Cade Cunningham projections

Cade Cunningham's rating today, where players like him usually go from here, and the players from the past who looked the most like him.

Ratings as of 2026-11-08. The typical path for each age comes from every season since 2005-06.

Cade Cunningham Detroit · age 25

Overall
+3.2
Offense
+2.1
Defense
+1.1

Past seasons, and the next five

-20+2+4+6+8age 20age 22age 24Todayage 26age 28age 30−0.0 in 5 seasons

Grey: his rating at the end of each past season. A hollow dot is a season under 500 minutes, so that rating rests on less.

Line: the typical path. Band: where 80% of players this age ended up. Rating is points per 100 possessions compared with an average player.

Still a rotation player
age 2688%age 2782%age 2875%age 2968%age 3060%

Share of players this age who were still playing 500+ minutes that season.

Why Cade Cunningham is rated +3.0

  • +3.0 means his teams score about 3.0 more points per 100 possessions with him than with an average player in his spot, after we account for who he plays with and against. That's the 22nd best of the 337 players we rate.
  • Most of it is offense: +1.9 there (30th of 337), +1.1 on defense (57th of 337).
  • It's built on 2,400 minutes from this season and last, and the recent games count more.
  • He's down 0.5 since opening night, when he was at +3.5.
  • He's playing about 33 minutes a game for Detroit, and last season he played like a star creator.

What if he plays better, or worse?

Slide his rating to where you think it should be. We replay Detroit's season 2,000 times with him there and everyone else as they are.

Our rating: +3.0

Detroit wins
57
Playoffs
>99%
Title
15%

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Players who looked like him at this age

Closest on offense, defense and playing style, within a year of his age. Their next five seasons:

  • John Wall 2015-16 · age 25Then+2.6+1+1.8+2+0.9+3−0.7+4out+5−0.4
  • Russell Westbrook 2012-13 · age 24Then+3.1+1+3.1+2+3.4+3+4.3+4+3.8+5+3.3
  • Jrue Holiday 2015-16 · age 26Then+2.9+1+1.9+2+3.8+3+5.3+4+2.8+5+2.4
  • Deron Williams 2007-08 · age 24Then+1.9+1+2.0+2+3.6+3+1.3+4−0.8+5+1.3
  • Dejounte Murray 2021-22 · age 25Then+1.5+1+0.8+2−1.0+3−1.6+4+0.2+5out

Playing like him today

The current players closest to him in how they play and how good they are.

See Detroit's odds and the rest of the roster

How the forecast works, and how often it's right

How it works: every season-end rating since 2005-06, and what the same players did one to five seasons later. The typical change only counts players still in the league, so the line is a little rosier than reality for older players; the rotation-player row shows how many dropped out. Our ratings, built from play-by-play data. Not affiliated with the NBA.