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Kyle Kuzma

Kyle Kuzma advanced stats and career rankings

RolePF · Age 30
Availability69 games · 43 starts
Workload26.2 MPG · 1,806 minutes
Relative impactMIL #11 of 13 · PF #70 of 76
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #106–#376

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Kyle Kuzma ranked 347th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 260th, led by strong passing despite costly turnovers. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court impact was weaker than the box score indicated, lowering his overall rating. Over about 1,800 minutes, he finished in the 5th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Kyle Kuzma's impact

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

Impact Rate
12
7.6
Season Value
5
-23.1

Scoring role

Usage
71
21.8%
True shooting
55
58.1%
3-point attempt rate
30
34.7%
Free-throw rate
60
27.0%

Creation and control

Assist rate
58
15.5%
Turnover avoidance
35
13.4%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
58
9.8%
Steal rate
29
1.3%
Block rate
54
1.5%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
30
−0.53
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
17
−1.26

Workload

Minutes per game
61
26.2
Games played
68
69
Total minutes
72
1,806

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

Kyle Kuzma 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 modelMIL30691,806-1.357.6#347-23.15thEstablished
2024–25MIL/WAS29651,936-4.572.3#380-103.90thStrong
2023–24WAS28702,281+0.2661.6#143110.376thStrong
2022–23WAS27642,239-1.6029.6#26718.437thStrong
2021–22WAS26662,204+0.2260.9#15199.074thStrong
2020–21LAL25681,954-1.4130.4#25723.640thStrong
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateLAL24611,526-2.7415.3#299-23.812thStrong
2018–19Historical Defense EstimateLAL23702,314-1.2440.8#21937.953rdStrong
2017–18Historical Defense EstimateLAL22772,401-0.4249.6#18379.066thStrong

Career movement

Kyle Kuzma's career impact by season

Peak +0.26 in 2023–24 · 9 seasons · 18,661 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.

Kyle KuzmaDorian Finney-Smith

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

Similar career arcs

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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 Kyle Kuzma ranks #347

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+0.15

Prior rank #260

02 · Multi-season RAPM-2.84

Current total -2.15 ±1.0
Split model · O -0.53 · D -1.26 = -1.78

03 · Bounded correction-0.75

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate-0.60

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate7.6

7.6 unadjusted · 96% role factor · rank #347

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 -2.83 to +1.65. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
1%
Top 50 chance
3%
Top 100 chance
9%
80% rank range
#106#376
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 →