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Cayden Boozer

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Cayden Boozer

PG · Duke

Playmaking wing

What college players who played like him went on to do · NCAA 2026 (38 games, 22.8 min)

Outlook computed on 13 Sept 2026 · Draft 2027

NBA reach history

29 / 300 — Of the 300 college players who genuinely resembled him, 29 reached the NBA

What became of them

Highest career in the cohort
Russell Westbrook
NCAA 2008 · pick #4 in 2008
18 seasons · 1301 games · peak 36.5 min / 25.4 pts
Median career in the cohort
Marquis Teague
NCAA 2012 · pick #29 in 2012
3 seasons · 91 games · peak 11 min / 2.7 pts
Lower quartile of the cohort
Cedric Bozeman
NCAA 2006 · undrafted
1 seasons · 23 games · peak 9 min / 1.1 pts

Very close comps · 25 NBA analogs · median distance 1.734

Style comps

Donald Sloan
Closeness: High · d 1.106
NCAA 2007 · undrafted · 5 seasons, 218 games

What do they share? doesn't crash the offensive glass · light on the glass

Yogi Ferrell
Closeness: Medium · d 1.322
NCAA 2013 · undrafted · 5 seasons, 259 games

What do they share? creates for others · doesn't crash the offensive glass · light on the glass

Armon Johnson
Closeness: Medium · d 1.49
NCAA 2008 · pick #34 in 2010 · 2 seasons, 47 games

What do they share? creates for others · doesn't crash the offensive glass

Similarity of STYLE, not of quality: it measures how someone plays, not who is better. Every career in the cohort actually happened — it describes what became of similar profiles, and is not a forecast about this player.

Back-tested on 3,259 college players judged without looking at anything after their season. The reach history SEPARATES (AUC 0.71) — but mostly it tells "looks like an NBA player" from "doesn't": within each quintile AUC drops to 0.51-0.61, and among Draft Combine invitees to 0.50. The ordering of careers within the cohort does NOT hold (Spearman 0.10). It is a record, not a forecast.

Method: per-40-minute production and shot profile, standardized within his own season; Euclidean distance against 26.550 college seasons from 2005-2021 with a known NBA outcome. No language model in any decision.

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