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Tolu Smith
Tolu Smith stats, teams and career impact
CareerCareer averages · 4.4 PPG · 3.6 RPG · 0.8 APG
- Position
- Power forward
- 2025–26 team
- Detroit Pistons
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 11 in (211 cm) · 254 lb (115 kg)
- Born
- July 26, 2000 (26 yrs old)
- College
- Western Kentucky, Mississippi State
- NBA seasons
- 2 seasons · 2024–25 to 2025–26
Selected season2025–26 · DET · 15 games · 137 minutes
- PPG
- 3.7
- RPG
- 3.3
- APG
- 0.9
- Not ranked 15 games · 137 minutes
- Not ranked
Impact Rate Rank
Value contribution percentile
Career overview
Why Tolu Smith is not in the all-time ranking
Tolu Smith does not have an official all-time career rank because no season reached the 450-minute ranking floor. His cumulative Career Value still ranks #3228.
No season reached 450 minutes
16 games · Career Value Rank #3228
Head to head
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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Detroit Pistons
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 53.3%FG%
- Three-point
- —3P%
- Free throw
- 66.7%FT%
16 career games · 159 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
Tolu Smith 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 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 0.9 | -6.48 | DET | 15 | 0 | 9.1 | 50.0% | — | 66.7% | — | -12.7 |
| 2024–25 | 14.0 | 8.0 | 0.0 | -12.33 | DET | 1 | 0 | 22.0 | 66.7% | — | 66.7% | — | -4.7 |
| Career | 4.4 | 3.6 | 0.8 | — | DET | 16 | — | 9.9 | 53.3% | — | 66.7% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
RolePF · Age 25
Availability15 games · 0 starts
Workload9.1 MPG · 137 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.
137 minutes · 450 required
137 minutes · 450 required
No season reached the 450-minute floor
Observed box inputs · 137 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
Tolu Smith played 137 minutes in 2025–26, short of the 450-minute minimum. He is not ranked in Impact Rate or value contribution.
Every season
Tolu Smith 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 —
137 minutes · not ranked
Career movement
Tolu Smith's box impact by season
Peak box impact -6.48 points per 100 possessions in 2025–26 · 2 seasons · 159 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 2 seasons
Both players are limited to their first 2 seasons. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.
Tolu SmithWill Perdue
| NBA season | Tolu Smith | Will Perdue |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | -12.3 | -8.8 |
| 2 | -6.5 | -6.1 |
NBA season number · first 2 seasons only
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Tolu Smith
The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 2 seasons and 2,352 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.
C · All-Time Career #1466
Will Perdue
96.7start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: close
Limited evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 1989–90PF · All-Time Career #3075Johnny O'Bryant
96start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: closeTrend: very closeAge: closeRole: very close
Limited evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 2015–16C · All-Time Career #1279Mark West
95.5start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: closeTrend: closeAge: very closeRole: close
Limited evidence · first 2 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 2025–26 ↔ 1984–85Impact 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 →