How These Depth Charts Are Maintained
These charts are maintained by rule, not copied from a single feed. Every team’s rotation is reviewed multiple times a day during the season, and an injury designation only appears on the page after it passes the checks below. The same rules are applied to all 30 teams, on every update, all season.
- Official report first. Designations are cross-checked against the official NBA injury report. A player with no designation — or one listed Probable or Available — is shown healthy, even if older reports or news blurbs still tag him as hurt.
- The game-played check. A player who logged minutes in his team’s most recent game is cleared, no matter what an injury page still says. Dressing but not playing does not clear him.
- Red means multi-game. “Injured” (red) is reserved for absences longer than one game — week-to-week or worse. “Day-to-Day” (light red) covers single-game absences and Questionable or Probable tags.
- Long-term. A strikethrough marks a player who is out for the season or until very late in the season.
- Minutes from box scores. The MPG and GP columns are current-season only, rebuilt nightly from official box scores. A player who has not appeared yet shows “--”.
About This Site — and How to Read the Charts
NBA Depth Charts tracks the rotations of all 30 NBA teams in one place: starters, second and third units, injury status, current-season minutes and games played, and each team’s upcoming first-round draft picks. It is an independent basketball data project, updated daily throughout the season.
Reading a chart
- Name colors: blue = new team this season; purple = rookie; italic = two-way contract. The number in parentheses after a rookie’s name is his draft position.
- Cell colors: light red = Day-to-Day; red = Injured; red with a strikethrough = long-term absence; pink = an OPEN roster spot.
- MPG / GP: current-season minutes per game and games played. “--” means he has not played yet this season.
- Pick arrows: ↑ = the most favorable (best) pick listed for that year; ↓ = the least favorable. See the Draft Pick Key above the charts.
FAQ
How often is this updated? Multiple times a day during the season. Injury checks run in the morning, evening, and night, and the minutes columns are rebuilt every night from that day’s box scores.
Where does the injury information come from? The official NBA injury report is the primary source, cross-checked against team reporting and confirmed by box scores — if a player actually took the floor in his last game, he is not listed as hurt here.
Why does a player show “--” for MPG and GP? He has not appeared in a regular-season game yet this season. Those columns count 2026-27 games only; they fill in the night he makes his debut.
What do the arrows next to the draft picks mean? When a team controls more than one possible pick in a year, ↑ marks the most favorable outcome and ↓ the least favorable, based on the protections and swap rights attached to the picks.