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Jaylen Martin Portland Trail Blazers

Guard · 6'6", 216 lb · Tallahassee, FL · Age 22 · 2nd season

Jaylen Martin is a guard for the Portland Trail Blazers who has played 16 games over 1 season, averaging 4.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 2024-25.

MVP race · #521Guard rank · #201Balladex Impact · 51
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Portland Trail Blazers · Guard
Jaylen Martin
Season avg5.8 pts · 3.4 reb · 1.3 ast · .417 fg
Career avg4.9 pts · 2.8 reb · 1.1 ast · .433 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
5.8pts
3.4reb
1.3ast
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Scouting report

Jaylen Martin — 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 51
Jaylen Martin is a guard for the Portland Trail Blazers who has played 16 games over 1 season, averaging 4.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 2
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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 Jaylen Martin 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%
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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: #423 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
51Impact index
23Star score
Career scoring average4.9 ppg
Seasons in the index2
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

Jaylen Martin — every number, three levels deep

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

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Scoring
5.8 PPG
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Playmaking
1.3 APG
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Rebounding
3.4 RPG
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Shooting
.273 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees Jaylen Martin

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 2025-26  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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2 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 22 — 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: 3 / 13 → games & confidence
health
The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

Jaylen Martin career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2024-25 (Brooklyn)31.71.00.00.0.5001.000
2024-25 (Washington)1318.15.83.41.3.417.273
Career1615.04.92.81.1
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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—in 2026 pace
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 Portland Trail Blazers built to win?

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

43–39proj record
#9conf seed
+0.6net rtg
113.6off rtg
113def rtg
54%playoff odds
Roster delta · what changed
Drop coverage — Sits the big back to wall off the rim and lives with contested mid-range looks.. Core trending improving. Defensive anchors: Donovan Clingan, Jrue Holiday.
How his role moves
Projected 43–39, 9th in the West. Real team projection from the roster + last-season baselines. His usage, minutes and creation load move with roster health.
Balladex Impact
51 of 99
Rotation piece tier.
Rarity
◆ Rated
Collectible tier.
Résumé
0 accolades
Career honors on file.
Act IV

The Ballad of Jaylen Martin

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

2004-01-28

The beginning

Jaylen Martin is a guard for the Portland Trail Blazers.

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Jaylen Martin is a guard for the Portland Trail Blazers.

Chapter

He has played 16 games over 1 season (2024-25), averaging 15.0 minutes a night. The season-by-season table below carries every per-game figure, each one reconciled against ESPN.

Chapter

In 2024-25 he played 16 games across 2 teams, averaging 4.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 15.0 minutes.

Where things stand

Where Martin goes from here.

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

Measurables ESPN
Active
Height
6' 6"
Weight
216 lbs
Experience
3rd Season
Born
Tallahassee, FL
Age
22
Beyond the game

Jaylen Martin is from Tallahassee, FL, born 2004-01-28, listed at 6'6" and 216 lb. He has 3 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 15.0 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.

Bench depth15.0 minutes a night; situational.
Floor spacerShooting 27.3% from three.
Verified profiles & sources
FAQ

Jaylen Martin — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Jaylen Martin, answered.

What position does Jaylen Martin play?
Jaylen Martin is a guard for the Portland Trail Blazers.
How many NBA games has Jaylen Martin played?
16 regular-season games over 1 season, averaging 15.0 minutes.
How many NBA seasons has Jaylen Martin played?
1 season (2024-25).
How tall is Jaylen Martin?
6'6", 216 lb
Jaylen Martin 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
25%
2 seasons
Last 3 seasons
25%
50 games missed
Games missed
50
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Injury-prone
steady
Availability by season
3
24-25 (Brooklyn)
13
24-25 (Washington)

Injury-prone. Availability trend is steady — 25% of games over the last three seasons, low of 9% in 2024-25 (Brooklyn).

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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