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Jamal Cain
Jamal Cain stats, teams and career impact
#2909 all-timeCareer averages · 5.0 PPG · 2.1 RPG · 0.6 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
- Position
- Small forward
- 2025–26 team
- Orlando Magic
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) · 191 lb (87 kg)
- Born
- March 20, 1999 (27 yrs old)
- College
- Marquette, Oakland
- NBA seasons
- 4 seasons · 2022–23 to 2025–26
Selected season2025–26 · ORL · 40 games · 486 minutes
- PPG
- 5.4
- RPG
- 1.9
- APG
- 0.7
- #250 of 395 40 games · 486 minutes
- 36th percentile
Impact Rate Rank
Season Value percentile
Career overview
Why Jamal Cain currently ranks #2909 all time
Jamal Cain ranks #2909 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #312.7. His full-career value already ranks #2134 after 4 seasons, and his all-time position can still rise.
450+ minutes required per season
121 games · Career Value Rank #2134
Head to head
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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Miami Heat, New Orleans Pelicans, and Orlando Magic
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 46.8%FG%
- Three-point
- 35.3%3P%
- Free throw
- 76.6%FT%
121 career games · 1,487 minutes
Sources and updateConventional stats and measurements: Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 13, 2026. hussEyquation ranking data through 2025–26. Life dates: Wikidata; conflicting dates checked against Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 17, 2026.
Traditional box score
Jamal Cain stats by season
Start with scoring and impact, then switch views for shooting or the full advanced picture. Career percentages use total makes and attempts.
Box impact is an estimate in points per 100 possessions, not the 0–100 Impact Rate score. Zero is league average; higher is better. Rate rank is a league place: No. 1 is best.
Swipe for PPG · RPG · APG · Box impact · Team · G · GS · MPG →
| pts/100 · higher is better | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 5.4 | 1.9 | 0.7 | -1.43 | ORL | 40 | 1 | 12.2 | 48.7% | 38.4% | 84.8% | #250 | 1.1 |
| 2024–25 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 0.6 | -1.71 | NOP | 37 | 0 | 13.6 | 43.0% | 32.5% | 68.0% | #295 | 3.0 |
| 2023–24 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 0.4 | -4.40 | MIA | 26 | 1 | 10.0 | 43.0% | 35.5% | 78.3% | — | -12.4 |
| 2022–23 | 5.4 | 2.9 | 0.7 | -1.55 | MIA | 18 | 0 | 13.3 | 56.1% | 35.0% | 77.3% | — | 2.2 |
| Career | 5.0 | 2.1 | 0.6 | — | MIA/NOP/ORL | 121 | — | 12.3 | 46.8% | 35.3% | 76.6% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
RoleSF · Age 26
Availability40 games · 1 starts
Workload12.2 MPG · 486 minutes
Relative impactORL #9 of 13 · SF #42 of 68
UpdatedOct 6, 2026
What these measures mean
- Box impact
- Estimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average, from the historical box-score model. Zero is league average; higher is better. Historical defense estimates are included where labeled. This is not the live model's lineup-adjusted estimate.
- Impact Rate
- A 0–100 score comparing performance within one season. Higher is better. This is a score, not points per possession.
- Impact estimate
- The season model's final estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, before conversion to the 0–100 Impact Rate score. It includes lineup evidence where available. Zero is league average; higher is better.
- Impact Rate rank
- The player's place among qualified players in that season's Impact Rate ranking. No. 1 is best. This is a rank, not an impact score.
- Value contribution / Season Value
- Completed seasons use a fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. The live season instead uses Season Value, combining that season's impact with workload.
- Career Impact Rank
- An all-time rank weighted toward the player's best three, five, and ten seasons.
40 games · 486 minutes · 26.4 / 100 · higher score is better · No. 1 is the best rank
1.1 total value · 395 qualified players
Career Composite 333.6 · lower is better · 4 seasons
Ranking certainty: Wide, likely #96–#357
- Impact Rate
- 0–100 score within one season. Higher is better.
- Box impact
- Estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, from the historical model. Zero is average; higher is better.
- Impact estimate
- The live model's final estimate in points per 100 possessions, including lineup evidence. It can differ from box impact. Higher is better.
Bottom line · 2025–26
In 2025–26, Jamal Cain ranked 250th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 266th, led by strong scoring efficiency. With only nearly 500 minutes, he finished in the 36th percentile for total season value.
2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Jamal Cain's impact
395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
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Overall value
Impact Rate
0–100 score · higher is better
26.4 / 100Season Value
36
1.1Scoring role
Usage
35
16.6%True shooting
84
62.4%3-point attempt rate
61
48.0%Free-throw rate
69
30.3%Creation and control
Assist rate
22
8.6%Turnover avoidance
79
9.9%Possession stats
Rebound rate
52
9.0%Steal rate
15
1.1%Block rate
19
0.7%Lineup signal
Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
87
+1.83 pts/100Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
43
−0.20 pts/100Workload
Minutes per game
6
12.2Games played
11
40Total minutes
2
486A 0–100 score comparing performance within one season. Higher is better. This is a score, not points per possession. The other bars show percentiles in the selected comparison group. Farther right means more of the named trait, not automatically better basketball. Turnover avoidance reverses turnover rate. Lineup figures are points per 100 possessions; higher is better. Lineup rows exclude players below the 1,000-possession lineup-sample floor.
Ranking editions
How the ranking changed
Both editions use the source snapshot dated Jul 14, 2026. These are model-version changes, not results from new games. Each edition keeps its original published numbers.
26.7 Impact Rate · 486 MP
Ranking edition: Jul 21, 2026
First snapshot26.4 Impact Rate · 486 MP
Ranking edition: Oct 6, 2026
↓1 since priorEvery season
Jamal Cain advanced stats by season
Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.
More advanced statsAge, minutes, impact, rank, value and data coverage
Career movement
Jamal Cain's box impact by season
Peak box impact -1.43 points per 100 possessions in 2025–26 · 4 seasons · 1,487 minutes
Box impact estimates points per 100 possessions above each season's league average. Zero is average; higher is better. Rank labels show Impact Rate league places, not ranks on this chart's box-impact scale.
Box impact · points per 100 possessionsMinutes
Player-specific impact scaleWorkload
Early-career comparison
Compare the first 4 seasons
Both players are limited to their first 4 seasons. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.
Jamal CainJerry Chambers
| NBA season | Jamal Cain | Jerry Chambers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | -1.5 | -2.2 |
| 2 | -4.4 | -4.5 |
| 3 | -1.7 | -1.9 |
| 4 | -1.4 | -3.0 |
NBA season number · first 4 seasons only
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Jamal Cain
The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 4 seasons and 1,881 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.
SF · All-Time Career #1276
Jerry Chambers
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
Limited evidence · first 4 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 1970–71PF · All-Time Career #1935Don Reid
99.8start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
Limited evidence · first 4 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 1997–98PF · All-Time Career #1995Russ Schoene
99.8start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
Limited evidence · first 4 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 1987–88Why this rank?
Why Jamal Cain ranks #250
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.
Steps 1–4 use points per 100 possessions. Step 5 converts the final estimate to the 0–100 Impact Rate score. Higher is better on both scales; they are not the same number.
Prior rank #266
Current total +1.58 ±0.9
Split model · O +1.83 · D -0.20 = +1.63
Maximum ±1.25
Points per 100 possessions · higher is better
Higher is better · 26.7 before the MPG adjustment · rank #250
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.
Ranking certaintyWide
The model's 80% impact interval is -2.13 to +2.38. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.
- Top 25 chance
- 0%
- Top 50 chance
- 1%
- Top 100 chance
- 11%
- 80% rank range
- #96–#357
Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played; completed player-profile rows instead show each season's fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. Career Impact Rank 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 →