Will Barton's strongest evidenced functions are passing, shooting, creation; the weakest available areas are interior finishing, rim pressure, rim protection. These are full-season values across multiple teams, so team-specific fit is withheld.
Medium Mixed Coverage
Function profile
Directly observed offensive and defensive functions — separate readings, never a grade.
10 of 10 — complete
Career arc
Stabilized impact across governed seasons — a trend line, not a career grade. Hollow points mean evidence unavailable.
Lineup context
Exact five-player context with honest sample strength.
DEN · 2021-22Established lineup sample1,612 possessions
Jeff Green, Will Barton, Aaron Gordon, Nikola Jokic, Monte Morris produced 119.2 offense and 114.5 defense over 1612 possessions (3.6 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
DEN · 2021-22Small lineup sample318 possessions
Will Barton, Aaron Gordon, Nikola Jokic, Monte Morris, Michael Porter Jr. produced 107.5 offense and 90.9 defense over 318 possessions (6.5 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
DEN · 2021-22Small lineup sample255 possessions
Austin Rivers, Will Barton, Aaron Gordon, Nikola Jokic, Monte Morris produced 120.0 offense and 104.7 defense over 255 possessions (5.2 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
DEN · 2021-22Small lineup sample
Contract & salary
Season rows under the serving definition; provisional status sits beside the amount.
Body & injury history
Every governed medical episode, mapped to the body. Evidence about the player — never a team decision or a durability grade.
No governed medical episodes are knowable for this player at this as-of moment.
Acquisition history
How he arrived at each team — fit, role realization and price stay separate lanes.
withheld: falsesalary rows: 24resolved player: trueseason profiles: 10medical episodes: 0lineup rows returned: 19current acquisition signal count: 0current acquisition date unresolved count: 0actual nba minutes required for season profiles: true
+Supporting relations (7)
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Creation
58
Rim pressure
41
Shooting
58
Passing
61
Screening*—
Interior finish
30
Point of attack*—
Switch coverage*—
Rim protection
46
Event creation
49
Rebounding
48
* limited evidence. A dash means the evidence was insufficient — not a zero. The radar plots only scored functions; missing axes are marked with a dash, never drawn at zero.
Performance lanes
Three separate lanes — never merged into one number.
On/Off
On/off evidence unavailable for this team-season.
RAPM (single season)
-0.4 per 100
3,520 possessions
Stabilized RAPM
+0.1 per 100
O +0.1 / D -0.0 · 4 season history
Season summaries are retrospective descriptions, not causal player-value estimates.
170 possessions
Jeff Green, Will Barton, Aaron Gordon, Nikola Jokic, Bones Hyland produced 111.2 offense and 102.3 defense over 170 possessions (2.2 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
DEN · 2020-21Small lineup sample458 possessions
Paul Millsap, Will Barton, Gary Harris, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray produced 124.7 offense and 114.9 defense over 458 possessions (4.7 shrunk net). 1 player function profile(s) are full-season multi-franchise aggregates; exact lineup performance remains valid, while those function attributions are season-level and caveated.
DEN · 2020-21Small lineup sample399 possessions
Paul Millsap, Will Barton, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr. produced 126.5 offense and 120.8 defense over 399 possessions (2.5 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
DEN · 2020-21Small lineup sample286 possessions
Will Barton, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, Monte Morris, Michael Porter Jr. produced 124.9 offense and 103.8 defense over 286 possessions (7.7 shrunk net). All five function profiles are exact to this franchise-season.
DEN · 2020-21Small lineup sample202 possessions
Will Barton, Aaron Gordon, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr. produced 127.2 offense and 113.0 defense over 202 possessions (4.1 shrunk net). 1 player function profile(s) are full-season multi-franchise aggregates; exact lineup performance remains valid, while those function attributions are season-level and caveated.
showing 8 of 19 lineup rows returned by the route
* hatched bars are provisional or scheduled figures, not canonically resolved cap hits.
Season
Kind
Amount
Status
2012-13
cap hit
$550K
canonical
2013-14
cap hit
$789K
canonical
2014-15
cap hit
$915K
canonical
2015-16
cap hit
$3.53M
canonical
2016-17
cap hit
$3.53M
canonical
2017-18
cap hit
$3.53M
canonical
2018-19
cap hit
$11.8M
provisional
2019-20
cap hit
$12.8M
canonical
2020-21
cap hit
$13.7M
canonical
2021-22
cap hit
$15.6M
canonical
2021-22
player salary
$15.6M
provisional
2022-23
cap hit
$685K
canonical
2022-23
cap hit
$14.4M
canonical
POR → DENtradeFeb 19, 2015Withheld Pre Move Need Outside Coverage
Withheld No Receiving Team Post Move Role Profile · authority: Tim Connelly
