Descriptive only — no edge claimed. These are career per-36 rates, not projections.

NBA players · NBA · as of 2026-04-12

LaMelo Ball

Descriptive card · conservative measured rates.

seasons played

Higher than 64% of 482 in pack

games

135

Higher than 41% of 482 in pack

minutes

4044.1

Higher than 62% of 482 in pack

PTS /36

26.9

Higher than 98% of 482 in pack

REB /36

5.9

Higher than 53% of 482 in pack

AST /36

8.8

Higher than 98% of 482 in pack

FG %

41.1

Higher than 12% of 482 in pack

3P %

35.5

Higher than 54% of 482 in pack

FT %

86.7

Higher than 91% of 482 in pack

Bars show where this card sits within its own pack (482 nba players), by simple rank of the measured value. Higher is only higher -- no quality judgement is implied.

What stands out

26.9 points and 8.8 assists per 36: enormous offensive responsibility.
41.1 percent from the field is the cost attached to it.
Availability compounds the question: 135 games across the window.

Reading note

Per-36-minute rates over a 3-season sample (seasons_played: 3), not per-game and not full-career figures. The manifest is descriptive_only: no adjustment for opponent, teammates, role, or shot difficulty, and a career_min_minutes>=800 inclusion floor applies. Games and minutes measure availability, not how well those minutes were used. The comparison is scoped to the players with insight files in this set; nothing here adjusts for shot difficulty or supporting cast.

Also measured elsewhere

Joined onto 330 of 482 player cards; the leaderboard badges cover far fewer.

Team win rate with/without this player

CHA: active 0.5694 vs missed 0.3000 (delta +0.2694)

n_active=72, n_missed=10, ci95_offset=[-0.3062, 0.3062]

WITH/WITHOUT = ROSTER CONFOUND: this is NOT a causal player-impact estimate. Why a player missed games is entangled with injuries clustering, rest-game scheduling, blowout pulls, and a different replacement lineup -- none controlled for. DESCRIPTIVE_ONLY, not a predictive or edge claim.

Consistency profile -- most_consistent_top15 #13

composite_cv_shrunk=0.4053

games=134

NOT a skill/value metric -- a low-volume role player can be very consistent at low output; NOT opponent/rest/role/home-away adjusted -- raw game-to-game dispersion only; NOT predictive -- describes past games, does not forecast future variance