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Chris Manon Los Angeles Lakers · #30

Guard · 6'4", 209 lb · New Milford, NJ · Age 25 · 1st season

Chris Manon is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers who has played 9 games over 1 season, averaging 0.8 points, 1.1 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 2025-26.

MVP race · #386Guard rank · #212Balladex Impact · 50
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Los Angeles Lakers · #30 · Guard
Chris Manon
Season avg0.8 pts · 1.1 reb · 0.3 ast · .333 fg
Career avg0.8 pts · 1.1 reb · 0.3 ast · .333 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
0.8pts
1.1reb
0.3ast
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Scouting report

Chris Manon — the report card

Read his whole game at a glance, then dive into any skill. Grades from the DNA model + real production.

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Guard · Rotation piece · Impact 50
Chris Manon is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers who has played 9 games over 1 season, averaging 0.8 points, 1.1 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 2025-26.
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Offense
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Defense
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Feel / IQ
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Playmaking
Below average creator
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Scoring
Below average scorer
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Rebounding
Below average on the glass
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3PT / spacing
Below average spacing
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Perimeter D
Below average on the perimeter
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Paint / rim D
Below average at the rim
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Clutch
Below average late
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Athleticism
Below average tools
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Basketball IQ
Reads the game
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Durability
Availability
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Act II

Where Chris Manon stands

Live ladders from the Balladex models, and what he's chasing. Rankings recompute nightly from real production, accolades, and search demand.

The laddersmodel · recomputes nightly
1
Nikola Jokić Denver Nuggets▬
43%
2
Giannis Antetokounmpo Miami Heat▬
23%
3
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Oklahoma City Thunder▬
19%
4
Luka Doncic Los Angeles Lakers▬
7%
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Joel Embiid Philadelphia 76ers▬
2%
✦ Balladex Consensus: #448 of 627 — a blend of the Impact index, current production, career résumé and live search demand. Recomputes as the data does.
Futures & chases
—MVP odds
50Impact index
14Star score
Career scoring average0.8 ppg
Seasons in the index1
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

Chris Manon — every number, three levels deep

Headline → metric → the raw history behind it. Real career data; tracking-only metrics labeled.

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Scoring
0.8 PPG
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Playmaking
0.3 APG
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Rebounding
1.1 RPG
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Shooting
.000 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees Chris Manon

Projection = per-minute rate × projected minutes. Rates are recency- and health-weighted, aged along a per-stat curve, and adjusted for live usage/role. No black box — every number shows its work.

Projected 2026-27  confidence
Bands widen as confidence drops. Derived live from the real 1-season history below.
What moves the points line vs last season
Everything it reads
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1 seasons of per-minute rates
every box line, minutes-normalized
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Recency × games-played weight
recent, healthy seasons anchor the baseline
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Weighted least-squares trend
his own trajectory, read season over season
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Per-stat aging curves
age 25 — applied per stat
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Live role context
usage & role shifts fold in when the feed is present
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Durability signal
GP last 3: 9 → games & confidence
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The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

Chris Manon career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2025-2695.10.81.10.3.333.000
Career95.10.81.10.3
Source: Basketball-Reference. Backtested against completed player-seasons in the index. The same engine powers Tonight's projection, EraLab, and the role simulator — one model, asked different questions. Illustrative.
Act III

The Lab

Every number, live and interactive. Real career data; models labeled.

Gold = MVP / Championship season · hover any bar. Real per-game data; per-36 & totals derived.
EraLab · the stat time machinenovel
Re-express a season in today's pace-and-space.
—raw PPG
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why
Player DNA + compssimilarity model
Closest comps
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Scoring map · clickable zonesShotChart
Team-tinted. Modeled where tracking data is absent.
Role simulatorpowered by GM engine
Change the roster around him — his projection updates live.
Projected line shifts to — usage , assists rise as primary initiator. Title odds . Illustrative.
Context

Are the Los Angeles Lakers built to win?

Team projection rolled up from the roster + last-season baselines — and what it means for his role.

48–34proj record
#6conf seed
+2.8net rtg
117.6off rtg
114.9def rtg
85%playoff odds
Roster delta · what changed
Aggressive hedge & help — Hedges hard on ball screens and rotates aggressive help from the weak side. Core trending steady. Defensive anchors: Austin Reaves, Luka Doncic.
How his role moves
Projected 48–34, 6th in the West. Real team projection from the roster + last-season baselines. His usage, minutes and creation load move with roster health.
Balladex Impact
50 of 99
Rotation piece tier.
Rarity
◆ Rated
Collectible tier.
Résumé
0 accolades
Career honors on file.
Act IV

The Ballad of Chris Manon

Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.

2001-12-09

The beginning

Chris Manon is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Chris Manon is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Chapter

He has played 9 games over 1 season (2025-26), averaging 5.1 minutes a night. The season-by-season table below carries every per-game figure, each one reconciled against ESPN.

Chapter

In 2025-26 he played 9 games, averaging 0.8 points, 1.1 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 5.1 minutes.

Where things stand

Where Manon goes from here.

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Manon's story
The documentary, narrated
Highlights
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Off the court

Measurables ESPN
Active
Height
6' 4"
Weight
209 lbs
College
Vanderbilt
Experience
2nd Season
Born
New Milford, NJ
Age
25
Jersey
#30
Beyond the game

Chris Manon is from New Milford, NJ, born 2001-12-09, listed at 6'4" and 209 lb. He has 2 seasons of NBA service. This background is assembled from league records; the colour that fills a page like this comes later, from a human.

The person

A guard on 5.1 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.

Bench depth5.1 minutes a night; situational.
Floor spacerShooting 0.0% from three.
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FAQ

Chris Manon — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Chris Manon, answered.

What position does Chris Manon play?
Chris Manon is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers.
How many NBA games has Chris Manon played?
9 regular-season games over 1 season, averaging 5.1 minutes.
How many NBA seasons has Chris Manon played?
1 season (2025-26).
How tall is Chris Manon?
6'4", 209 lb
Chris Manon career stats & accolades are real, and team projections and recent-game home/away splits are computed from real production. DNA ratings, grades, tonight's projection, ladders, live win probability and simulator outputs are Balladex model output. Not affiliated with the NBA.
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Availability & durability

games played vs season length
Career availability
11%
1 seasons
Last 3 seasons
11%
73 games missed
Games missed
73
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Injury-prone
steady
Availability by season
9
25-26

Injury-prone. Availability trend is steady — 11% of games over the last three seasons, low of 11% in 2025-26.

Availability = games played ÷ season length (schedule-adjusted for lockout and COVID seasons). A durability signal from real game data, not a medical assessment.

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