Professional DNA
Purvis Short: PROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
Scoring · 1989-90 · 82 games
70
percentil

The question
What kind of player is Purvis Short?
The evidence
Purvis Short · Scoring: 70th percentile (13.1 points per game)
Purvis Short: what moved most is Scoring
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 arePROFILE NOT COMPLETE YET
- RoleFull rotation: 27.0 minutes per game across 82 games
- What sets them apartScoring · 70th percentile
13.1 points per game
The axes, one by one
Every axis with its percentile against 332 players with a sample in 1989-90. An axis without enough sample says «no data» and is not filled in.
- Scoring70th percentile
13.1 points per game
- Playmaking53th percentile
1.8 assists per game
- Outside shootingno data
no data
- Defensive impact21th percentile
DBPM -0.9: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Finishing at the rimno data
no data
- Rebounding43th percentile
3.0 rebounds per game
Limitations
- Rebounding43th percentile
Average · 3.0 rebounds per game
- Defensive impact21th percentile
Very low · DBPM -0.9: defensive impact per 100 possessions compared with an average player
- Axes without enough sample
Outside shooting · Finishing at the rim
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
Recent change
Scoring: 99th percentile → 70th percentile (-29) · Playmaking: 73th percentile → 53th percentile (-20) · Rebounding: 70th percentile → 43th percentile (-27)
- 1984-8599th percentile
78 games · 39.5 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 99th percentile
- Playmaking
- 73th percentile
- Rebounding
- 70th percentile
- 1985-8699th percentile
64 games · 37.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 99th percentile
- Playmaking
- 80th percentile
- Rebounding
- 70th percentile
- 1986-8787th percentile
34 games · 27.9 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 87th percentile
- Playmaking
- 63th percentile
- Rebounding
- 61th percentile
- 1987-8877th percentile
81 games · 24.1 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 77th percentile
- Playmaking
- 58th percentile
- Rebounding
- 40th percentile
- 1988-8946th percentile
65 games · 17.8 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 46th percentile
- Playmaking
- 48th percentile
- Rebounding
- 41th percentile
- 1989-9070th percentile
82 games · 27.0 minutes per game
- Scoring
- 70th percentile
- Playmaking
- 53th percentile
- Rebounding
- 43th percentile
Context
1989-90 · 82 games · 27.0 minutes per game · Percentile against 332 measured players in 1989-90 · 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 1989-90 season, already closed. It is not what comes next.
- This DNA profile does not include movement or touch data.
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This answer
2026-11-06
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