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Jaden McDaniels

Jaden McDaniels advanced stats and career rankings

RolePF · Age 25
Availability73 games · 73 starts
Workload31.7 MPG · 2,316 minutes
Relative impactMIN #8 of 10 · PF #52 of 76
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceStrong

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #59–#359

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Jaden McDaniels ranked 255th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 213th, led by strong scoring efficiency despite weak rebounding. Playing about 2,300 minutes, he finished in the 37th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Jaden McDaniels's impact

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

Impact Rate
36
25.9
Season Value
37
1.9

Scoring role

Usage
50
18.5%
True shooting
77
61.1%
3-point attempt rate
24
30.9%
Free-throw rate
40
21.8%

Creation and control

Assist rate
46
12.2%
Turnover avoidance
41
12.9%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
33
7.4%
Steal rate
57
1.7%
Block rate
79
2.7%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
39
−0.14
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
44
−0.19

Workload

Minutes per game
87
31.7
Games played
80
73
Total minutes
91
2,316

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

Jaden McDaniels 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 modelMIN25732,316-0.7525.9#2551.937thStrong
2024–25MIN24822,614-1.0037.4#24453.058thStrong
2023–24MIN23722,105-3.785.4#351-75.91stStrong
2022–23MIN22792,416-1.3235.7#24434.551stStrong
2021–22MIN21701,803-2.839.4#349-31.53rdStrong
2020–21MIN20631,511-1.8525.8#2744.727thStrong

Career movement

Jaden McDaniels's career impact by season

Peak -0.75 in 2025–26 · 6 seasons · 12,765 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.

Jaden McDanielsRui Hachimura

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

Similar career arcs

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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 Jaden McDaniels ranks #255

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+0.37

Prior rank #213

02 · Multi-season RAPM-0.83

Current total -0.69 ±0.9
Split model · O -0.14 · D -0.19 = -0.33

03 · Bounded correction-0.30

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+0.07

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate25.9

25.9 unadjusted · 100% role factor · rank #255

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 -2.19 to +2.37. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
4%
Top 50 chance
8%
Top 100 chance
19%
80% rank range
#59#359
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 →