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Illustrated portrait of NBA player Domantas Sabonis

Domantas Sabonis

Domantas Sabonis advanced stats and career rankings

RoleC · Age 29
Availability19 games · 15 starts
Workload29.7 MPG · 564 minutes
Relative impactSAC #1 of 13 · C #23 of 72
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #23–#310

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Domantas Sabonis ranked 87th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 90th, led by elite rebounding despite costly turnovers. With only about 600 minutes, he finished in the 54th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Domantas Sabonis's impact

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

Impact Rate
78
69.5
Season Value
54
12.9

Scoring role

Usage
76
23.0%
True shooting
61
59.0%
3-point attempt rate
12
12.2%
Free-throw rate
80
34.8%

Creation and control

Assist rate
79
21.3%
Turnover avoidance
9
16.7%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
99
21.4%
Steal rate
40
1.5%
Block rate
19
0.7%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
32
−0.43
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
19
−1.19

Workload

Minutes per game
78
29.7
Games played
1
19
Total minutes
7
564

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

Domantas Sabonis 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 modelSAC2919564+1.6169.5#8712.954thEstablished
2024–25SAC28702,429+4.9996.6#14347.198thStrong
2023–24SAC27822,928+6.5598.6#6515.199thStrong
2022–23SAC26792,736+5.6696.8#13437.899thStrong
2021–22IND/SAC25622,136+4.0295.1#20263.896thStrong
2020–21IND24622,231+4.0694.6#21286.396thStrong
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateIND23622,159+3.4291.8#30241.195thStrong
2018–19Historical Defense EstimateIND22741,838+3.0992.4#29191.290thStrong
2017–18Historical Defense EstimateIND21741,810-0.7644.6#20144.951stStrong
2016–17Historical Defense EstimateOKC20811,632-4.532.2#356-84.11stStrong

Career movement

Domantas Sabonis's career impact by season

Peak +6.55 in 2023–24 · 10 seasons · 20,463 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.

Domantas SabonisDeMarcus Cousins

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

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to Domantas Sabonis

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 Domantas Sabonis ranks #87

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+1.23

Prior rank #90

02 · Multi-season RAPM+0.80

Current total -1.49 ±0.9
Split model · O -0.43 · D -1.19 = -1.62

03 · Bounded correction-0.09

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+1.14

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate69.5

69.6 unadjusted · 100% role factor · rank #87

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 -1.09 to +3.41. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
11%
Top 50 chance
22%
Top 100 chance
39%
80% rank range
#23#310
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 →