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Kobe Bufkin
Kobe Bufkin stats, teams and career impact
CareerCareer averages · 4.2 PPG · 1.6 RPG · 1.3 APG
- Position
- Shooting guard
- 2025–26 team
- Los Angeles Lakers
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) · 195 lb (88 kg)
- Born
- September 21, 2003 (23 yrs old)
- College
- Michigan
- NBA seasons
- 3 seasons · 2023–24 to 2025–26
Selected season2025–26 · LAL · 16 games · 119 minutes
- PPG
- 2.9
- RPG
- 0.8
- APG
- 0.6
- Not ranked 16 games · 119 minutes
- Not ranked
Impact Rate Rank
Value contribution percentile
Career overview
Why Kobe Bufkin is not in the all-time ranking
Kobe Bufkin does not have an official all-time career rank because no season reached the 450-minute ranking floor. His cumulative Career Value still ranks #4230.
No season reached 450 minutes
43 games · Career Value Rank #4230
Head to head
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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Atlanta Hawks and Los Angeles Lakers
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 35.4%FG%
- Three-point
- 21.2%3P%
- Free throw
- 73.7%FT%
43 career games · 439 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
Kobe Bufkin 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 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.6 | -10.87 | LAL | 16 | 1 | 7.4 | 30.0% | 19.2% | 91.7% | — | -21.6 |
| 2024–25 | 5.3 | 2.1 | 1.7 | -8.01 | ATL | 10 | 0 | 12.4 | 38.3% | 21.1% | 72.2% | — | -15.9 |
| 2023–24 | 4.8 | 1.9 | 1.6 | -6.87 | ATL | 17 | 0 | 11.5 | 37.0% | 22.5% | 50.0% | — | -19.9 |
| Career | 4.2 | 1.6 | 1.3 | — | ATL/LAL | 43 | — | 10.2 | 35.4% | 21.2% | 73.7% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
RoleSG · Age 22
Availability16 games · 1 starts
Workload7.4 MPG · 119 minutes
Relative impactWithin-season ranking
UpdatedArchived season
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.
119 minutes · 450 required
119 minutes · 450 required
No season reached the 450-minute floor
Observed box inputs · 119 minutes
- 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.
Bottom line · 2025–26
Kobe Bufkin played 119 minutes in 2025–26, short of the 450-minute minimum. He is not ranked in Impact Rate or value contribution.
Every season
Kobe Bufkin advanced stats by season
Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.
Why this rank?
How the across-era box estimate is built
Archived seasons use the published Raw BPM reconstruction and remove that season's league mean. Lineup context is not retroactively invented.
Published box-score coefficients
Season mean —
119 minutes · not ranked
Career movement
Kobe Bufkin's box impact by season
Peak box impact -6.87 points per 100 possessions in 2023–24 · 3 seasons · 439 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 3 seasons
Both players are limited to their first 3 seasons. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.
Kobe BufkinEddie Lee Wilkins
| NBA season | Kobe Bufkin | Eddie Lee Wilkins |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | -6.9 | -5.0 |
| 2 | -8.0 | -7.0 |
| 3 | -10.9 | -8.4 |
NBA season number · first 3 seasons only
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Kobe Bufkin
The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 3 seasons and 2,104 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.
C · All-Time Career #2409
Eddie Lee Wilkins
92.3start similarity percentile
Impact: closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: closeRole: different
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90.3start similarity percentile
Impact: closeWorkload: closeTrend: closeAge: closeRole: very close
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89.6start similarity percentile
Impact: closeWorkload: closeTrend: closeAge: very closeRole: very close
Limited evidence · first 3 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2023–24 ↔ 2022–23Impact 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 →