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Micah Potter Portland Trail Blazers · #9

Center · 6'9", 248 lb · Mentor, OH · Age 28 · 5th season

Micah Potter is a center for the Portland Trail Blazers who has played 111 games over 5 seasons, averaging 9.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 2025-26.

MVP race · #217Center rank · #47Balladex Impact · 56
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Micah Potter
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Portland Trail Blazers · #9 · Center
Micah Potter
Season avg9.7 pts · 5.0 reb · 1.5 ast · .515 fg
Career avg6.4 pts · 4.2 reb · 1.0 ast · .485 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
9.7pts
5.0reb
1.5ast
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Scouting report

Micah Potter — 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 56
Micah Potter is a center for the Portland Trail Blazers who has played 111 games over 5 seasons, averaging 9.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.5 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 Micah Potter 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%
5
Victor Wembanyama SAS▬
3%
6
Anthony Edwards MIN▬
2%
7
Tyrese Maxey PHI▬
2%
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Jamal Murray DEN▬
2%
✦ Balladex Consensus: #273 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
56Impact index
30Star score
Career scoring average6.4 ppg
Seasons in the index5
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

Micah Potter — every number, three levels deep

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

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Scoring
9.7 PPG
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Playmaking
1.5 APG
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Rebounding
5.0 RPG
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Shooting
.423 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees Micah Potter

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  63% confidence
11.5
pts
9.0–14.0
5.4
reb
4.2–6.6
1.8
ast
0.9–2.7
21.0
min
proj
39
gp
health
.488
fg%
~base
.396
3p%
~base
Bands widen as confidence drops. Derived live from the real 5-season history below.
What moves the points line vs last season
Last season 9.7 → projected 11.5 PPG
Minutes / role
+0.9
Development (his trend)
+0.8
Age curve
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Live context
+0.2
Net vs last season+1.8 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 28 — 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: 16 / 38 / 47 → games & confidence
health
The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

Micah Potter career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2021-22310.34.03.00.0.455.000
2022-2377.43.42.30.6.667.571
2023-241611.63.32.70.4.475.429
2024-253818.64.34.30.8.422.316
2025-264719.39.75.01.5.515.423
Career11117.06.44.21.0
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 Portland Trail Blazers built to win?

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

43–39proj record
#9conf seed
+0.6net rtg
113.6off rtg
113def rtg
54%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: Donovan Clingan, Jrue Holiday.
How his role moves
Projected 43–39, 9th in the West. Real team projection from the roster + last-season baselines. His usage, minutes and creation load move with roster health.
Balladex Impact
56 of 99
Rotation piece tier.
Rarity
◆ Rated
Collectible tier.
Résumé
0 accolades
Career honors on file.
Act IV

The Ballad of Micah Potter

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

1998-04-06

The beginning

Micah Potter is a center for the Portland Trail Blazers.

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Micah Potter is a center for the Portland Trail Blazers.

Chapter

He has played 111 games over 5 seasons (2021-26), averaging 17.0 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 47 games, averaging 9.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 19.3 minutes.

Where things stand

Where Potter goes from here.

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

Measurables ESPN
Active
Height
6' 9"
Weight
248 lbs
College
Wisconsin
Experience
6th Season
Born
Mentor, OH
Age
28
Jersey
#9
Beyond the game

Micah Potter is from Mentor, OH, born 1998-04-06, listed at 6'9" and 248 lb. He has 6 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 center on 17.0 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.

Rotation regular19.3 minutes a night in the rotation.
Floor spacerShooting 42.3% from three.
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FAQ

Micah Potter — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Micah Potter, answered.

What position does Micah Potter play?
Micah Potter is a center for the Portland Trail Blazers.
How many NBA games has Micah Potter played?
111 regular-season games over 5 seasons, averaging 17.0 minutes.
How many NBA seasons has Micah Potter played?
5 seasons (2021-26).
How tall is Micah Potter?
6'9", 248 lb
Micah Potter 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
27%
5 seasons
Last 3 seasons
41%
145 games missed
Games missed
299
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Injury-prone
improving
Availability by season
3
21-22
7
22-23
16
23-24
38
24-25
47
25-26

Injury-prone. Availability trend is improving — 41% of games over the last three seasons, low of 4% in 2021-22.

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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