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Dalton Knecht

Los Angeles Lakers · #4 · Reserve
SF6'6"215 lbage 252 yrs expTennesseeThornton, CO
11th best of 15 on LAL
OFF75DEF64
High-level interior finisher & shooter
LAL
Los Angeles Lakers
Western · Pacific · proj. 49-33 (▲+17.2)
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A flame-throwing wing scorer whose 2025-26 didn't produce a gradeable sample here. The pedigree is the jumper — a high-volume shooter drafted to put points on the board in a hurry, still rounding out the rest of the game at 25 on a team option.

9.1
PPG
2.8
RPG
0.8
APG
0.3
SPG
0.1
BPG
GP 78MPG 19.2FG% 46.13P% 37.6FT% 76.2TS% 59.4USG% 18.5PER 12.7BPM -1.8VORP 0.1EPM -0.8
2024-25 regular season · bars are percentile at his position

NBA player ratings

0–99 · 2024-25 form
Inside finishing91
Shooting79
Scoring76
Rebounding63
Playmaking62
Perimeter defense54
Rim protection52

Skill ratings are 2024-25 per-game and advanced stats (Basketball-Reference) ranked 0–99 within position (guards vs guards, bigs vs bigs). Overall is anchored to EPM impact on a non-linear curve, nudged by these skills; Offense and Defense come from box plus-minus. A player who missed the latest season is shown from his most recent one.

Career

2024-25 to 2025-26 · 2 seasons
7.1
PPG
2.2
RPG
0.7
APG
132
GAMES
Points 934Win Shares 3.1Starts 17Best season 2024-25 · 9.1 ppg

Regular season, 2003-04 onward (Basketball-Reference). Averages are weighted by games played; honours count awards won, not finishes. “Current players” means the 802 who played in the last three seasons.

Trajectory

2024-25 → 2025-26 · age 23 → 24
▼Declining

Dalton, at 24, is trending downward — -1.8 → -3.6 box plus-minus over the window.

Age curve▼ Behind curve
Developing slower than his age would suggest.
2026-27 forecast▲ 2.2 wins (+1.4)
Assumes a normal season; he played 54 games last year. Age should add a little at 25. Range 1.4–3.0 wins.
Production (BPM)-1.8 → -3.6-1.826-27 forecast -2.2
His on-court production has slipped.
2024-25: -1.8 · 78 games2025-26: -3.6 · 54 games2026-27: -2.2 (forecast)24-2525-2626-27
Value to team (wins)1.4 → 0.8-0.626-27 forecast 2.2
His value to a team has been stable.
2024-25: 1.4 · 78 games2025-26: 0.8 · 54 games2026-27: 2.2 (forecast)24-2525-2626-27
Contract value2026-27: worth $4.9M vs $4.2M salary+$0.7M
He is paid about what his play is projected to be worth.
$4.2M salary2024-25: $3.4M · 78 games2025-26: $2.5M · 54 games2026-27: $4.9M (forecast)24-2525-2626-27
Current deal: $4,201,080 cap hit · through '28. On the contract row the flat dashed line is this salary, so the gap to the 2026-27 forecast is the surplus.

Seasons from Basketball-Reference (2024-25 → 2025-26). Production is box plus-minus, a per-possession measure. Value is VORP-based wins, so it also counts games played. Contract value is what each season’s play would fetch on the open market. The dotted 2026-27 point is a forecast: his established level, a year older, assuming a normal season.

Contract

2026-27
$4,201,080Team option
2% of the club’s payroll · 10th of 16 priced deals
Runs through2 seasons
Est. market value$4,932,000 /yr
Surplus+$730,920
FAIR VALUEpaid about what he is worth

Market value is an estimate, not a reported figure: what his play is forecast to fetch on the open market in 2026-27 — his current rating, a year older. Cap thresholds are projected for 2026-27 until the league sets them.

Plays like

same position

Nearest skill profiles across the seven rating axes — who he plays like, not who is as good. The rating beside each name answers that second question.