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Jae'Sean Tate

Houston Rockets · #8 · Reserve
SF6'4"230 lbage 306 yrs expOhio StatePickerington, OH
14th best of 14 on HOU
OFF61DEF81
Elite perimeter defender & rebounder
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Houston Rockets
Western · Southwest · proj. 60-22 (▲+4.9)
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A tough, undersized do-it-all wing whose value was always in versatile defense, cutting and connective playmaking. With no 2025-26 sample to grade, he reaches free agency as a known glue-guy type — physical and unselfish, but without the shooting to hold a steady rotation spot.

4.1
PPG
3
RPG
1
APG
0.6
SPG
0.2
BPG
GP 65MPG 15.9FG% 47.23P% 29.9FT% 66.7TS% 53.8USG% 11.7PER 9.3BPM -2.3VORP -0.1
2023-24 regular season · bars are percentile at his position

NBA player ratings

0–99 · 2023-24 form
Perimeter defense95
Rebounding80
Inside finishing79
Playmaking71
Rim protection69
Scoring54
Shooting53

Skill ratings are 2023-24 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

2020-21 to 2025-26 · 6 seasons
7.5
PPG
3.8
RPG
1.8
APG
342
GAMES
Points 2,578Win Shares 11.7Starts 154Best season 2020-21 · 11.3 ppg
Games played, last three seasons66%

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

2023-24 → 2025-26 · age 28 → 30
▬Steady

Jae'Sean, at 30, has held steady — 1.0 → 0.8 wins of value over the window.

2026-27 forecast▬ 1.1 wins (+0.3)
Assumes a normal season; he played 46 games last year. Age takes about 0.5 wins off at 31. Range 0.0–2.3 wins.
Production (BPM)-2.3 → -3.9-1.626-27 forecast -2.7
Only 405 minutes last season, too few to call a trend.
2023-24: -2.3 · 65 games2024-25: -0.7 · 52 games2025-26: -3.9 · 46 games2026-27: -2.7 (forecast)23-2425-2626-27
Value to team (wins)1.0 → 0.8-0.226-27 forecast 1.1
His value to a team has been stable.
2023-24: 1.0 · 65 games2024-25: 1.6 · 52 games2025-26: 0.8 · 46 games2026-27: 1.1 (forecast)23-2425-2626-27
Contract value2026-27: worth $2.9M vs $3.1M salary−$0.2M
He is paid about what his play is projected to be worth.
$3.1M salary2023-24: $2.8M · 65 games2024-25: $3.8M · 52 games2025-26: $2.5M · 46 games2026-27: $2.9M (forecast)23-2425-2626-27
Current deal: $3,070,000 cap hit · through '27. 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 (2023-24 → 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
$3,070,000Guaranteed
1% of the club’s payroll · 11th of 12 priced deals
Runs through1 season
Est. market value$2,904,035 /yr
Surplus−$165,965
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.

2026-27 off-season

1 move

OFFICIAL means the league’s own records carry the move; AGREED means a trusted insider reported it and the league has not processed it yet. Terms and attribution come from the wire, which is the only source that carries 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.