45.3 score · 85% MPG role factor
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Dru Smith
Dru Smith advanced stats and career rankings
RoleSG · Age 28
Availability70 games · 1 starts
Workload16.3 MPG · 1,141 minutes
Relative impactMIA #8 of 12 · SG #37 of 109
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
13.7 total value · 395 qualified players
55.8 all-time composite · 4 seasons
Low ranking precision · Likely rank #69–#340
Bottom line · 2025–26
In 2025–26, Dru Smith ranked 171st in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 79th, led by elite steal creation despite below-average scoring efficiency. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court offense was weaker than the box score indicated, lowering his overall rating. With only about 1,100 minutes, he finished in the 54th percentile for total season value.
2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Dru Smith's impact
395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
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Overall value
Impact Rate
57
45.3Season Value
54
13.7Scoring role
Usage
25
15.2%True shooting
17
53.2%3-point attempt rate
42
39.7%Free-throw rate
74
32.3%Creation and control
Assist rate
75
20.0%Turnover avoidance
41
12.9%Possession stats
Rebound rate
40
7.9%Steal rate
100
4.1%Block rate
58
1.6%Lineup signal
Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
2
−2.55Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
71
+0.77Workload
Minutes per game
18
16.3Games played
72
70Total minutes
36
1,141Farther 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
Dru Smith advanced stats by season
Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.
Career movement
Dru Smith's career impact by season
Peak +1.90 in 2025–26 · 4 seasons · 1,698 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
Early-career comparison
Compare the first 4 seasons
Only the first 4 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.
Dru SmithJustin Champagnie
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Dru Smith
The score compares the first 4 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.
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87%start match
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85%start match
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85%start match
84% season match · 2025–26 ↔ 2010–11PG · All-Time Career #1375Ryan Rollins
85%start match
80% season match · 2025–26 ↔ 2024–25SG · All-Time Career #1553Keon Ellis
84%start match
88% season match · 2025–26 ↔ 2023–24SG · All-Time Career #531Tommy Kron
83%start match
86% season match · 2025–26 ↔ 1968–69Why this rank?
Why Dru Smith ranks #171
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.
Prior rank #79
Current total -2.68 ±0.9
Split model · O -2.55 · D +0.77 = -1.78
Maximum ±0.75
Before the within-season scale
48.9 unadjusted · 85% role factor · rank #171
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 -1.66 to +2.83. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.
- Top 25 chance
- 0%
- Top 50 chance
- 5%
- Top 100 chance
- 19%
- 80% rank range
- #69–#340
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 →