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Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSG · Age 32
Availability51 games · 14 starts
Workload21.3 MPG · 1,088 minutes
Relative impactMEM #8 of 10 · SG #53 of 109
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #74–#357

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope ranked 245th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 298th, with below-average scoring efficiency limiting the result. Over about 1,100 minutes, he finished in the 39th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Kentavious Caldwell-Pope's impact

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

Impact Rate
38
27.4
Season Value
39
2.9

Scoring role

Usage
43
17.7%
True shooting
18
53.3%
3-point attempt rate
59
47.5%
Free-throw rate
40
21.9%

Creation and control

Assist rate
68
17.7%
Turnover avoidance
37
13.2%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
17
6.2%
Steal rate
70
1.9%
Block rate
19
0.7%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
37
−0.24
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
44
−0.19

Workload

Minutes per game
41
21.3
Games played
26
51
Total minutes
34
1,088

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

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 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 modelMEM32511,088-1.9127.4#2452.939thEstablished
2024–25ORL31772,279-1.3330.4#27130.544thStrong
2023–24DEN30762,402-1.2535.4#24036.548thStrong
2022–23DEN29762,381-0.6149.5#19267.463rdStrong
2021–22WAS28772,329-1.0839.1#23543.450thStrong
2020–21LAL27671,902-1.2133.7#24531.144thStrong
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateLAL26691,762-1.4331.0#24421.140thStrong
2018–19Historical Defense EstimateLAL25822,035-0.2356.8#16077.466thStrong
2017–18Historical Defense EstimateLAL24742,458+0.6870.4#108137.783rdStrong
2016–17Historical Defense EstimateDET23762,529+0.4769.7#111123.582ndStrong
2015–16Historical Defense EstimateDET22762,789-0.6148.5#18877.069thStrong
2014–15Historical Defense EstimateDET21822,587-0.9242.7#21354.158thStrong
2013–14Historical Defense EstimateDET20801,583-1.5529.9#24314.232ndStrong

Career movement

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope's career impact by season

Peak +0.68 in 2017–18 · 13 seasons · 28,124 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.

Kentavious Caldwell-PopeVernon Maxwell

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

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

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 Kentavious Caldwell-Pope ranks #245

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-0.06

Prior rank #298

02 · Multi-season RAPM+0.65

Current total -1.03 ±0.9
Split model · O -0.24 · D -0.19 = -0.42

03 · Bounded correction+0.21

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+0.15

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate27.4

27.7 unadjusted · 90% role factor · rank #245

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 -2.16 to +2.44. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
1%
Top 50 chance
5%
Top 100 chance
16%
80% rank range
#74#357
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 →