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Desmond Bane

Desmond Bane advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSG · Age 27
Availability82 games · 82 starts
Workload33.6 MPG · 2,756 minutes
Relative impactORL #3 of 13 · SG #15 of 109
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceStrong

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #20–#307

Bottom line · 2025–26

Desmond Bane delivered an outstanding 2025–26 campaign, ranking 77th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 112th, led by high-volume, efficient scoring. Playing about 2,800 minutes, he finished in the 90th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Desmond Bane's impact

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

Impact Rate
81
73.0
Season Value
90
68.3

Scoring role

Usage
78
23.3%
True shooting
72
60.7%
3-point attempt rate
32
35.4%
Free-throw rate
65
28.7%

Creation and control

Assist rate
73
19.3%
Turnover avoidance
67
10.8%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
26
6.8%
Steal rate
40
1.5%
Block rate
43
1.2%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
83
+1.56
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
78
+1.07

Workload

Minutes per game
95
33.6
Games played
98
82
Total minutes
99
2,756

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

Desmond Bane 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 modelORL27822,756+1.0073.0#7768.390thStrong
2024–25MEM26692,205+1.9482.0#71187.288thStrong
2023–24MEM25421,443+4.3595.1#19187.488thStrong
2022–23MEM24581,841+3.5393.4#26214.591stStrong
2021–22MEM23762,266+2.9090.4#38231.993rdStrong
2020–21MEM22681,519-0.1355.2#16659.562ndStrong

Career movement

Desmond Bane's career impact by season

Peak +4.35 in 2023–24 · 6 seasons · 12,030 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.

Desmond BaneAnthony Edwards

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

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to Desmond Bane

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 Desmond Bane ranks #77

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+1.01

Prior rank #112

02 · Multi-season RAPM+1.71

Current total +2.80 ±0.9
Split model · O +1.56 · D +1.07 = +2.64

03 · Bounded correction+0.21

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+1.22

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate73.0

73.0 unadjusted · 100% role factor · rank #77

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 -1.04 to +3.49. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
13%
Top 50 chance
23%
Top 100 chance
40%
80% rank range
#20#307
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 →