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Jalen Pickett

Jalen Pickett advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSG · Age 26
Availability50 games · 18 starts
Workload16.1 MPG · 807 minutes
Relative impactDEN #9 of 13 · SG #67 of 109
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #100–#363

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Jalen Pickett ranked 283rd in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 324th, led by strong passing. Over about 800 minutes, he finished in the 29th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Jalen Pickett's impact

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

Impact Rate
28
20.1
Season Value
29
-1.9

Scoring role

Usage
21
14.8%
True shooting
24
54.1%
3-point attempt rate
74
54.7%
Free-throw rate
4
8.2%

Creation and control

Assist rate
70
18.4%
Turnover avoidance
46
12.4%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
40
7.9%
Steal rate
3
0.8%
Block rate
13
0.6%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
16
−1.28
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
65
+0.55

Workload

Minutes per game
18
16.1
Games played
24
50
Total minutes
17
807

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

Jalen Pickett 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 modelDEN2650807-2.4320.1#283-1.929thEstablished
2024–25DEN2549666-1.5128.1#2806.825thEstablished
2023–24DEN2427122-7.88-14.5Limited

Career movement

Jalen Pickett's career impact by season

Peak -1.51 in 2024–25 · 3 seasons · 1,595 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 3 seasons

Only the first 3 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Jalen PickettLaBradford Smith

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

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Jalen Pickett

The score compares the first 3 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

Why this rank?

Why Jalen Pickett ranks #283

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-0.25

Prior rank #324

02 · Multi-season RAPM+0.28

Current total +0.10 ±0.9
Split model · O -1.28 · D +0.55 = -0.72

03 · Bounded correction+0.16

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate-0.09

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate20.1

20.1 unadjusted · 85% role factor · rank #283

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 -2.32 to +2.12. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
0%
Top 50 chance
2%
Top 100 chance
10%
80% rank range
#100#363
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 →