Zeke Nnaji

6'10"240 lb

Born 2001-01-09 (Age: 22)Pre-NBA: Arizona

2020Rd 1Pk 22DEN

Per game average

Season	PPG	APG	RPG	TS%
2026-27	-	-	-	-
2025-26	3.7	0.6	2.6	55.8%
2024-25	3.2	0.4	1.6	57.4%
2023-24	3.2	0.6	2.2	52.8%
2022-23	5.2	0.3	2.6	62.0%

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2026-27 · DEN

Drafted by the Nuggets with the 22nd pick in 2020. How they got him

2022-23 percentile ranking

20-2125-26

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Season stats

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Season	Tm	G	PTS	AST	TRB	MP	ORB	DRB	TOV	PF
2025-26	DEN	52	3.7	0.6	2.6	12.0	0.6	2.0	0.5	1.4
2024-25	DEN	57	3.2	0.4	1.6	10.7	0.6	1.0	0.2	1.1
2023-24	DEN	58	3.2	0.6	2.2	9.9	1.1	1.1	0.5	1.4
2022-23	DEN	53	5.2	0.3	2.6	13.7	1.2	1.4	0.6	2.0
2021-22	DEN	41	6.6	0.4	3.6	17.0	1.4	2.2	0.6	1.9
2020-21	DEN	42	3.2	0.2	1.5	9.5	0.3	1.2	0.2	0.7

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Contract

$14.9M over 2 seasons through 2027-28 · $7.5M guaranteed

DEN payroll

Projected surplus

-$6.6M

80% range -$12.3M to +$6.8M

Estimated worth

$11.0M

Against $14.9M in salary

Among contracts

27th percentile

By total surplus, of 406 we can estimate

Paid more than he's projected to be worth in every season.

Surplus

2026-27Paid $7.5M, worth about $4.9M (likely $1.3M to $14.2M)

Salary
Estimated worth
Likely range (80%)
Gain or loss

Season	Salary	Est. worth	80% range	Surplus	Notes
2026-27	$7.5M	$4.9M	$1.3M–$14.2M	-$2.5M	—
2027-28Player option	$7.5M	$6.1M	$1.4M–$18.1M	-$4.0M	Player option

Worth is projected from DRBL wins over 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 (7,256 possessions). Surplus is worth minus salary, after options.

2027-28 is a player option. Signed 4-yr/$32M contract extension October 23, 2023.

How this works

Worth is what his projected DRBL wins would cost on the open market. We count wins above a minimum-salary player in the same minutes and price them at what teams paid per DRBL win from 2020-21 to 2025-26: 9.8% of the cap, about $16.2M in 2026-27.

Projections weight his last 3 seasons 3, 2 and 1, newest first, and pull toward what players at his salary usually produce, then adjust for age. Playing time comes from recent minutes, age and salary, since teams play the players they pay. A season lost to injury still pulls the playing time down.

Surplus is worth minus salary. A team can always bench a player, so worth never drops below the minimum salary. A player option leaves the team only the downside, because he walks when he could earn more. A team option or a non-guaranteed year leaves only the upside.

To test it, we refit the model three times, each with only the seasons through 2022-23, 2023-24 or 2024-25, valued what players were actually paid afterward, and compared with what they did. The typical miss the next season was 0.91 wins, against 1.09 for assuming a player repeats his last season. Three seasons out it was 1.18 wins, against 1.54. 12% of players beat the top of the range. Fewer than 2% fell below the bottom, since worth can't drop under the minimum salary.

Cap figures after 2026-27 assume 5.8% growth a year, the recent average. The percentile compares total surplus across the 406 current contracts we can estimate.

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Season	Age	Tm	Pos	G	GS	Impact												Profile								Shooting														Defense								Hustle						Advanced
Season	Age	Tm	Pos	G	GS	DARKO	DARKO-O	DARKO-D	RAPTOR	O-RAPTOR	D-RAPTOR	WAR	WAR1	VORP	DRBL/100	DRBL-O	DRBL-D	MP	PTS	TRB	ORB	DRB	AST	TOV	PF	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	eFG%	TS%	STL	BLK	STL%	BLK%	DRB%	DRtg	DBPM	DWS	Defl	Contest	ScrAst	Chrg	Loose	BoxOut	3PAr	FTr	USG%	TOV%	AST%	ORB%	TRB%	AST/TO	ORtg	NET	PER	OWS	WS	WS/48	OBPM	BPM
2025-26	25	DEN	PF	52	4	-1.59	-2.72	1.13	-	-	-	-	-0.7	-0.3	-0.7	-0.8	-1.2	12.0	3.7	2.6	0.6	2.0	0.6	0.5	1.4	1.4	2.9	47.0%	0.3	1.0	25.9%	1.1	1.9	58.8%	0.7	0.8	77.3%	51.7%	55.8%	0.3	0.5	1.3%	3.6%	17.6%	116.0	-	0.7	0.8	3.4	1.1	0.0	0.2	0.3	35.8%	0.291	13.7%	13.7%	5.9%	6.2%	12.2%	1.20	111.0	-5.0	10.3	0.2	0.9	0.066	-3.6	-3.5
2024-25	24	DEN	PF	57	4	-2.94	-2.75	-0.19	-	-	-	-	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	10.7	3.2	1.6	0.6	1.0	0.4	0.2	1.1	1.2	2.5	49.6%	0.3	0.9	32.7%	0.9	1.6	59.6%	0.5	0.8	61.4%	55.7%	57.4%	0.4	0.7	2.0%	5.6%	9.8%	114.0	0.7	0.6	0.7	3.2	0.6	0.0	0.2	0.4	36.9%	0.312	12.2%	8.0%	4.6%	6.3%	8.1%	2.00	120.0	6.0	12.0	0.6	1.2	0.097	-2.1	-1.3
2023-24	23	DEN	PF	58	0	-1.23	-1.49	0.26	-	-	-	-	-1.2	-0.2	-1.1	-1.7	-1.5	9.9	3.2	2.2	1.1	1.1	0.6	0.5	1.4	1.2	2.6	46.3%	0.1	0.4	26.1%	1.1	2.2	50.0%	0.7	1.1	67.7%	48.3%	52.8%	0.3	0.7	1.3%	5.6%	12.2%	112.0	0.1	0.8	0.6	3.7	1.5	-	0.1	0.6	15.4%	0.416	15.4%	13.3%	7.0%	12.1%	12.1%	1.20	113.0	1.0	12.4	0.4	1.2	0.099	-3.8	-3.7
2022-23	22	DEN	PF	53	5	-1.99	-1.60	-0.39	-	-	-	-	-0.1	-0.3	-0.1	0.2	-0.4	13.7	5.2	2.6	1.2	1.4	0.3	0.6	2.0	2.1	3.7	56.1%	0.3	1.2	26.2%	1.8	2.5	71.0%	0.8	1.2	64.5%	60.5%	62.0%	0.3	0.4	1.1%	2.8%	11.2%	115.0	-0.9	0.7	0.6	3.8	1.1	-	0.2	0.6	33.2%	0.316	15.2%	12.2%	3.3%	10.5%	10.9%	0.50	120.0	5.0	12.5	0.9	1.6	0.106	-2.7	-3.7
2021-22	21	DEN	PF	41	1	-1.99	-0.71	-1.28	-2.35	-0.85	-1.50	0.14	-0.0	-	-0.0	1.2	-1.2	17.0	6.6	3.6	1.4	2.2	0.4	0.6	1.9	2.3	4.5	51.6%	0.9	2.0	46.3%	1.4	2.5	55.7%	1.0	1.6	63.1%	61.6%	62.9%	0.4	0.3	1.1%	1.7%	14.1%	113.0	-1.6	0.6	0.8	3.7	1.0	-	0.4	1.3	43.0%	0.349	14.9%	9.7%	3.4%	9.3%	11.8%	0.67	123.0	10.0	13.5	1.2	1.8	0.123	-0.7	-2.2
2020-21	20	DEN	PF	42	1	-2.54	-2.36	-0.17	-5.10	-2.28	-2.82	-0.49	-0.1	-	-0.1	0.9	-1.2	9.5	3.2	1.5	0.3	1.2	0.2	0.2	0.7	1.2	2.5	48.1%	0.6	1.4	40.7%	0.6	1.1	57.8%	0.3	0.4	80.0%	59.6%	61.5%	0.2	0.1	1.0%	1.0%	14.5%	115.0	-1.1	0.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	56.7%	0.144	12.9%	6.0%	3.3%	4.0%	9.3%	1.00	124.0	9.0	11.3	0.6	0.9	0.104	-0.6	-1.7

Zeke Nnaji

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