Minutes MIN
MIN stands for minutes in basketball. Time on the floor, the denominator under almost every rate stat in basketball.
How MIN is calculated
MPG = total minutes played ÷ games played
A game is 48 minutes, so a player never averages more than that outside of overtime. Nothing in the totals category stores minutes — in this database MIN lives only in the per-game averages.
What counts as a good MIN?
Half of the 452 qualified NBA players in 2025-26 were at or below 21.5 per game. Clearing 31.9 put a season in the top tenth of the league.
- Median
- 21.5
- Top 10%
- 31.9
- Leader
- 38.0
By position, the median was 21.7 for G, 21.5 for F and 21.4 for C.
Qualified: 20+ games, non-zero, 2025-26 regular season.