Who gains without Butler and Porziņģis
With Butler and Porziņģis both out (20 games like this since last season (he played 16 of them)), Santos played 28 minutes (usually 21) and took 2 more shots than usual; our estimate: 27 minutes (Likely).
Butler has missed 10 of the team's last 10; Porziņģis has missed 8 of the team's last 10, so most of their minutes are already in everyone's recent numbers.
- 28 minutes and 27 fantasy points a game in the 16 games he played with both out
- came in for 20% of the times one of them left a game
- +16 minutes in 16 games without Butler alone since last season
- −2 minutes in 5 games without Porziņģis alone since last season
- 31 minutes and 27 fantasy points a game in the 7 games he played with both out
- +4 minutes in 17 games without Butler alone since last season
- 32 minutes and 32 fantasy points a game in the 18 games he played with both out
- came in for 16% of the times one of them left a game
- +2 minutes in 17 games without Butler alone since last season
- De'Anthony Melton23 → 24 min · 11 → 13 shots24 → 26 fpts
- Gary Payton II15 → 17 min · 6 → 8 shots16 → 18 fptsWorth watching
- Malevy Leons10 → 12 min · 3 → 3 shots9 → 10 fpts
- Al Horford21 → 23 min · 7 → 8 shots21 → 23 fpts
- LJ Cryer14 → 14 min · 6 → 7 shots11 → 11 fpts
- Georges Niang19 → 19 min · 7 → 7 shots14 → 14 fpts
- Graham Ike13 → 13 min · 7 → 7 shots17 → 17 fpts
- Charles Bassey14 → 14 min · 5 → 5 shots18 → 18 fpts
- Brandon Williams16 → 16 min · 11 → 11 shots20 → 20 fpts
- Yaxel Lendeborg32 → 32 min · 17 → 17 shots34 → 34 fpts
- Stephen Curry31 → 29 min · 21 → 20 shots40 → 40 fpts
- Will Richard20 → 20 min · 5 → 5 shots14 → 14 fpts
- Draymond Green28 → 28 min · 7 → 7 shots25 → 24 fpts
How this works, and how often it's rightShowHide
We start from each teammate's recent minutes, shots and fantasy points since last season, then hand out the minutes the missing players have been playing: mostly to whoever came in when each of them left a game, and to whoever played more when each one sat on his own, with a small nudge toward the same position. Minutes a player already lost while someone was out are not counted twice. Shots move with how often each teammate finished plays when none of the missing players were on the floor. When the exact group has sat together 4 or more times, those games count too.
We checked it on 1,183 games in 2025-26 where a team had two or more rotation players out, using only games played before each one. Our minutes were off by 5.2 a player on average in games from February on, against 6.06 using season averages and 9.41 adding up each missing player's own "who gains" numbers. Fantasy points: off by 8.12, against 8.59 and 12.48. Our biggest predicted minutes gainer was one of the night's two biggest gainers 52% of the time (adding up single-player numbers: 37%).
Likely means 6 or more minutes over his usual: 79% of those players really did play at least 2 more. Lean (3.5 to 6 more): 65%. Worth watching (2 to 3.5 more): 52%. Blowouts, foul trouble and coaches' whims make any one night noisy.
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Tap a name to sit him or bring him back- Yaxel Lendeborg32 min · 6 games
- Jimmy Butler III31 min · 38 games
- Stephen Curry31 min · 48 games
- Brandin Podziemski29 min · 86 games
- Draymond Green28 min · 73 games
- Moses Moody26 min · 60 games
- Kristaps Porziņģis24 min · 15 games
- De'Anthony Melton23 min · 55 games
- Al Horford21 min · 50 games
- Gui Santos21 min · 73 games
- Will Richard20 min · 75 games
- Georges Niang19 min · 6 games
- Brandon Williams16 min · 6 games
- Gary Payton II15 min · 79 games
- LJ Cryer14 min · 22 games
- Charles Bassey14 min · 9 games
- Graham Ike13 min · 4 games
- Malevy Leons10 min · 29 games
New to the team, no games with them in our sample yet: Tyler Burton, Alex Toohey, Dalen Terry. They will take some of these minutes, and we can't say how many until they play.