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Kylor Kelley Miami Heat

Center · 7'0", 230 lb · Gervais, OR · Age 29 · 2nd season

Kylor Kelley is a center for the Miami Heat who has played 11 games over 1 season, averaging 3.1 points, 3.5 rebounds and 0.5 assists in 2024-25.

MVP race · #552Center rank · #72Balladex Impact · 50
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Kylor Kelley
Season avg3.3 pts · 6.0 reb · 1.0 ast · .444 fg
Career avg3.1 pts · 3.5 reb · 0.5 ast · .680 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
3.3pts
6.0reb
1.0ast
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Scouting report

Kylor Kelley — 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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Center · Rotation piece · Impact 50
Kylor Kelley is a center for the Miami Heat who has played 11 games over 1 season, averaging 3.1 points, 3.5 rebounds and 0.5 assists in 2024-25.
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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 Kylor Kelley 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: #455 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
50Impact index
18Star score
Career scoring average3.1 ppg
Seasons in the index2
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

Kylor Kelley — every number, three levels deep

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

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Scoring
3.3 PPG
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Playmaking
1.0 APG
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Rebounding
6.0 RPG
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Shooting
.000 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees Kylor Kelley

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
real
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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 29 — 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: 8 / 3 → games & confidence
health
The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

Kylor Kelley career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2024-25 (Dallas)88.43.02.60.3.769.000
2024-25 (New Orleans)319.73.36.01.0.444.000
Career1111.53.13.50.5
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 Miami Heat built to win?

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

48–34proj record
#8conf seed
+2.7net rtg
116.1off rtg
113.3def rtg
85%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: Bam Adebayo, Davion Mitchell.
How his role moves
Projected 48–34, 8th in the East. Real team projection from the roster + last-season baselines. His usage, minutes and creation load move with roster health.
Balladex Impact
50 of 99
Rotation piece tier.
Rarity
◆ Rated
Collectible tier.
Résumé
0 accolades
Career honors on file.
Act IV

The Ballad of Kylor Kelley

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

1997-08-26

The beginning

Kylor Kelley is a center for the Miami Heat.

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Kylor Kelley is a center for the Miami Heat.

Chapter

He has played 11 games over 1 season (2024-25), averaging 11.5 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 11 games across 2 teams, averaging 3.1 points, 3.5 rebounds and 0.5 assists in 11.5 minutes.

Where things stand

Where Kelley goes from here.

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

Measurables ESPN
Day-To-Day · INJURY_STATUS_DAYTODAYKelley (calf) did not play during Saturday's 144-128 preseason win over Brooklyn.
Height
7' 0"
Weight
230 lbs
College
Oregon State
Experience
1st Season
Born
Gervais, OR
Age
29
Beyond the game

Kylor Kelley is from Gervais, OR, born 1997-08-26, listed at 7'0" and 230 lb. He has 1 season 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 center on 11.5 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.

Bench depth11.5 minutes a night; situational.
Floor spacerShooting 0.0% from three.
Verified profiles & sources
FAQ

Kylor Kelley — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Kylor Kelley, answered.

What position does Kylor Kelley play?
Kylor Kelley is a center for the Miami Heat.
How many NBA games has Kylor Kelley played?
11 regular-season games over 1 season, averaging 11.5 minutes.
How many NBA seasons has Kylor Kelley played?
1 season (2024-25).
How tall is Kylor Kelley?
7'0", 230 lb
Kylor Kelley 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
12%
2 seasons
Last 3 seasons
12%
86 games missed
Games missed
86
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Injury-prone
steady
Availability by season
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24-25 (Dallas)
3
24-25 (New Orleans)

Injury-prone. Availability trend is steady — 12% of games over the last three seasons, low of 6% in 2024-25 (New Orleans).

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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