Yuta Watanabe played 6 seasons (2019–2024) for MEM, TOR, BKN and PHX. Career regular-season line: 888 points, 493 rebounds and 135 assists. Shooting Star career, peaking in 2023.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | George Washington | 35 | 10 | 22.5 | 38.4% | 34.8% | 83.1% | 3.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 7.4 |
| 2016 | George Washington | 38 | 37 | 27.7 | 42.2% | 30.6% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 45.5th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNBA JourneymenNBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNBA LoyaltyNBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.
Fan Rating
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5 seasons · peak 0.9 in 2023
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NBA season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
0.8 career wins over 5 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 2023 · +0.5 wins
Latest season · 2024 · −0.8 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NBA player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Yuta Watanabe led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Shooting Star
One or two seasons that define the entire career — brief but incandescent. Peak 2023, 5 rated seasons.
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| 70.7% |
| 4.0 |
| 1.4 |
| 0.6 |
| 1.1 |
| 8.4 |
| 2017 | George Washington | 28 | 27 | 35.1 | 44.4% | 31.4% | 81.7% | 4.8 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 12.2 |
| 2018 | George Washington | 33 | 33 | 36.6 | 43.7% | 36.4% | 80.7% | 6.1 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 16.3 |
Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 6 seasons (2019–2024) — a true nomad. The crest trail: