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PJ Hall Charlotte Hornets · #16

Center · 6'8", 245 lb · Spartanburg, SC · Age 24 · 3rd season

PJ Hall is a center for the Charlotte Hornets who has played 38 games over 2 seasons, averaging 4.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 0.6 assists in 2025-26.

MVP race · #579Center rank · #60Balladex Impact · 56
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Charlotte Hornets · #16 · Center
PJ Hall
Season avg6.1 pts · 5.5 reb · 0.7 ast · .500 fg
Career avg3.1 pts · 2.6 reb · 0.4 ast · .552 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
6.1pts
5.5reb
0.7ast
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Scouting report

PJ Hall — 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
PJ Hall is a center for the Charlotte Hornets who has played 38 games over 2 seasons, averaging 4.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 0.6 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 PJ Hall 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: #348 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
56Impact index
23Star score
Career scoring average3.1 ppg
Seasons in the index3
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

PJ Hall — every number, three levels deep

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

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Scoring
6.1 PPG
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Playmaking
0.7 APG
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Rebounding
5.5 RPG
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Shooting
1.000 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees PJ Hall

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  47% confidence
4.7
pts
1.6–7.8
4.4
reb
2.8–6.0
0.6
ast
-0.6–1.8
12.3
min
proj
30
gp
health
.542
fg%
~base
.586
3p%
~base
Bands widen as confidence drops. Derived live from the real 2-season history below.
What moves the points line vs last season
Last season 4.6 → projected 4.7 PPG
Minutes / role
+0.4
Development (his trend)
-0.5
Age curve
+0.1
Live context
+0.1
Net vs last season+0.1 PPG
Everything it reads
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3 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
auto
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Weighted least-squares trend
his own trajectory, read season over season
+dev
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Per-stat aging curves
age 24 — 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: 19 / 7 / 12 → games & confidence
health
The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

PJ Hall career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2024-25193.51.71.20.2.583.250
2025-26 (Memphis)73.71.91.30.3.556.333
2025-26 (Charlotte)1215.76.15.50.7.5001.000
Career387.43.12.60.4
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 Charlotte Hornets built to win?

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

56–26proj record
#4conf seed
+5.6net rtg
118.7off rtg
113.2def rtg
99%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: Moussa Diabate, Naz Reid.
How his role moves
Projected 56–26, 4th in the East. 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 PJ Hall

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

2002-02-21

The beginning

PJ Hall is a center for the Charlotte Hornets.

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PJ Hall is a center for the Charlotte Hornets.

Chapter

He has played 38 games over 2 seasons (2024-26), averaging 7.4 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 19 games across 2 teams, averaging 4.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 0.6 assists in 11.3 minutes.

Where things stand

Where Hall goes from here.

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

Measurables ESPN
Active
Height
6' 8"
Weight
245 lbs
College
Clemson
Experience
3rd Season
Born
Spartanburg, SC
Age
24
Jersey
#16
Beyond the game

PJ Hall is from Spartanburg, SC, born 2002-02-21, listed at 6'8" and 245 lb. He has 3 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 7.4 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.

Bench depth11.3 minutes a night; situational.
Floor spacerShooting 100.0% from three.
Verified profiles & sources
FAQ

PJ Hall — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about PJ Hall, answered.

What position does PJ Hall play?
PJ Hall is a center for the Charlotte Hornets.
How many NBA games has PJ Hall played?
38 regular-season games over 2 seasons, averaging 7.4 minutes.
How many NBA seasons has PJ Hall played?
2 seasons (2024-26).
How tall is PJ Hall?
6'8", 245 lb
PJ Hall 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
22%
3 seasons
Last 3 seasons
22%
131 games missed
Games missed
131
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Injury-prone
steady
Availability by season
19
24-25
7
25-26 (Memphis)
12
25-26 (Charlotte)

Injury-prone. Availability trend is steady — 22% of games over the last three seasons, low of 16% in 2025-26 (Memphis).

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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