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Javon Small
Javon Small stats, teams and career impact
#2823 all-timeCareer averages · 9.7 PPG · 3.1 RPG · 3.7 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
- Position
- Point guard
- 2025–26 team
- Memphis Grizzlies
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) · 190 lb (86 kg)
- Born
- December 19, 2002 (23 yrs old)
- College
- East Carolina University, Oklahoma State, West Virginia
- NBA seasons
- 1 season · 2025–26 to 2025–26
Selected season2025–26 · MEM · 41 games · 830 minutes
- PPG
- 9.7
- RPG
- 3.1
- APG
- 3.7
- #101 of 395 41 games · 830 minutes
- 63rd percentile
Impact Rate Rank
Season Value percentile
Career overview
Why Javon Small currently ranks #2823 all time
Javon Small ranks #2823 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #297.7. His full-career value already ranks #1506 after 1 seasons, and his all-time position can still rise.
450+ minutes required per season
41 games · Career Value Rank #1506
Head to head
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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Memphis Grizzlies
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 46.5%FG%
- Three-point
- 42.3%3P%
- Free throw
- 82.9%FT%
41 career games · 830 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
Javon Small 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 | 9.7 | 3.1 | 3.7 | +2.45 | MEM | 41 | 12 | 20.2 | 46.5% | 42.3% | 82.9% | #101 | 19.4 |
| Career | 9.7 | 3.1 | 3.7 | — | MEM | 41 | — | 20.2 | 46.5% | 42.3% | 82.9% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
RolePG · Age 23
Availability41 games · 12 starts
Workload20.2 MPG · 830 minutes
Relative impactMEM #3 of 10 · PG #23 of 70
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.
41 games · 830 minutes · 65.1 / 100 · higher score is better · No. 1 is the best rank
19.4 total value · 395 qualified players
Career Composite 323.2 · lower is better · 1 season
Ranking certainty: Wide, likely #43–#312
- 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, Javon Small ranked 101st in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 50th, led by elite scoring efficiency. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court impact was weaker than the box score indicated, lowering his overall rating. With only about 800 minutes, he finished in the 63rd percentile for total season value.
2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Javon Small'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
65.1 / 100Season Value
63
19.4Scoring role
Usage
56
19.0%True shooting
77
61.1%3-point attempt rate
63
49.3%Free-throw rate
64
28.5%Creation and control
Assist rate
87
26.1%Turnover avoidance
21
14.7%Possession stats
Rebound rate
44
8.3%Steal rate
70
1.9%Block rate
34
1.0%Lineup signal
Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
64
+0.61 pts/100Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
22
−1.03 pts/100Workload
Minutes per game
35
20.2Games played
12
41Total minutes
19
830A 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.
58.5 Impact Rate · 830 MP
Ranking edition: Jul 21, 2026
First snapshot65.1 Impact Rate · 830 MP
Ranking edition: Oct 6, 2026
↑22 since priorEvery season
Javon Small 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
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| pts/100 · higher is better | 0–100 · higher is better | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26live model | MEM | 23 | 41 | 830 | +2.45 | 65.1 | #101 | 19.4 | 63rd | Standard |
Career movement
Javon Small's box impact by season
Peak box impact +2.45 points per 100 possessions in 2025–26 · 1 season · 830 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 1 season
Both players are limited to their first 1 season. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.
Javon SmallBilly Kenville
| NBA season | Javon Small | Billy Kenville |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
NBA season number · first 1 season only
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Javon Small
The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 1 season and 2,435 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.
PG · All-Time Career #175
Billy Kenville
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
Medium evidence · first 1 seasonClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 1953–54PG · All-Time Career #1574Jose Alvarado
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
High evidence · first 1 seasonClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 2021–22PG · All-Time Career #671Spud Webb
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
High evidence · first 1 seasonClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 1985–86Why this rank?
Why Javon Small ranks #101
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 #50
Current total -0.54 ±0.9
Split model · O +0.61 · D -1.03 = -0.42
Maximum ±1.25
Points per 100 possessions · higher is better
Higher is better · 70.0 before the MPG adjustment · rank #101
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 -1.13 to +3.43. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.
- Top 25 chance
- 2%
- Top 50 chance
- 13%
- Top 100 chance
- 32%
- 80% rank range
- #43–#312
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 →