Christian BraunDenver Nuggets · #0
Christian Braun is a high-motor two-way guard for the Denver Nuggets from a deep basketball family. He won an NCAA title at Kansas in 2022, then an NBA championship as a rookie with Denver in 2023 — one of only five players ever to win NCAA and NBA titles in back-to-back seasons. In 2025-26 he averaged 12.0 points on 52% shooting as a rangy, relentless starter.
Christian Braun — the report card
Read his whole game at a glance, then dive into any skill. Grades from the DNA model + real production.
Where Christian Braun stands
Live ladders from the Balladex models, and what he's chasing. Rankings recompute nightly from real production, accolades, and search demand.
Christian Braun — every number, three levels deep
Headline → metric → the raw history behind it. Real career data; tracking-only metrics labeled.
How the model sees Christian Braun
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.
Christian Braun career stats, season by season
| Season | GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% | 3P% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 76 | 15.5 | 4.7 | 2.4 | 0.8 | .495 | .354 |
| 2023-24 | 82 | 20.2 | 7.3 | 3.7 | 1.6 | .460 | .384 |
| 2024-25 | 79 | 33.9 | 15.4 | 5.2 | 2.6 | .580 | .397 |
| 2025-26 | 44 | 31.8 | 12.0 | 4.8 | 2.7 | .519 | .301 |
| Career | 281 | 24.6 | 9.6 | 3.9 | 1.8 |
The Lab
Every number, live and interactive. Real career data; models labeled.
Are the Denver Nuggets built to win?
Team projection rolled up from the roster + last-season baselines — and what it means for his role.
The Ballad of Christian Braun
Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.
The beginning
The Kansas kid from a basketball family who won an NCAA title and an NBA title in back-to-back years.
Turning pro
Drafted 21st overall, 2022 as a Guard.
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He won an NCAA title, then an NBA title as a rookie — back-to-back — before most players win anything at all.
Chapter
Born in Burlington, Kansas to a family stitched into Midwest basketball — a dad who walked on at Kansas, a mom and aunt who played at Missouri — Braun became a Jayhawk and dropped 12 points and 12 rebounds in the 2022 national championship game.
Chapter
Denver took him 21st in 2022, and he did the near-impossible: won the 2023 NBA title as a rookie, joining a five-man club (Russell, Bibby, Magic, Thompson) to win NCAA and NBA crowns in consecutive years.
Off the court
- Height
- 6' 6"
- Weight
- 220 lbs
- College
- Kansas
- Experience
- 4th Season
- Draft
- 21st overall, 2022
- Born
- Burlington, Kansas
- Age
- 25
- Jersey
- #0
Braun is basketball through and through: raised in small-town Kansas by a family whose names hang in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, he grew up in gyms and played alongside his brother Parker at Kansas. His game reflects that upbringing — unglamorous, relentless, and winning. Teammates and coaches describe a motor that never stops and a competitiveness that made him a rare rookie contributor on a title team.
Relentless, competitive, and allergic to losing — a connector who does the winning things.
Christian Braun — frequently asked
The questions people ask most about Christian Braun, answered.
