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Max Strus
Max Strus stats, teams and career impact
#2000 all-timeCareer averages · 10.4 PPG · 3.5 RPG · 2.3 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
- Position
- Small forward
- 2025–26 team
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) · 215 lb (98 kg)
- Born
- March 28, 1996 (30 yrs old)
- College
- Lewis (IL), DePaul
- NBA seasons
- 7 seasons · 2019–20 to 2025–26
Selected season2025–26 · CLE · 12 games · 288 minutes
- PPG
- 11.2
- RPG
- 5.4
- APG
- 2.0
- #176 in 2021–22 12 games · 288 minutes
- #2000 all-time
Impact Rate Rank
Value contribution percentile
Career overview
Why Max Strus currently ranks #2000 all time
Max Strus ranks #2000 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #188.0. His full-career value already ranks #1215 after 7 seasons, and his all-time position can still rise.
450+ minutes required per season
321 games · Career Value Rank #1215
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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat, and Cleveland Cavaliers
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 42.7%FG%
- Three-point
- 37.0%3P%
- Free throw
- 81.1%FT%
321 career games · 8,172 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
Max Strus 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 | 11.2 | 5.4 | 2.0 | -2.30 | CLE | 12 | 5 | 24.0 | 44.3% | 40.2% | 77.8% | — | -1.8 |
| 2024–25 | 9.4 | 4.3 | 3.2 | -0.25 | CLE | 50 | 37 | 25.5 | 44.2% | 38.6% | 82.4% | #177 | 46.4 |
| 2023–24 | 12.2 | 4.8 | 4.0 | -0.82 | CLE | 70 | 70 | 32.0 | 41.8% | 35.1% | 79.4% | #211 | 53.4 |
| 2022–23 | 11.5 | 3.2 | 2.1 | -1.53 | MIA | 80 | 33 | 28.4 | 41.0% | 35.0% | 87.6% | #259 | 21.7 |
| 2021–22 | 10.6 | 3.0 | 1.4 | -0.14 | MIA | 68 | 16 | 23.3 | 44.1% | 41.0% | 79.2% | #176 | 58.9 |
| 2020–21 | 6.1 | 1.1 | 0.6 | -1.08 | MIA | 39 | 0 | 13.0 | 45.5% | 33.8% | 66.7% | #235 | 9.4 |
| 2019–20 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | -12.96 | CHI | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 66.7% | 0.0% | 100.0% | — | -1.4 |
| Career | 10.4 | 3.5 | 2.3 | — | CHI/CLE/MIA | 321 | — | 25.5 | 42.7% | 37.0% | 81.1% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
RoleSF · Age 29
Availability12 games · 5 starts
Workload24.0 MPG · 288 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.
288 minutes · 450 required
288 minutes · 450 required
Career Composite 216.6 · lower is better · 7 seasons
Observed box inputs · 288 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
Max Strus played 288 minutes in 2025–26, short of the 450-minute minimum. He is not ranked in Impact Rate or value contribution.
Every season
Max Strus 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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | CLE | 29 | 12 | 288 | -2.30 | — | — | -1.8 | — | Limited |
| 2024–25 | CLE | 28 | 50 | 1,273 | -0.25 | 54.6 | #177 | 46.4 | 54th | Broad |
| 2023–24 | CLE | 27 | 70 | 2,239 | -0.82 | 43.2 | #211 | 53.4 | 56th | Broad |
| 2022–23 | MIA | 26 | 80 | 2,272 | -1.53 | 31.7 | #259 | 21.7 | 41st | Broad |
| 2021–22 | MIA | 25 | 68 | 1,587 | -0.14 | 54.4 | #176 | 58.9 | 58th | Broad |
| 2020–21 | MIA | 24 | 39 | 507 | -1.08 | 36.4 | #235 | 9.4 | 29th | Standard |
| 2019–20Historical Defense Estimate | CHI | 23 | 2 | 6 | -12.96 | — | — | -1.4 | — | Limited |
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 —
288 minutes · not ranked
Career movement
Max Strus's box impact by season
Peak box impact -0.14 points per 100 possessions in 2021–22 · 7 seasons · 8,172 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
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Career comparison
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Max StrusFred Jones
| NBA season | Max Strus | Fred Jones |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | -13.0 | -7.9 |
| 2 | -1.1 | 0.1 |
| 3 | -0.1 | -0.1 |
| 4 | -1.5 | -1.4 |
| 5 | -0.8 | -2.3 |
| 6 | -0.2 | -1.2 |
| 7 | -2.3 | -1.1 |
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