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Kyrie Irving Dallas Mavericks · #11

Guard · 6'2", 195 lb · Melbourne, Australia · Age 34 · 14th season

Kyrie Irving is a star point guard and one of the most gifted ball handlers and shot creators in NBA history, a career 23.7 points and 5.6 assists per game scorer. An eight-time (now nine-time) All-Star, he hit the title-clinching Game 7 three for Cleveland in the 2016 Finals. He remains under contract with the Dallas Mavericks while recovering from a March 2025 ACL tear.

MVP race · #553Guard rank · #6Balladex Impact · 89
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Kyrie Irving
Season avg24.7 pts · 4.8 reb · 4.6 ast · .473 fg
Career avg23.7 pts · 4.1 reb · 5.6 ast · .473 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
24.7pts
4.8reb
4.6ast
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Scouting report

Kyrie Irving — 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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Star Point Guard - Shot Creator · Impact 89
Kyrie Irving is a star point guard and one of the most gifted ball handlers and shot creators in NBA history, a career 23.7 points and 5.6 assists per
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Offense
D
Defense
A
Feel / IQ
A-
Playmaking
Excellent creator
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Scoring
Elite scorer
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F
Rebounding
Below average on the glass
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3PT / spacing
Elite spacing
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C
Perimeter D
Average on the perimeter
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F
Paint / rim D
Below average at the rim
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A+
Clutch
Elite late
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B+
Athleticism
Excellent tools
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Basketball IQ
Reads the game
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C+
Durability
Availability
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Act II

Where Kyrie Irving 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: #38 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
89Impact index
727Star score
Career scoring average23.7 ppg
Seasons in the index14
Accolades on file8
9× NBA All-Star · 1× NBA Champion
Stat explorer

Kyrie Irving — every number, three levels deep

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

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Scoring
24.7 PPG
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Playmaking
4.6 APG
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Rebounding
4.8 RPG
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Shooting
.401 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees Kyrie Irving

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  75% confidence
23.8
pts
21.5–26.1
4.6
reb
3.8–5.4
4.5
ast
3.8–5.2
35.4
min
proj
54
gp
health
.486
fg%
~base
.400
3p%
~base
Bands widen as confidence drops. Derived live from the real 14-season history below.
What moves the points line vs last season
Last season 24.7 → projected 23.8 PPG
Minutes / role
-0.5
Development (his trend)
-0.2
Age curve
-0.6
Live context
+0.5
Net vs last season-0.9 PPG
Everything it reads
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14 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 34 — 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: 60 / 58 / 50 → games & confidence
health
The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

Kyrie Irving career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2011-125130.518.53.75.4.469.399
2012-135934.722.53.75.9.452.391
2013-147135.220.83.66.1.430.358
2014-157536.421.73.25.2.468.415
2015-165331.519.63.04.7.448.321
2016-177235.125.23.25.8.473.401
2017-186032.224.43.85.1.491.408
2018-196733.023.85.06.9.487.401
2019-202032.927.45.26.4.478.394
2020-215434.926.94.86.0.506.402
2021-222937.627.44.45.8.469.418
2022-236037.427.15.15.5.494.379
2023-245835.025.65.05.2.497.411
2024-255036.124.74.84.6.473.401
Career77934.523.74.15.6
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
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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
89 of 99
All-Star level tier.
Rarity
◆ Epic
Rank #27 of 984 in NBA.
Résumé
8 accolades
9× NBA All-Star · 1× NBA Champion · 3× All-NBA
Act IV

The Ballad of Kyrie Irving

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

Mar 23, 1992

The beginning

Kyrie Irving is an Australian-born American point guard for the Dallas Mavericks, celebrated as one of the greatest ball handlers and shot creators the game has seen.

Dallas Mavericks

Turning pro

Drafted 1st overall, 2011 as a Guard.

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Kyrie Irving is a nine-time All-Star point guard and 2016 NBA champion known for the most creative handle in the sport.

Chapter

Born in Melbourne while his father played professionally in Australia, Irving grew up in West Orange, New Jersey.

Chapter

He spent one season at Duke before Cleveland made him the first overall pick in the 2011 draft.

Off the court

Measurables ESPN
Day-To-Day · INJURY_STATUS_DAYTODAYIrving (rest) won't play Wednesday against the Pelicans, Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News reports.
Height
6' 2"
Weight
195 lbs
College
Duke
Experience
15th Season
NBA debut
2011
Draft
1st overall, 2011
Born
Melbourne, Australia
Age
34
Jersey
#11
Beyond the game

Off the court, Irving is known for the Uncle Drew character he created for a commercial series that spun into a feature film, and for a range of interests and activism that have often placed him at the center of league conversations. He has supported Indigenous and community causes and embraces a reputation as one of the sport's more independent thinkers.

The person

Irving is a fiercely independent, deeply curious competitor whose on-court artistry is matched by an off-court willingness to go his own way.

IndependentUnafraid to hold and voice unconventional views
CreativeImprovisational genius with the ball in his hands
ClutchThrives in the biggest late-game moments
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FAQ

Kyrie Irving — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Kyrie Irving, answered.

Is Kyrie Irving still playing in 2026?
He is under contract with the Dallas Mavericks but sat out the entire 2025-26 season recovering from a torn ACL suffered in March 2025.
How many championships has Kyrie Irving won?
One, with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016, when he hit the title-clinching Game 7 three.
Where was Kyrie Irving born?
He was born in Melbourne, Australia, while his father played professional basketball there, then grew up in New Jersey.
Kyrie Irving 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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ReturnOct 12, 2026Medium confidence
Kyrie Irving scores 17 in his first game in 586 days
Dallas has $81.9M committed to him across the two contract seasons on file, which is exactly why nobody there should be in a hurry in October.
InjurySep 28, 2026Medium confidence
Kyrie Irving says he has no restrictions 19 months after tearing his ACL
Clearance and readiness are different things, and so far only one of them has been reported.

Availability & durability

games played vs season length
Career availability
70%
14 seasons
Last 3 seasons
68%
78 games missed
Games missed
333
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Some risk
steady
Availability by season
53
15-16
72
16-17
60
17-18
67
18-19
20
19-20
54
20-21
29
21-22
60
22-23
58
23-24
50
24-25

Some risk. Availability trend is steady — 68% of games over the last three seasons, low of 28% in 2019-20.

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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