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Illustrated portrait of NBA player Michael Porter Jr.

Michael Porter Jr.

Michael Porter Jr. advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSF · Age 27
Availability52 games · 52 starts
Workload32.5 MPG · 1,689 minutes
Relative impactBRK #1 of 12 · SF #4 of 68
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #10–#238

Bottom line · 2025–26

Michael Porter Jr. delivered an outstanding 2025–26 campaign, ranking 21st in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 15th, led by elite rebounding. Over about 1,700 minutes, he finished in the 91st percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Michael Porter Jr.'s impact

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

Impact Rate
95
92.8
Season Value
91
70.8

Scoring role

Usage
96
30.5%
True shooting
65
59.5%
3-point attempt rate
66
50.6%
Free-throw rate
49
23.7%

Creation and control

Assist rate
69
18.2%
Turnover avoidance
74
10.3%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
76
12.6%
Steal rate
49
1.6%
Block rate
19
0.7%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
96
+3.09
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
24
−0.93

Workload

Minutes per game
90
32.5
Games played
27
52
Total minutes
65
1,689

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

Michael Porter Jr. 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 modelBRK27521,689+4.3492.8#2170.891stEstablished
2024–25DEN26772,593-0.1756.4#17098.576thStrong
2023–24DEN25812,565+0.0959.2#152108.075thStrong
2022–23DEN24621,798+0.7169.6#11699.473rdStrong
2021–22DEN239265-6.65-25.1Limited
2020–21DEN22611,912+2.9990.2#37192.992ndStrong
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateDEN2155903+2.4487.2#4681.168thEstablished

Career movement

Michael Porter Jr.'s career impact by season

Peak +4.34 in 2025–26 · 7 seasons · 11,725 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.

Michael Porter Jr.Billy Knight

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 Michael Porter Jr. ranks #21

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+2.23

Prior rank #15

02 · Multi-season RAPM+1.66

Current total +2.65 ±0.9
Split model · O +3.09 · D -0.93 = +2.16

03 · Bounded correction-0.13

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+2.10

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate92.8

92.8 unadjusted · 100% role factor · rank #21

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 -0.11 to +4.36. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
26%
Top 50 chance
41%
Top 100 chance
61%
80% rank range
#10#238
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 →