Jay HuffIndiana Pacers · #32
Jay Huff is a 7-foot-1 stretch and shot-blocking center for the Indiana Pacers — a floor-spacing, rim-protecting big. A 2019 NCAA champion at Virginia and the 2023 G League Defensive Player of the Year, he went undrafted in 2021 and worked up as a journeyman before landing in Indiana, where he dropped a career-high 29 points in January 2026.
Jay Huff — the report card
Read his whole game at a glance, then dive into any skill. Grades from the DNA model + real production.
Where Jay Huff stands
Live ladders from the Balladex models, and what he's chasing. Rankings recompute nightly from real production, accolades, and search demand.
Jay Huff — every number, three levels deep
Headline → metric → the raw history behind it. Real career data; tracking-only metrics labeled.
How the model sees Jay Huff
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.
Jay Huff career stats, season by season
| Season | GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% | 3P% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 4 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | .000 | .000 |
| 2022-23 | 7 | 13.6 | 7.3 | 3.0 | 1.4 | .600 | .500 |
| 2023-24 | 20 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | .600 | .333 |
| 2024-25 | 64 | 11.7 | 6.9 | 2.0 | 0.6 | .515 | .405 |
| 2025-26 | 82 | 21.0 | 9.5 | 4.0 | 1.5 | .476 | .319 |
| Career | 177 | 14.9 | 7.3 | 2.8 | 1.0 |
The Lab
Every number, live and interactive. Real career data; models labeled.
Are the Indiana Pacers built to win?
Team projection rolled up from the roster + last-season baselines — and what it means for his role.
The Ballad of Jay Huff
Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.
The beginning
A 7-foot-1 stretch and shot-blocking center — floor spacing and rim protection for the Pacers.
Turning pro
Drafted Undrafted, 2021 as a Center.
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A 7-foot-1 stretch and shot-blocking center — floor spacing and rim protection for the Pacers.
Chapter
A 2019 NCAA champion at Virginia, Huff went undrafted in 2021 and became a journeyman.
Chapter
He dominated the G League — 2023 Defensive Player of the Year.
Off the court
- Height
- 7' 1"
- Weight
- 240 lbs
- College
- Virginia
- Experience
- 5th Season
- Draft
- Undrafted, 2021
- Born
- Durham, North Carolina
- Age
- 29
- Jersey
- #32
Huff comes from a college-basketball family — his father played at Pacific Lutheran and directs a human-performance lab at Duke, his mother played at West Virginia — and he is a man of faith active in Christian fellowship who aspires to become a minister. That thoughtful background complements a patient, grind-it-out professional path from undrafted to established specialist.
His on-court identity is the modern stretch-five — a true 7-footer who blocks shots at a high rate (a G League Defensive Player of the Year) and spaces the floor with perimeter shooting. A career reserve rather than a starter, his value is rim protection and floor-stretching in bench minutes, exactly the specialist a deep contender uses.
A stretch-five specialist — floor-spacing shooting and high-rate shot-blocking.
Jay Huff — frequently asked
The questions people ask most about Jay Huff, answered.
