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De'Anthony Melton

De'Anthony Melton advanced stats and career rankings

RolePG · Age 27
Availability49 games · 24 starts
Workload23.0 MPG · 1,125 minutes
Relative impactGSW #7 of 12 · PG #29 of 70
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #45–#327

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, De'Anthony Melton ranked 134th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 257th, led by rebounding and shot blocking despite limited playmaking. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court impact was stronger than the box score indicated, lifting his overall rating. With only about 1,100 minutes, he finished in the 63rd percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives De'Anthony Melton's impact

395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
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Overall value

Impact Rate
66
56.0
Season Value
63
19.2

Scoring role

Usage
85
25.4%
True shooting
10
51.8%
3-point attempt rate
57
46.4%
Free-throw rate
44
22.9%

Creation and control

Assist rate
65
16.9%
Turnover avoidance
33
13.5%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
38
7.8%
Steal rate
98
3.3%
Block rate
58
1.6%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
87
+1.81
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
72
+0.78

Workload

Minutes per game
49
23.0
Games played
22
49
Total minutes
35
1,125

Farther right means more of the named trait, not automatically better basketball. Turnover avoidance reverses turnover rate. Lineup rows exclude players below the 1,000-possession lineup-sample floor.

Every season

De'Anthony Melton advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

SeasonTeamAgeGPMPEra-centered box impactImpact RateRate rankSeason ValueValue percentileEvidence
2025–26live modelGSW27491,125-1.2856.0#13419.263rdEstablished
2024–25GSW266121-5.67-9.1Limited
2023–24PHI25381,023+0.5067.0#12351.955thStrong
2022–23PHI24772,150+0.2362.7#14296.971stStrong
2021–22MEM23731,657+2.2286.5#53146.286thStrong
2020–21MEM22521,045+2.8689.4#40106.278thStrong
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateMEM21601,167+0.3259.9#14258.156thStrong
2018–19Historical Defense EstimatePHO2050984-1.7031.8#2526.231stEstablished

Career movement

De'Anthony Melton's career impact by season

Peak +2.86 in 2020–21 · 8 seasons · 9,272 minutes

The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. This is separate from the current lineup-context ranking.

Era-centered box impactMinutes
Across-era box estimateWorkload

Career comparison

Compare the shape, not the calendar

Align by NBA experience to compare season one with season one, or by age to compare players at the same stage of life.

De'Anthony MeltonMarcus Thornton

NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to De'Anthony Melton

The score compares era-centered box impact, peak, prime, workload, career length, position, and trajectory aligned by NBA experience. It describes career shape, not playing style or equal ability.

Why this rank?

Why De'Anthony Melton ranks #134

The current model starts with box production, checks it against multi-season lineup evidence, caps that correction, then accounts for how many minutes the player was trusted to play each game.

01 · Box-score prior+0.17

Prior rank #257

02 · Multi-season RAPM+2.65

Current total +2.70 ±1.0
Split model · O +1.81 · D +0.78 = +2.59

03 · Bounded correction+0.68

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+0.86

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate56.0

58.6 unadjusted · 92% role factor · rank #134

RAPM estimates lineup impact while controlling for the other nine players on the floor. The multi-season blend, current total model, and current offensive/defensive split are separate estimates, so they need not equal one another. hussEyquation uses the multi-season signal as a bounded correction, not as a standalone verdict.

What the point estimate meansLow precision

The model's 80% impact interval is -1.41 to +3.10. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
3%
Top 50 chance
12%
Top 100 chance
28%
80% rank range
#45#327
How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played. The career ranking rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →