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Riley Minix Cleveland Cavaliers · #12

Forward · 6'7", 230 lb · Vero Beach, FL · Age 26 · 3rd season

Riley Minix is a forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers who has played 10 games over 2 seasons, averaging 3.9 points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.6 assists in 2025-26.

MVP race · #586Forward rank · #168Balladex Impact · 50
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Cleveland Cavaliers · #12 · Forward
Riley Minix
Season avg4.3 pts · 0.7 reb · 0.7 ast · .588 fg
Career avg3.5 pts · 0.8 reb · 0.5 ast · .553 fg
Live win probabilitySeason
No scheduled game — showing season pace. Illustrative.
Tonight's projectionmodel
4.3pts
0.7reb
0.7ast
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Scouting report

Riley Minix — 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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Forward · Rotation piece · Impact 50
Riley Minix is a forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers who has played 10 games over 2 seasons, averaging 3.9 points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.6 assists in 202
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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 Riley Minix 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: #453 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
20Star score
Career scoring average3.5 ppg
Seasons in the index3
Accolades on file0
Stat explorer

Riley Minix — every number, three levels deep

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

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Scoring
4.3 PPG
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Playmaking
0.7 APG
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Rebounding
0.7 RPG
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Shooting
.333 3P%
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The engine

How the model sees Riley Minix

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  57% confidence
5.1
pts
2.5–7.7
0.7
reb
-0.4–1.8
0.8
ast
-0.2–1.8
8.0
min
proj
30
gp
health
.409
fg%
~base
.222
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 3.9 → projected 5.1 PPG
Minutes / role
+0.9
Development (his trend)
+0.3
Age curve
+0.0
Live context
+0.1
Net vs last season+1.3 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 26 — 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: 1 / 3 / 6 → games & confidence
health
The real history it trains onsource: Basketball-Reference · verified

Riley Minix career stats, season by season

Career stats by season
SeasonGPMINPTSREBASTFG%3P%
2024-2517.00.02.00.0.000.000
2025-26 (San Antonio)33.03.00.70.3.667.333
2025-26 (Cleveland)68.34.30.70.7.588.333
Career106.63.50.80.5
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 Cleveland Cavaliers built to win?

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

52–30proj record
#5conf seed
+4.4net rtg
118.5off rtg
113.9def rtg
96%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: Jarrett Allen, Peyton Watson.
How his role moves
Projected 52–30, 5th 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 Riley Minix

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

2000-09-22

The beginning

Riley Minix is a forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Riley Minix is a forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Chapter

He has played 10 games over 2 seasons (2024-26), averaging 6.6 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 9 games across 2 teams, averaging 3.9 points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.6 assists in 6.5 minutes.

Where things stand

Where Minix goes from here.

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

Measurables ESPN
Active
Height
6' 7"
Weight
230 lbs
College
Morehead State
Experience
3rd Season
Born
Vero Beach, FL
Age
26
Jersey
#12
Beyond the game

Riley Minix is from Vero Beach, FL, born 2000-09-22, listed at 6'7" and 230 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 forward on 6.6 career minutes a night, read from the box score rather than the eye test.

Bench depth6.5 minutes a night; situational.
Floor spacerShooting 33.3% from three.
Verified profiles & sources
FAQ

Riley Minix — frequently asked

The questions people ask most about Riley Minix, answered.

What position does Riley Minix play?
Riley Minix is a forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
How many NBA games has Riley Minix played?
10 regular-season games over 2 seasons, averaging 6.6 minutes.
How many NBA seasons has Riley Minix played?
2 seasons (2024-26).
How tall is Riley Minix?
6'7", 230 lb
Riley Minix 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
9%
3 seasons
Last 3 seasons
9%
143 games missed
Games missed
143
career, schedule-adj.
Durability
Injury-prone
steady
Availability by season
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24-25
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25-26 (San Antonio)
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25-26 (Cleveland)

Injury-prone. Availability trend is steady — 9% of games over the last three seasons, low of 1% 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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