Depth charts
Every NBA game has exactly 240 player-minutes — five spots, 48 minutes. Our depth charts allocate all of them, for every team, as rotations stand today. That one constraint changes how you read them: when a star sits, his minutes don't vanish — the chart shows exactly who inherits them.
~3 min read· updated July 14, 2026Open depth charts →
Read a rotation
- Pick a team — or scan all 30
The team selector filters to one club; the default shows every card. Each card totals exactly 240 minutes.
- Read the three tiers
Starters hold their projected minutes; the bench absorbs the rest; players ruled out drop to an Out list at zero, with the injury or return note attached, and their minutes flow to the healthy rotation.
- Watch the durability dots
The dot before each name is his risk read — red is high risk, amber is monitor. A bench player behind a red dot is a stash candidate before the news breaks.
- Use it as a beneficiary map
News lands — a trade, an injury, a shutdown — and the question is always 'who gains?' The chart answers in minutes, and the same numbers drive the NBA moves fallout and the matchup planner, so the tools never disagree.
- A faint new tag marks a rookie or fresh arrival with no prior stats yet — projected by role, not history.
- Charts are analyst- and news-driven and update through the season — the "Engine data" date in the league banner tells you how fresh.