Cutoff/status: 2026-07-18; verified LAC guard, age 32, entering his 11th NBA season. Official roster · Los Angeles Clippers
Baseline and 2026-27 projection
Dunn played all 82 games, starting 68, and averaged 7.3 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.6 steals, 0.2 blocks, 1.0 three and 1.4 turnovers in 27.2 minutes on .476/.765 shooting. Basketball-Reference
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 22.0 | .455 | .760 | 0.8 | 6.3 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
Fantasy translation
- Nine-category: rank 120-175, with much higher value in steals-scarce builds and deep roto.
- Points: low-end stream for assists/steals; scoring settings rarely reward him enough for a stable standard-league spot.
- Dynasty: veteran specialist with little trade liquidity; contenders buy only when steals are an explicit need.
Role and scenarios
- Low: Wagler proves defensively ready and Dunn drops to 15-17 minutes.
- Base: 22 minutes as backup point guard and the closing defensive alternative to Wagler.
- High: Garland misses time and Dunn approaches 28 minutes, five-plus assists and 1.7 steals.
The Clippers need Dunn's point-of-attack defense, but lineups with Dunn, Jones and a non-shooting center can compress the floor. Garland's toe management is the clearest direct upside path.
Confidence
| Roster | Minutes | Rate | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | Medium | High | High |
Career record
Pre-NBA: Four years at Providence (2012-13 through 2015-16), two of them lost to shoulder surgery — a labrum repair in June 2012 and a second operation in December 2013 that ended his sophomore year after four games and earned a medical redshirt. He was 5.7 points and 3.2 assists as a freshman, then produced the two seasons that made him a lottery pick: 15.6 points, 5.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists and 2.7 steals on .474/.351/.686 in 2014-15, and 16.4 points, 5.3 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 2.5 steals on .448/.372/.695 in 2015-16. He won Big East Player of the Year and Big East Defensive Player of the Year in both of those seasons and was a consensus second-team All-American in 2016. Draft: 2016, first round, fifth overall, Minnesota Timberwolves; no draft-night trade. He was moved to Chicago on June 22, 2017 with Zach LaVine and the pick that became Lauri Markkanen in the Jimmy Butler trade.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 22 | MIN | 78 | 17.1 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | .377 | .610 | 1.1 |
| 2017-18 | 23 | CHI | 52 | 29.3 | 13.4 | 4.3 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.8 | .429 | .737 | 2.9 |
| 2018-19 | 24 | CHI | 46 | 30.2 | 11.3 | 4.1 | 6.0 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | .425 | .797 | 2.3 |
| 2019-20 | 25 | CHI | 51 | 24.9 | 7.3 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | .444 | .741 | 1.3 |
| 2020-21 | 26 | ATL | 4 | 11.3 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | .083 | .750 | 0.8 |
| 2021-22 | 27 | POR | 14 | 24.0 | 7.6 | 3.5 | 5.6 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | .431 | .944 | 2.3 |
| 2022-23 | 28 | UTA | 22 | 25.8 | 13.2 | 4.5 | 5.6 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | .537 | .774 | 1.6 |
| 2023-24 | 29 | UTA | 66 | 18.9 | 5.4 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | .470 | .688 | 1.2 |
| 2024-25 | 30 | LAC | 74 | 24.1 | 6.4 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 1.0 | .439 | .682 | 1.0 |
| 2025-26 | 31 | LAC | 82 | 27.2 | 7.3 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 1.0 | .476 | .765 | 1.4 |
| Career | 489 | 24.0 | 7.6 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | .443 | .741 | 1.5 |
No traded seasons and therefore no split rows, but three of these are not real seasons. The 2020-21 four games came after ankle surgery; 2021-22 began with a 10-day contract in Portland on March 14, 2022 after a G League stint; 2022-23 began with a 10-day in Utah on February 22, 2023, converted to a multiyear deal on March 14. He signed a three-year Clippers deal via sign-and-trade on July 18, 2024.
Fantasy history: Season-end nine-category ranks are not verifiable from public archives for any of Dunn's ten seasons, so no finish is asserted. The shape from the line: 2017-18 and 2018-19 were his only seasons with a real all-around category profile — 13.4/4.3/6.0 with 2.0 steals is a top-60 line if it lasts 70 games, and it lasted 52 and 46. Everything from 2019-20 forward is single-category work carried by steals. The last two Clippers seasons are the cleanest expression of it: 1.7 and 1.6 steals with 1.0 threes, three-and-a-half assists, sub-.500 shooting on tiny volume, and turnovers held to 1.0-1.4. Points-league value is materially worse than the category value and always has been, because steals are the only elite thing he does and points formats weight them lightly while giving him no scoring base to fall back on.
Durability: 78, 52, 46, 51, 4, 14, 22, 66, 74, 82. The middle of this list is misleading — 2021-22 and 2022-23 were short because he was signing 10-day contracts in March, not because he was hurt. The genuine injury seasons: 2017-18, when he lost time to a concussion and facial injuries after a fall in January 2018; 2018-19, when a left MCL sprain suffered on October 22, 2018 cost nearly seven weeks before he returned December 10; 2019-20, when he took a knee collision from Thaddeus Young on the first possession of a January 31, 2020 game against Brooklyn; and 2020-21, when ankle surgery limited him to four games with Atlanta. The trend since is emphatically positive — 66, 74, and then all 82 games in 2025-26, the first fully healthy season of his career, at ages 29, 30, and 31. The old knee and ankle history is real but it has not cost him a game in three years.
Trajectory: Dunn's career has two distinct halves separated by a near-total washout. The first half was a failed lead-guard experiment: Chicago gave him 29-30 minutes and the keys in 2017-18 and 2018-19, and he produced 6.0 assists against 2.9 and 2.3 turnovers on .429 and .425 shooting — a usage level his handle and jumper could not support. The washout years (four games, then two 10-day contracts) reset his market entirely, and the second half is a much better player at a much smaller job: since 2023-24 he has shot .470, .439 and .476 while cutting turnovers to roughly one per game, which is the profile of someone who stopped trying to create and started defending and spot-shooting. The 2025-26 season is his career-best efficiency and his only 82-game year, but read the causes honestly — .476 FG and .765 FT are both well above his career marks on low attempts, which is exactly the sort of small-sample efficiency that regresses. At 32 with a 27-minute role about to be squeezed by Wagler, the history says to project the steals and the availability forward and to discount the shooting back toward .450.
Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia — Providence stats, awards, draft, transaction history · Bleacher Report — 2018 MCL sprain
Open questions
- How often does Dunn close over Wagler for defense?
- Can he preserve last season's career-best shooting in a smaller role?
- Does any remaining transaction turn his contract into salary ballast?