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Nique Clifford

Nique Clifford advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSG · Age 23
Availability75 games · 28 starts
Workload25.1 MPG · 1,882 minutes
Relative impactSAC #10 of 13 · SG #71 of 109
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #79–#364

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Nique Clifford ranked 292nd in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 356th, led by strong rebounding despite costly turnovers. After adjusting for teammates and opponents, his on-court impact was stronger than the box score indicated, lifting his overall rating. Over about 1,900 minutes, he finished in the 20th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Nique Clifford's impact

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

Impact Rate
26
18.7
Season Value
20
-6.3

Scoring role

Usage
39
17.0%
True shooting
7
50.5%
3-point attempt rate
40
38.8%
Free-throw rate
24
16.3%

Creation and control

Assist rate
51
13.0%
Turnover avoidance
15
15.4%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
46
8.4%
Steal rate
57
1.7%
Block rate
43
1.2%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
58
+0.43
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
70
+0.76

Workload

Minutes per game
57
25.1
Games played
84
75
Total minutes
75
1,882

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

Nique Clifford 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 modelSAC23751,882-3.2918.7#292-6.320thEstablished

Career movement

Nique Clifford's career impact by season

Peak -3.29 in 2025–26 · 1 seasons · 1,882 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

Early-career comparison

Compare the first 1 seasons

Only the first 1 NBA seasons are compared, so this is a similarity of starts—not a prediction of the full career.

Nique CliffordA.J. English

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

Similar starts

Players with starts similar to Nique Clifford

The score compares the first 1 seasons by impact, workload, position, and trajectory. It does not claim the careers will finish alike.

Why this rank?

Why Nique Clifford ranks #292

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-0.56

Prior rank #356

02 · Multi-season RAPM+0.97

Current total +0.97 ±1.0
Split model · O +0.43 · D +0.76 = +1.19

03 · Bounded correction+0.43

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate-0.13

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate18.7

18.7 unadjusted · 95% role factor · rank #292

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 -2.34 to +2.13. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
1%
Top 50 chance
5%
Top 100 chance
14%
80% rank range
#79#364
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 →