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Keon Ellis Brooklyn Nets · #1

Guard · 6'4", 175 lb · Eustis, FL · Age 26 · 5th season

Keon Ellis is a guard for the Brooklyn Nets who has played 225 games over 4 seasons, averaging 6.7 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 2025-26.

MVP race · #539Guard rank · #177Balladex Impact · 54
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Keon Ellis
Season avg8.3 pts · 2.8 reb · 1.6 ast · .491 fg
Career avg6.6 pts · 2.2 reb · 1.3 ast · .461 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
8.3pts
2.8reb
1.6ast
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Scouting report

Keon Ellis — 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 54
Keon Ellis is a guard for the Brooklyn Nets who has played 225 games over 4 seasons, averaging 6.7 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.0 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 Keon Ellis 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%
5
Joel Embiid Philadelphia 76ers▬
2%
✦ Balladex Consensus: #369 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
54Impact index
27Star score
Career scoring average6.6 ppg
Seasons in the index5
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

Keon Ellis — every number, three levels deep

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

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Scoring
8.3 PPG
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Playmaking
1.6 APG
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Rebounding
2.8 RPG
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Shooting
.355 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees Keon Ellis

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  75% confidence
7.3
pts
5.6–9.0
1.9
reb
1.2–2.6
1.0
ast
0.4–1.6
21.8
min
proj
72
gp
health
.458
fg%
~base
.401
3p%
~base
Bands widen as confidence drops. Derived live from the real 4-season history below.
What moves the points line vs last season
Last season 6.7 → projected 7.3 PPG
Minutes / role
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Development (his trend)
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Age curve
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Live context
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Net vs last season+0.6 PPG
Everything it reads
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5 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 26 — applied per stat
curve
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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: 80 / 43 / 29 → games & confidence
health
The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

Keon Ellis career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2022-23164.41.50.50.4.438.500
2023-245717.25.42.21.5.461.417
2024-258024.48.32.71.5.489.433
2025-26 (Sacramento)4317.65.61.30.6.397.368
2025-26 (Cleveland)2924.98.32.81.6.491.355
Career22519.96.62.21.3
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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—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 Brooklyn Nets built to win?

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

16–66proj record
#14conf seed
-9.6net rtg
108.4off rtg
118def 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 improving. Defensive anchors: Day'Ron Sharpe, Terance Mann.
How his role moves
Projected 16–66, 14th in the East. Real team projection from the roster + last-season baselines. His usage, minutes and creation load move with roster health.
Balladex Impact
54 of 99
Rotation piece tier.
Rarity
◆ Rated
Collectible tier.
Résumé
0 accolades
Career honors on file.
Act IV

The Ballad of Keon Ellis

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

2000-01-08

The beginning

Keon Ellis is a guard for the Brooklyn Nets.

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Keon Ellis is a guard for the Brooklyn Nets.

Chapter

He has played 225 games over 4 seasons (2022-26), averaging 19.9 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 72 games across 2 teams, averaging 6.7 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 20.5 minutes.

Where things stand

Where Ellis goes from here.

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

Measurables ESPN
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Height
6' 4"
Weight
175 lbs
College
Alabama
Experience
5th Season
Born
Eustis, FL
Age
26
Jersey
#1
Beyond the game

Keon Ellis is from Eustis, FL, born 2000-01-08, listed at 6'4" and 175 lb. He has 5 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 19.9 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.

Rotation regular20.5 minutes a night in the rotation.
Floor spacerShooting 35.5% from three.
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FAQ

Keon Ellis — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Keon Ellis, answered.

What position does Keon Ellis play?
Keon Ellis is a guard for the Brooklyn Nets.
How many NBA games has Keon Ellis played?
225 regular-season games over 4 seasons, averaging 19.9 minutes.
How many NBA seasons has Keon Ellis played?
4 seasons (2022-26).
How tall is Keon Ellis?
6'4", 175 lb
Keon Ellis 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
71%
5 seasons
Last 3 seasons
88%
16 games missed
Games missed
107
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Durable
improving
Availability by season
16
22-23
57
23-24
80
24-25
43
25-26 (Sacramento)
29
25-26 (Cleveland)

Durable. Availability trend is improving — 88% of games over the last three seasons, low of 20% in 2022-23.

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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