2023-24 NBA Draft Guide: High Mileage Report

This piece has always been a fun way to bring you some insight on the old guys of the NBA. I wanted to add some extra sauce to the good work which was done by my predecessor, so I am putting my own spin on the article this year.

First, we are going to check out the mileage of fairly relevant fantasy players and try to derive information from it. Then, we’ll take a closer look at players in various age ranges with some heavy minutes under their belt. Given the new resting rules in place, it will be intriguing to see how some of these players are handled. We already know that vets aged 35-plus, or with 34,000 career minutes or 1000 career games can apply for exceptions to the resting policy. Also, you need to have been an All-Star in the previous three seasons (or in the current one) for the rules to apply as well. Another of our sparkling Ethos contributors will provide a detailed analysis of those rules in due time.

The data in the table below was taken from Basketball Reference.

Click here for the Active Leaders in Minutes Played.

The rankings for total minutes among active leaders were left the same, so you will see some gaps in between since we are focusing on more relevant players.

Notable High Mileage Players

COVID-19 shortened the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons.
*In 2019-20, playoff teams played around 73-to-75 regular-season games, while non-playoff teams played about 64-to-68 games.
*The 2020-21 season was limited to 72 regular-season matchups.
*Age listed is from the end of the 2022-23 season.


GENERAL INFO			CAREER MINUTES			GAMES PLAYED ACROSS PAST 10 SEASONS
Rank	Player	Age	Total	Reg Ssn	Playoffs	22-23	21-22	20-21*	19-20*	18-19	17-18	16-17	15-16	14-15	13-14
1	LeBron James	38	65747	54093	11654	55	56	45	67	55	82	74	76	69	77
2	Chris Paul	38	47227	41785	5442	59	65	70	70	58	58	61	74	82	62
4	Kevin Durant	34	42906	36181	6725	47	55	35	0	78	68	62	72	27	81
5	Russell Westbrook	34	41912	37552	4360	73	78	65	57	73	80	81	80	67	46
6	James Harden	33	40503	34753	5750	58	65	44	68	78	72	81	82	81	73
7	Kyle Lowry	37	38622	34331	4291	55	63	46	58	65	78	60	77	70	79
8	Al Horford	37	38239	32519	5720	63	69	28	67	68	72	68	82	76	29
9	DeMar DeRozan	33	37839	35471	2368	74	76	61	68	77	80	74	78	60	79
11	Stephen Curry	35	35794	30302	5492	56	64	63	5	69	51	79	79	80	78
12	Mike Conley	35	35439	32648	2791	67	72	51	47	70	12	69	56	70	73
16	Jrue Holiday	33	32652	30001	2651	67	67	59	61	67	81	67	65	40	34
17	Nicolas Batum	34	31552	29740	1812	78	59	67	22	75	64	77	70	71	82
18	Brook Lopez	35	31009	28565	2444	78	13	70	68	81	74	75	73	72	17
19	Paul George	33	30902	26680	4222	56	31	54	48	77	79	75	81	6	80
20	Damian Lillard	33	30400	27942	2458	58	29	67	66	80	73	75	75	82	82
22	Jimmy Butler	33	29513	25002	4511	64	57	52	58	65	59	76	67	65	67
23	Klay Thompson	33	29390	23560	5830	69	32	0	0	78	73	78	80	77	81
26	Harrison Barnes	31	28655	26418	2237	82	77	58	72	77	77	79	66	82	78
27	Kevin Love	35	28647	26330	2317	62	74	25	56	22	59	60	77	75	77
29	Eric Gordon	34	28242	26223	2019	69	57	27	36	68	69	75	45	61	64
30	Tobias Harris	30	28098	26054	2044	74	73	62	72	82	80	82	76	68	61

What can we learn?

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September 20, 2023, 12:36 pm