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Matisse Thybulle Los Angeles Lakers · #26

Guard · 6'5", 202 lb · Issaquah, WA · Age 29 · 8th season

Matisse Thybulle is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers who has played 377 games over 7 seasons, averaging 5.8 points, 2.0 rebounds and 0.9 assists in 2025-26.

MVP race · #343Guard rank · #192Balladex Impact · 48
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Matisse Thybulle
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Los Angeles Lakers · #26 · Guard
Matisse Thybulle
Season avg5.8 pts · 2.0 reb · 0.9 ast · .433 fg
Career avg5.0 pts · 2.0 reb · 1.1 ast · .436 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
5.8pts
2.0reb
0.9ast
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Scouting report

Matisse Thybulle — 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 48
Matisse Thybulle is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers who has played 377 games over 7 seasons, averaging 5.8 points, 2.0 rebounds and 0.9 assists in
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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 Matisse Thybulle 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: #404 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
48Impact index
23Star score
Career scoring average5.0 ppg
Seasons in the index8
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

Matisse Thybulle — 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
0.9 APG
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Rebounding
2.0 RPG
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Shooting
.398 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees Matisse Thybulle

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  68% confidence
6.1
pts
4.1–8.1
2.0
reb
1.1–2.9
0.9
ast
0.2–1.6
15.6
min
proj
31
gp
health
.426
fg%
~base
.376
3p%
~base
Bands widen as confidence drops. Derived live from the real 7-season history below.
What moves the points line vs last season
Last season 5.8 → projected 6.1 PPG
Minutes / role
-0.1
Development (his trend)
+0.3
Age curve
+0.0
Live context
+0.1
Net vs last season+0.3 PPG
Everything it reads
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8 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 29 — applied per stat
curve
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Live role context
usage & role shifts fold in when the feed is present
+ctx
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Durability signal
GP last 3: 65 / 15 / 30 → games & confidence
health
The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

Matisse Thybulle career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2019-206519.84.71.61.2.423.357
2020-216520.03.91.91.0.420.301
2021-226625.55.72.31.1.500.313
2022-23 (Philadelphia)4912.02.71.30.5.431.333
2022-23 (Portland)2227.67.43.51.4.438.388
2023-246522.95.42.11.4.397.346
2024-251520.87.53.51.9.477.438
2025-263016.05.82.00.9.433.398
Career37720.55.02.01.1
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 Los Angeles Lakers built to win?

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

48–34proj record
#6conf seed
+2.8net rtg
117.6off rtg
114.9def rtg
85%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: Austin Reaves, Luka Doncic.
How his role moves
Projected 48–34, 6th in the West. Real team projection from the roster + last-season baselines. His usage, minutes and creation load move with roster health.
Balladex Impact
48 of 99
Rotation piece tier.
Rarity
◆ Rated
Collectible tier.
Résumé
0 accolades
Career honors on file.
Act IV

The Ballad of Matisse Thybulle

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

1997-03-04

The beginning

Matisse Thybulle is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Los Angeles Lakers

Turning pro

Drafted 20th overall, 2019 as a Guard.

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Matisse Thybulle is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Chapter

He has played 377 games over 7 seasons (2019-26), averaging 20.5 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 30 games, averaging 5.8 points, 2.0 rebounds and 0.9 assists in 16.0 minutes.

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

Measurables ESPN
Active
Height
6' 5"
Weight
202 lbs
College
Washington
Experience
8th Season
NBA debut
2019
Draft
20th overall, 2019
Born
Issaquah, WA
Age
29
Jersey
#26
Beyond the game

Matisse Thybulle is from Issaquah, WA, born 1997-03-04, listed at 6'5" and 202 lb. He has 8 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 20.5 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.

Bench depth16.0 minutes a night; situational.
Floor spacerShooting 39.8% from three.
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FAQ

Matisse Thybulle — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Matisse Thybulle, answered.

What position does Matisse Thybulle play?
Matisse Thybulle is a guard for the Los Angeles Lakers.
How many NBA games has Matisse Thybulle played?
377 regular-season games over 7 seasons, averaging 20.5 minutes.
How many NBA seasons has Matisse Thybulle played?
7 seasons (2019-26).
How tall is Matisse Thybulle?
6'5", 202 lb
Matisse Thybulle 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
67%
8 seasons
Last 3 seasons
45%
136 games missed
Games missed
195
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Injury-prone
declining
Availability by season
65
19-20
65
20-21
66
21-22
49
22-23 (Philadelphia)
22
22-23 (Portland)
65
23-24
15
24-25
30
25-26

Injury-prone. Availability trend is declining — 45% of games over the last three seasons, low of 18% in 2024-25.

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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