Player card
- Team/status: Memphis standard-roster developmental forward.
- Position: official roster label F; likely PF/C eligibility varies by platform.
- Age/experience: 22 during the season; entering NBA Year 4.
- Depth role: reserve stretch/defensive forward, 5-minute base role.
- 2025-26: 59 total games/17 starts, 18.9 MPG; .459 FG, .681 FT, 1.1 3PM, 7.4 PTS, 3.7 REB, 0.9 AST, 0.8 STL, 0.5 BLK, 0.8 TO. His Memphis split rose to roughly 10.6 PTS, 4.7 REB, 1.4 STL and 0.8 BLK in 24.1 minutes. ESPN stats, accessed 2026-07-18
2026-27 base projection
| GP | MPG | FG% (FGA) | FT% (FTA) | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 5 | .455 (2.0) | .700 (0.4) | 0.4 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Nine-category/points: not rosterable at base minutes. Dynasty: deep hold because 1.3 combined stocks plus threes can translate quickly if minutes reopen; age 22 preserves development value.
Range and risks
- Strengths: threes, steals, blocks and low turnovers.
- Liabilities: low assists, FT% and very uncertain opportunity.
- Floor/base/ceiling: development-only / 5-minute matchup forward / 22-minute role after Grant/Stewart/Prosper attrition, near 9/5 with 1.2 threes and 1.5 stocks.
- Branches: Grant trade and Edey health can both open frontcourt minutes, but Boozer is a fixed obstacle.
The Memphis split creates a more exciting rate signal than the season total, yet it came in an injury-ravaged environment. The model treats those stocks as upside evidence and sharply regresses the role.
Confidence
| Component | Label | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Roster | High | Young player on official roster. |
| Minutes | Low | Deep, overlapping frontcourt. |
| Rate | Medium | 59-game baseline but changing role/team context. |
| Availability | Medium-high | No current restriction found. |
Sources
- Official Memphis roster — accessed 2026-07-18.
- Official Grizzlies season notes — Memphis split/context.
Career record
Pre-NBA: One season at UCF (2022-23): 34 GP, 34.7 MPG, 15.1 PTS, 7.0 REB, 1.4 AST, 1.7 BLK on .478 FG, .394 3P, .782 FT. Second-team All-AAC and AAC All-Freshman. The freshman profile — a 6-9 forward blocking a shot and a half while shooting near 40 percent from three — is exactly the archetype that made him a lottery pick. Draft: 2023, first round, 9th overall by Utah; UCF's first lottery pick and highest selection ever.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 20 | UTA | 40 | 21.4 | 7.3 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.3 | .450 | .793 | 0.7 |
| 2024-25 | 21 | UTA | 3 | 25.0 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.0 | .222 | .750 | 0.7 |
| 2025-26 | 22 | UTA | 33 | 14.9 | 4.9 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | .453 | .719 | 0.6 |
| 2025-26 | 22 | MEM | 26 | 24.1 | 10.6 | 4.7 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.5 | .463 | .650 | 1.2 |
| Career | 102 | 20.1 | 7.3 | 4.1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.2 | .449 | .714 | 0.8 |
He shot .354 from three for his career. The two 2025-26 rows are the same player in two environments: 6 starts and 14.9 minutes in Utah, then 11 starts and 24.1 minutes in Memphis after the February 3, 2026 trade that sent him, Kyle Anderson, Walter Clayton Jr., Georges Niang and three first-rounders to the Grizzlies for Jaren Jackson Jr. and three others. The Memphis stint is the only stretch of his career where he has played starter minutes while healthy, and the per-game production roughly doubled.
Durability: 40, 3 and 59 games. The 2024-25 season is the defining event — he fractured his fibula and dislocated his ankle on October 28, 2024 against Dallas, four games in, and missed the rest of the year. He returned for a full 2025-26 with no reported recurrence, which is the most important fact in his file. The 23 games missed in 2025-26 are not attributable to a single verified cause.
Trajectory: A former ninth pick who lost a developmental year to a severe lower-leg injury and has now proven he can absorb 24 minutes a night without breaking. The Memphis split — 10.6 points, 4.7 rebounds, 1.4 steals, 0.8 blocks, 1.5 threes — is a legitimate nine-cat line, and it is the reason to keep him despite a five-minute base projection. He is buried behind a frontcourt of Boozer, Edey, Grant and Stewart. He becomes rosterable the moment one of those four is traded or injured; a Grant deadline move is the cleanest single trigger. Age 22 turning 23 and a first-round pedigree make him the rare deep-roster player worth a dynasty stash on role change alone.
Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia · ESPN 2025-26 splits · NBA.com player page
Open questions
- Does Hendricks make the nightly rotation after camp?
- Can his Memphis defensive-event spike survive normal lineups?