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John Poulakidas Dallas Mavericks · #1

Guard · 6'6", 205 lb · Naperville, IL · Age 23 · 1st season

John Poulakidas is a guard for the Dallas Mavericks who has played 13 games over 1 season, averaging 8.8 points, 2.3 rebounds and 0.8 assists in 2025-26.

MVP race · #245Guard rank · #164Balladex Impact · 51
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John Poulakidas
Season avg8.8 pts · 2.3 reb · 0.8 ast · .429 fg
Career avg8.8 pts · 2.3 reb · 0.8 ast · .429 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
8.8pts
2.3reb
0.8ast
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Scouting report

John Poulakidas — 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
John Poulakidas is a guard for the Dallas Mavericks who has played 13 games over 1 season, averaging 8.8 points, 2.3 rebounds and 0.8 assists in 2025-
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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 John Poulakidas 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 DEN▬
29%
2
Luka Doncic LAL▬
19%
3
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander OKC▬
11%
4
Giannis Antetokounmpo MIA▬
5%
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Victor Wembanyama SAS▬
3%
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Anthony Edwards MIN▬
2%
7
Tyrese Maxey PHI▬
2%
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Jamal Murray DEN▬
2%
✦ Balladex Consensus: #340 of 627 — a blend of the Impact index, current production, career résumé and live search demand. Recomputes as the data does.
Futures & chases
<1%MVP odds
51Impact index
28Star score
Career scoring average8.8 ppg
Seasons in the index1
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

John Poulakidas — every number, three levels deep

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

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Scoring
8.8 PPG
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Playmaking
0.8 APG
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Rebounding
2.3 RPG
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Shooting
.403 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees John Poulakidas

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 23 — 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: 13 → games & confidence
health
The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

John Poulakidas career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2025-261319.58.82.30.8.429.403
Career1319.58.82.30.8
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 Dallas Mavericks built to win?

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

28–54proj record
#12conf seed
-5.1net rtg
110.4off rtg
115.4def rtg
1%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: Daniel Gafford, Dereck Lively II.
How his role moves
Projected 28–54, 12th 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 John Poulakidas

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

2003-04-04

The beginning

John Poulakidas is a guard for the Dallas Mavericks.

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John Poulakidas is a guard for the Dallas Mavericks.

Chapter

He has played 13 games over 1 season (2025-26), averaging 19.5 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 13 games, averaging 8.8 points, 2.3 rebounds and 0.8 assists in 19.5 minutes.

Where things stand

Where Poulakidas goes from here.

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

Measurables ESPN
Active
Height
6' 6"
Weight
205 lbs
College
Yale
Experience
2nd Season
Born
Naperville, IL
Age
23
Jersey
#1
Beyond the game

John Poulakidas is from Naperville, IL, born 2003-04-04, listed at 6'6" and 205 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 19.5 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.

Rotation regular19.5 minutes a night in the rotation.
Floor spacerShooting 40.3% from three.
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FAQ

John Poulakidas — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about John Poulakidas, answered.

What position does John Poulakidas play?
John Poulakidas is a guard for the Dallas Mavericks.
How many NBA games has John Poulakidas played?
13 regular-season games over 1 season, averaging 19.5 minutes.
How many NBA seasons has John Poulakidas played?
1 season (2025-26).
How tall is John Poulakidas?
6'6", 205 lb
John Poulakidas 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
16%
1 seasons
Last 3 seasons
16%
69 games missed
Games missed
69
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Injury-prone
steady
Availability by season
13
25-26

Injury-prone. Availability trend is steady — 16% of games over the last three seasons, low of 16% 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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