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Duncan Robinson

Duncan Robinson remains an efficient volume-three specialist, but Detroit's additions of Isaiah Joe and John Collins reduce his path to the 27-minute workload that made him useful in 2025-26.

Team: Detroit Pistons · Age: 32 · Position: SF · As of: 2026-07-18

2026-27 median projection

GP MPG FG% FT% 3PM PTS REB AST STL BLK TO
70 21.0 .450 .820 2.3 9.8 2.1 1.7 0.5 0.2 0.6

Nine-cat: late-round threes and low-turnover specialist. Points: C. Dynasty: 4.0/10 because the skill is durable but the age and role are not.

Role and evidence

Robinson averaged 12.2 points, 2.9 threes, 2.7 rebounds, and 2.1 assists in 27.4 minutes over 77 games, shooting .456 from the field, per Basketball-Reference. Detroit's current official roster continued to list him on July 18 despite early-offseason speculation about roster maneuvering.

He remains valuable to lineups with Thompson or Duren because his movement shooting changes defensive geometry. Joe overlaps directly, Huerter overlaps partially, and Collins adds frontcourt spacing; those additions make 20-23 minutes a safer median than a repeat of 27. Robinson can still close on nights when Detroit needs maximum offense.

Range

Career record

Pre-NBA: Williams College (D-III) 2013-14: 17.1 PPG, 6.5 RPG, .453 3P%, NESCAC Rookie of the Year; transferred to Michigan (redshirt 2014-15, played 2015-18): 11.2 → 7.7 → 9.2 PPG on .384-.450 from three, 2018 Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year. 2018-19 G-League (Sioux Falls): 21.4 PPG in 33 games, franchise-record 157 threes. Draft: undrafted (2018); signed a two-way with Miami.

Season Age Team GP MPG PTS REB AST STL BLK 3PM FG% FT% TO
2018-19 24 MIA 15 10.7 3.3 1.3 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.7 .391 .667 0.3
2019-20 25 MIA 73 29.7 13.5 3.2 1.4 0.5 0.3 3.7 .470 .931 1.0
2020-21 26 MIA 72 31.4 13.1 3.5 1.8 0.6 0.3 3.5 .439 .827 1.1
2021-22 27 MIA 79 25.8 10.9 2.6 1.6 0.5 0.2 2.9 .399 .836 0.8
2022-23 28 MIA 42 16.4 6.4 1.6 1.1 0.3 0.0 1.5 .371 .906 0.7
2023-24 29 MIA 68 28.0 12.9 2.5 2.8 0.7 0.2 2.8 .450 .889 1.4
2024-25 30 MIA 74 24.1 11.0 2.3 2.4 0.5 0.1 2.6 .437 .887 1.2
2025-26 31 DET 77 27.4 12.2 2.7 2.1 0.6 0.3 2.9 .456 .755 0.7
Career — MIA/DET 500 26.2 11.5 2.4 1.9 0.5 0.2 2.8 .437 .848 1.0

Durability: 68+ games in six of the last seven seasons. The two low years were role, not health: 15 GP in 2018-19 on a two-way, and 42 GP in 2022-23 when he fell out of Miami's rotation (with late-season finger surgery). A back issue surfaced late in 2024-25 without becoming chronic.

Trajectory: The record is one of the NBA's cleanest specialist arcs: undrafted D-III transfer to two-way to a 3.7-threes-per-game peak (2019-20), a 2022-23 crater, then a reinvention as a movement shooter with secondary handle who has delivered 2.6-2.9 threes on 44-46% FG for three straight seasons — including a durable, efficient first Detroit year. In 2026-27 he competes with Isaiah Joe and Kevin Huerter for Detroit's movement-shooter minutes. He is fantasy-relevant whenever he holds ~24+ MPG: the threes, high FT% on low volume, and near-zero turnovers are a stable late-round category package, and nothing in the record suggests the shooting itself is declining at 32.

Career sources: StatMuse season averages · StatMuse career averages · Wikipedia

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