Snapshot
- Role: sixth-man SG/SF, movement shooter, and secondary handler behind White, Knueppel, and Miller.
- 2025-26: 51 GP, 28.8 MPG; .403 FG · .857 FT · 3.1 3PM · 16.5 PTS · 3.0 REB · 3.8 AST · 1.4 STL · 0.3 BLK · 1.6 TO.
- Acquisition: traded from Phoenix with Royce O'Neale on July 13.
- Injury load: missed 32 games with multiple issues and ended the regular season with a left-hamstring injury.
2026-27 projection
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | 22.0 | .415 | .855 | 2.3 | 12.3 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
Nine-category: top 130-180; valuable threes and FT% but low rebounds/blocks. Points: top 150-200. Dynasty: outside the top 170; age and availability outweigh a useful contract/skill set.
Range
- Ceiling: Miller is delayed or Charlotte moves another veteran; 27 MPG, 15 PTS, three threes, 3.5 AST and one-plus steal—top 100-130.
- Median: low-20s sixth-man minutes and schedule streaming.
- Floor: recurrent soft-tissue injuries or a veteran reroute; fewer than 45 games and no standard-league utility.
Sources
- Official Allen/O'Neale acquisition — 2026-07-13.
- ESPN player statistics — accessed 2026-07-18; exact 2025-26 line.
- Bright Side season review — 2026-05-14; 32 missed games and contract context.
- Suns hamstring report — 2026-04-11.
- NBA player news — accessed 2026-07-18; postseason hamstring availability.
- Josh Lloyd Hornets role update — 2026-07-12; bench/no-draft-equity discussion around 32:50.
- Hashtag Basketball dynasty rankings — updated 2026-07-02; No. 174.
Career record
Pre-NBA: Duke, four seasons (2014-15 through 2017-18). 142 games, 14.1 points, 3.2 rebounds, 3.0 assists across the career. By season: 4.4 points on .425/.346/.849 as a freshman on the 2015 national title team (16 points off the bench in the championship game); 21.6 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists on .466/.417/.837 as a sophomore, which brought first-team All-ACC and third-team AP All-American; 14.5 points, 3.7 rebounds, 3.5 assists on .395/.365/.811 in a poor junior year that pushed him back for a fourth season; 15.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 4.6 assists on .418/.370/.850 as a senior, third-team All-ACC, on an Elite Eight team. He finished 12th on Duke's career scoring list with 1,996 points. Draft: 2018, first round, 21st overall by Utah; no draft-night trade.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 23 | UTA | 38 | 10.9 | 5.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | .376 | .750 | 0.9 |
| 2019-20 | 24 | MEM | 38 | 18.9 | 8.7 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.5 | .466 | .867 | 0.9 |
| 2020-21 | 25 | MEM | 50 | 25.2 | 10.6 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.1 | .418 | .868 | 1.0 |
| 2021-22 | 26 | MIL | 66 | 27.3 | 11.1 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.4 | .448 | .865 | 0.7 |
| 2022-23 | 27 | MIL | 72 | 27.4 | 10.4 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.0 | .440 | .905 | 1.0 |
| 2023-24 | 28 | PHX | 75 | 33.5 | 13.5 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.7 | .499 | .878 | 1.3 |
| 2024-25 | 29 | PHX | 64 | 24.1 | 10.6 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.3 | .448 | .816 | 1.2 |
| 2025-26 | 30 | PHX | 51 | 28.8 | 16.5 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 3.1 | .403 | .857 | 1.6 |
| Career | 454 | 25.8 | 11.2 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.2 | .443 | .857 | 1.1 |
Fantasy history: Season-end nine-category ranks are not verifiable from public sources for any of Allen's seasons, so none are asserted. The shape has been stable and legible throughout: elite free-throw percentage (career .857, including a .905 season in 2022-23), high three-point volume, low turnovers, and effectively nothing in rebounds, blocks, or — until last year — steals. His two best category seasons were almost certainly 2023-24, when a .499 field-goal percentage on 33.5 minutes made him a positive in every efficiency category at once, and 2025-26, when career highs in points, assists, threes and steals arrived alongside a .403 field-goal percentage that cancelled a good deal of it. Points leagues have generally rated him near where categories do, since his value is concentrated in counting stats he actually accumulates; the exception is 2023-24, where the field-goal percentage was worth materially more in nine-cat than in points. Hashtag's July 2026 dynasty list has him at No. 174.
Durability: 38, 38, 50, 66, 72, 75, 64, 51. Two clean seasons in eight. The 2019-20 year ended with a left hip displacement suffered against Detroit in late January 2020; Memphis ruled him out in early March, and only the COVID shutdown gave him enough recovery time to play in the Orlando bubble. He suffered an abdominal injury on May 5, 2021, late in the 2020-21 season. The 2025-26 bill was 32 games from a string of separate soft-tissue and knee problems: he played the first 13 games, then missed seven with a quad contusion, returned for five, missed another nine (quad contusion again, then a knee issue), lost 11 more across February and March to a second knee injury, and finally exited a loss to the Lakers with a left hamstring injury that cost him the regular-season finale and lingered into the postseason. The rookie-year 38 games were principally a rotation matter in Utah rather than injury. The pattern across the last two seasons is recurrent, multi-site soft-tissue breakdown at age 29-30, which is the least encouraging kind.
Trajectory: Allen's arc is a shooting specialist who kept adding secondary skills until his body stopped cooperating. The 2023-24 season was the peak — 33.5 minutes, 2.7 threes, and a .499 field-goal percentage that no volume shooter sustains, since it rested on an unrepeatable three-point rate. The 2025-26 counting-stat spike was a usage event created by Phoenix's roster collapse: 20.6 points per 36 minutes against 14.5 in 2023-24, on 27 starts, with the field-goal percentage falling to .403 as the shot diet got harder. Take the two together and the underlying player is what he has been since 2021 — roughly two-and-a-half threes, elite free throws, low turnovers, minimal rebounds or blocks, and shooting efficiency that swings hard with shot quality. At 30 turning 31, moving to a bench role in Charlotte behind three younger perimeter players, the counting stats should regress toward the 2024-25 shape while the efficiency indicators recover slightly on easier looks. The binding constraint for 2026-27 is not skill decline but games played, and the last two seasons have gone 64 and 51.
Career sources: ESPN career stats, StatMuse season-by-season, Wikipedia — Grayson Allen, Sports-Reference college stats, Bright Side of the Sun season review, 2026-05-14, CBS Sports — 2019-20 hip injury
Open questions
- Is Allen fully clear of the left-hamstring issue entering camp?
- Does Charlotte keep both Allen and O'Neale through the deadline if it falls from the play-in race?