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Trae Young
Trae Young stats, teams and career impact
#384 all-timeCareer averages · 25.1 PPG · 3.4 RPG · 9.8 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
- Position
- Point guard
- 2025–26 teams
- Atlanta Hawks and Washington Wizards
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) · 164 lb (74 kg)
- Born
- September 19, 1998 (28 yrs old)
- College
- Oklahoma
- NBA seasons
- 8 seasons · 2018–19 to 2025–26
Selected season2025–26 · ATL/WAS · 15 games · 384 minutes
- PPG
- 17.9
- RPG
- 2.0
- APG
- 8.0
- #11 in 2021–22 15 games · 384 minutes
- #384 all-time
Career overview
Why Trae Young currently ranks #384 all time
Trae Young ranks #384 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #18.3. His full-career value already ranks #235 after 8 seasons, and his all-time position can still rise.
450+ minutes required per season
498 games · Career Value Rank #235
NBA honors4× All-Star · All-NBAContext only; honors are not model inputs.
Head to head
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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Atlanta Hawks and Washington Wizards
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 43.3%FG%
- Three-point
- 35.2%3P%
- Free throw
- 87.2%FT%
498 career games · 17,006 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
Trae Young 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 | 17.9 | 2.0 | 8.0 | +2.83 | ATL/WAS | 15 | 15 | 25.6 | 45.8% | 33.8% | 82.5% | — | 39.3 |
| 2024–25 | 24.2 | 3.1 | 11.6 | +1.16 | ATL | 76 | 76 | 36.0 | 41.1% | 34.0% | 87.5% | #101 | 185.2 |
| 2023–24 | 25.7 | 2.8 | 10.8 | +3.14 | ATL | 54 | 54 | 36.0 | 43.0% | 37.3% | 85.5% | #30 | 208.0 |
| 2022–23 | 26.2 | 3.0 | 10.2 | +3.00 | ATL | 73 | 73 | 34.8 | 42.9% | 33.5% | 88.6% | #32 | 266.8 |
| 2021–22 | 28.4 | 3.7 | 9.7 | +5.05 | ATL | 76 | 76 | 34.9 | 46.0% | 38.2% | 90.4% | #11 | 380.5 |
| 2020–21 | 25.3 | 3.9 | 9.4 | +3.09 | ATL | 63 | 63 | 33.7 | 43.8% | 34.3% | 88.6% | #36 | 220.1 |
| 2019–20 | 29.6 | 4.3 | 9.3 | +4.66 | ATL | 60 | 60 | 35.3 | 43.7% | 36.1% | 86.0% | #14 | 302.8 |
| 2018–19 | 19.1 | 3.7 | 8.1 | -0.11 | ATL | 81 | 81 | 30.9 | 41.8% | 32.4% | 82.9% | #149 | 102.3 |
| Career | 25.1 | 3.4 | 9.8 | — | ATL/WAS | 498 | — | 34.1 | 43.3% | 35.2% | 87.2% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
Film evidence
Trae Young highlights
Watch the selected footage or film analysis, then use the season record and impact data to put what happened on the floor in context.
Trae Young's most iconic moments
The reel shows Young's deep shooting, live-dribble passing and pick-and-roll manipulation in regular-season and playoff settings.
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.
384 minutes · 450 required
384 minutes · 450 required
Career Composite 46.3 · lower is better · 8 seasons
Observed box inputs · 384 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
Trae Young played 384 minutes in 2025–26, short of the 450-minute minimum. He is not ranked in Impact Rate or value contribution.
Every season
Trae Young 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 | ATL/WAS | 27 | 15 | 384 | +2.83 | — | — | 39.3 | — | Limited |
| 2024–25 | ATL | 26 | 76 | 2,739 | +1.16 | 74.2 | #101 | 185.2 | 88th | Broad |
| 2023–24 | ATL | 25 | 54 | 1,942 | +3.14 | 92.2 | #30 | 208.0 | 90th | Broad |
| 2022–23 | ATL | 24 | 73 | 2,541 | +3.00 | 91.8 | #32 | 266.8 | 94th | Broad |
| 2021–22 | ATL | 23 | 76 | 2,652 | +5.05 | 97.4 | #11 | 380.5 | 98th | Broad |
| 2020–21 | ATL | 22 | 63 | 2,125 | +3.09 | 90.5 | #36 | 220.1 | 93rd | Broad |
| 2019–20Historical Defense Estimate | ATL | 21 | 60 | 2,120 | +4.66 | 96.3 | #14 | 302.8 | 98th | Broad |
| 2018–19Historical Defense Estimate | ATL | 20 | 81 | 2,503 | -0.11 | 59.8 | #149 | 102.3 | 74th | Broad |
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 —
384 minutes · not ranked
Career movement
Trae Young's box impact by season
Peak box impact +5.05 points per 100 possessions in 2021–22 · 8 seasons · 17,006 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.
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.
| NBA season | Trae Young | Michael Ray Richardson |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | -0.1 | -0.6 |
| 2 | 4.7 | 3.1 |
| 3 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| 4 | 5.0 | 2.8 |
| 5 | 3.0 | 0.4 |
| 6 | 3.1 | 1.5 |
| 7 | 1.2 | 4.4 |
| 8 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
NBA season number
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88/100 closest-season score · 2021–22 ↔ 1997–98Impact 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 →