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Brook Lopez

Brook Lopez remains a rare blocks-plus-threes center, but age 38, weak rebounding and a developing center room leave little margin for workload decline.

Cutoff/status: 2026-07-18; verified LAC center after the club exercised his $9.2 million 2026-27 option. NBA option update · Los Angeles Clippers

Baseline and 2026-27 projection

Lopez played 75 games at 21.8 MPG, averaging 8.5 points, 3.6 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 0.6 steals, 1.2 blocks, 1.5 threes and 0.8 turnovers on .428/.757 shooting. Official Clippers game notes

GP MPG FG% FT% 3PM PTS REB AST STL BLK TO
66 22.0 .430 .770 1.5 8.4 3.7 1.3 0.5 1.2 0.8

Fantasy translation

Role and scenarios

LA picked up the option because stretch-center competence has real lineup value. It did not recreate Zubac's defensive rebounding, and Lopez should not be projected for a vintage Milwaukee workload.

Confidence

Roster Minutes Rate Availability
High Medium High Medium

Career record

Pre-NBA: Stanford, two seasons. As a freshman in 2006-07 he went 12.6 points, 6.0 rebounds, 1.7 blocks on .496 shooting in 25.2 minutes, making the All-Pac-10 Freshman team. As a sophomore in 2007-08 he was 19.3 points, 8.2 rebounds, 2.1 blocks on .468/.789 in 30.8 minutes across 27 games, earning first-team All-Pac-10 and third-team All-American honors from the AP and NABC. He attempted essentially no college threes — 0-for-something as a sophomore, .200 as a freshman — which makes the later stretch-five conversion one of the more complete skill reinventions of the era. A McDonald's All-American in 2006. Draft: 2008, first round, 10th overall, New Jersey Nets.

Season Age Team GP MPG PTS REB AST STL BLK 3PM FG% FT% TO
2008-09 20 NJN 82 30.5 13.0 8.1 1.0 0.5 1.8 0.0 .531 .793 1.8
2009-10 21 NJN 82 36.9 18.8 8.6 2.3 0.7 1.7 0.0 .499 .817 2.5
2010-11 22 NJN 82 35.2 20.4 6.0 1.6 0.6 1.5 0.0 .492 .787 2.1
2011-12 23 NJN 5 27.2 19.2 3.6 1.2 0.2 0.8 0.0 .494 .625 1.2
2012-13 24 BKN 74 30.4 19.4 6.9 0.9 0.4 2.1 0.0 .521 .758 1.8
2013-14 25 BKN 17 31.4 20.7 6.0 0.9 0.5 1.8 0.0 .563 .817 1.6
2014-15 26 BKN 72 29.2 17.2 7.4 0.7 0.6 1.8 0.0 .513 .814 1.4
2015-16 27 BKN 73 33.7 20.6 7.8 2.0 0.8 1.7 0.0 .511 .787 2.4
2016-17 28 BKN 75 29.6 20.5 5.4 2.3 0.5 1.7 1.8 .474 .810 2.5
2017-18 29 LAL 74 23.4 13.0 4.0 1.7 0.4 1.3 1.5 .465 .703 1.3
2018-19 30 MIL 81 28.7 12.5 4.9 1.2 0.6 2.2 2.3 .452 .842 1.0
2019-20 31 MIL 68 26.7 12.0 4.6 1.5 0.7 2.4 1.5 .435 .836 1.0
2020-21 32 MIL 70 27.2 12.3 5.0 0.7 0.6 1.5 1.4 .503 .845 0.9
2021-22 33 MIL 13 22.9 12.4 4.1 0.5 0.6 1.2 1.5 .466 .870 0.9
2022-23 34 MIL 78 30.4 15.9 6.7 1.3 0.5 2.5 1.7 .531 .784 1.4
2023-24 35 MIL 79 30.5 12.5 5.2 1.6 0.5 2.4 1.9 .485 .821 1.0
2024-25 36 MIL 80 31.8 13.0 5.0 1.8 0.6 1.9 1.7 .509 .826 1.1
2025-26 37 LAC 75 21.8 8.5 3.6 1.3 0.6 1.2 1.5 .428 .757 0.8
Career 1180 29.8 15.4 5.9 1.5 0.6 1.8 1.0 .494 .797 1.5

Fantasy history: Season-end nine-category ranks are not verifiable from the sources available here, so specific finishes are not asserted. The career splits into three distinct fantasy identities. Through 2016-17 he was a high-volume scoring center whose value came from points, field-goal percentage and blocks with zero threes — a top-40-type category asset in his best Brooklyn years. From 2018-19 through 2024-25 he was the archetypal blocks-plus-threes big, a combination scarce enough that he held mid-round category value on modest scoring; 2022-23 (15.9 points, 2.5 blocks, 1.7 threes, .531) was the peak of that version. 2025-26 was the first season the formula stopped working: 1.2 blocks and .428 shooting from a center are actively negative in two categories. Points-league value has always trailed the category value badly, because the profile leans on blocks and threes rather than raw volume, and 2025-26 left him a matchup streamer.

Durability: 82, 82, 82, 5, 74, 17, 72, 73, 75, 74, 81, 68, 70, 13, 78, 79, 80, 75. Three seasons account for nearly all of the missed time. In 2011-12 he broke his right foot in the preseason, missed the first 32 games, then sprained his right ankle five games after returning and was shut down. In 2013-14 a foot injury on December 19 ended his season after 17 games. In 2021-22 he had back surgery in December following the season opener and did not return until March 14, 2022. Outside those three, he has been remarkably available for a seven-footer — twelve seasons of 68 or more games, including 75 last year at 37. The foot problems are more than a decade old and have not recurred.

Trajectory: Two full career reinventions sit inside this table. The first was 2016-17, when a player who had attempted essentially zero threes in eight NBA seasons and two college seasons started making 1.8 a game — that single change extended his career by roughly a decade. The second was Milwaukee's drop-coverage system from 2018-19 onward, which converted him into a two-plus-blocks rim protector while the shooting kept the floor open. The 2025-26 line is the first evidence that the reinventions have run out: minutes fell ten per game from 31.8 to 21.8, blocks halved from 1.9 to 1.2, and field-goal percentage collapsed from .509 to .428, which is the worst mark of his career by a wide margin. Per-36 the decline is real rather than a minutes artifact — roughly 14.0 points and 2.0 blocks per 36 versus 14.7 and 2.2 the prior year, with the efficiency drop unexplained by role. At 38 with a shrinking rim-protection signal and no rebounding base to fall back on, the base case for 2026-27 is continued erosion, and the reasonable projection is that last season's rates are the ceiling rather than a floor to bounce off.

Career sources: ESPN career stats · StatMuse season-by-season · Wikipedia (Stanford stats, awards, draft, injury history)

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