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Dean Wade: DEFENSIVE ANCHOR

Defensive impact · 2025-26 · 59 games

83

percentil

Dean Wade
Confidence: lowData through: 2025-26

The question

What kind of player is Dean Wade?

The evidence

Dean Wade · Defensive impact: 83th percentile (DBPM 1.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player)

83 percentilcompared against: 50 percentil (+33) · 452 players with a sample in 2025-26

Dean Wade: what moved most is Rebounding

60 percentilcompared against: 40 percentil (+20) · Dean Wade, from 2020-21 to 2022-23

The read

What they are, the role they held and what sets them apart. Every line comes from a figure further down this same page.

  • What they areDEFENSIVE ANCHOR
  • RoleFull rotation: 22.3 minutes per game across 59 games
  • What sets them apartDefensive impact · 83th percentile

    DBPM 1.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

The axes, one by one

Every axis with its percentile against 452 players with a sample in 2025-26. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.

  • Scoring28th percentile

    5.8 points per game

  • Playmaking41th percentile

    1.5 assists per game

  • Outside shooting64th percentile

    36.2 % from three · 196 attempts

  • Defensive impact83th percentile

    DBPM 1.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

  • Finishing at the rim50th percentile

    67.6 % · 74 attempts

  • Rebounding65th percentile

    4.2 rebounds per game

Strengths

  • Defensive impact83th percentile

    Very high · DBPM 1.2: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player

Limitations

Recent change

Scoring: 30th percentile → 28th percentile (-2) · Playmaking: 34th percentile → 41th percentile (+7) · Rebounding: 46th percentile → 65th percentile (+19)

  • 2020-2146th percentile

    63 games · 19.2 minutes per game

    Scoring
    30th percentile
    Playmaking
    34th percentile
    Rebounding
    46th percentile
  • 2021-2234th percentile

    51 games · 19.2 minutes per game

    Scoring
    23th percentile
    Playmaking
    26th percentile
    Rebounding
    34th percentile
  • 2022-2348th percentile

    44 games · 20.3 minutes per game

    Scoring
    20th percentile
    Playmaking
    15th percentile
    Rebounding
    48th percentile
  • 2023-2462th percentile

    54 games · 20.5 minutes per game

    Scoring
    31th percentile
    Playmaking
    17th percentile
    Rebounding
    62th percentile
  • 2024-2564th percentile

    59 games · 21.2 minutes per game

    Scoring
    26th percentile
    Playmaking
    33th percentile
    Rebounding
    64th percentile
  • 2025-2665th percentile

    59 games · 22.3 minutes per game

    Scoring
    28th percentile
    Playmaking
    41th percentile
    Rebounding
    65th percentile

Context

2025-26 · 59 games · 22.3 minutes per game · Percentile against 452 measured players in 2025-26 · SportiveWorld own data

FactDerivedAssumption

What this does not prove

  • Percentiles compare inside the NBA. Outside it they do not mean the same thing.
  • It portrays the 2025-26 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
  • This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.

From here

Where it comes from

Source

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This answer

2026-10-13

Where this comes from

Season averages · closed season · its clock is the seasonBox scores · closed season · its clock is the season
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