Walker Kessler

Los Angeles Lakers#14C7'2"245 lb25 years old

Fantasy outlook · 26-27 season

Elite blocks and FG% anchor, FT% liability

Must startThis week

A cornerstone for punt-FT% builds; 2025‑26 lasted just five games, so durability over a full season remains the real question.

Latest news · 2 d agoKessler finished Friday's 124-118 victory over Portland with 16 points (7-10 FG, 2-3 FT), 12 rebounds, two assists and one steal across 37 minutes.

Pros: BLK +2.9FG% +2.5REB +2.0
Cons: FT% -2.13PM -1.6AST -1.2
Fits: Punt FT% → #4 Punt 3PM → #6
Rank: #16Only 10 games

Headline, verdict and take by AI from these stats and recent news · Nov 8

Latest news

2 d ago
Kessler finished Friday's 124-118 victory over Portland with 16 points (7-10 FG, 2-3 FT), 12 rebounds, two assists and one steal across 37 minutes.
Kessler delivered another efficient double-double for the Lakers. He's been worth every penny of his $130 million so far, shooting better than 70 percent from the field after a torn labrum in his left shoulder ended his 2025-26 season early. The frontcourt behind him is thin, so expect him to keep playing heavy minutes.
3 d ago
Kessler supplied 15 points (6-8 FG, 3-4 FT), eight rebounds, four blocks and three steals in 29 minutes before fouling out of Wednesday's 116-103 victory over Sacramento.
Fouls limited Kessler to 29 minutes, but he still made a major impact, piling up seven combined steals-plus-blocks while shooting efficiently around the rim. Shot-blocking has been the backbone of his fantasy value, and this was another reminder of his elite defensive production. Foul trouble is the main thing that could limit his workload going forward.
6 d ago
Kessler supplied 16 points (6-6 FG, 4-4 FT), 15 rebounds, one assist, three blocks and one steal over 31 minutes during Sunday's 131-125 win over the Raptors.
It was the fifth-year center's second straight double-double and the fifth time in seven games to begin his Lakers tenure that Kessler recorded multiple blocks. He's been healthy and productive so far for his new team, averaging 14.3 points, 9.9 boards, 2.9 blocks, 1.1 assists and 1.0 steals in 30.6 minutes while shooting 75.4 percent from the floor.
Oct 31
Kessler finished Friday's 112-95 loss to the Warriors with 10 points (4-7 FG, 2-3 FT), 13 rebounds, two assists and five blocks across 31 minutes.
Kessler had one of his best defensive efforts of the season, posting a double-double with 13 rebounds and five blocks. The center was one of the few Lakers to finish with a positive plus-minus, and his rim protection remains a key piece of the starting lineup. He'll look to build on that Sunday against the Raptors.
Oct 28
Kessler registered 13 points (6-9 FG, 1-4 FT), eight rebounds, two blocks and one steal over 33 minutes during Tuesday's 136-129 loss to the Trail Blazers.
Kessler was solid in the loss, scoring on six of nine shots over 33 minutes. The center's free-throw shooting was an issue again, but his rim protection remains key to the Lakers' starting lineup.

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22-23 season

Rank#55

Value0.03

Games74

Minutes23.0

Points9.2

Rebounds8.4

Assists0.9

FG% · FT%.720 · .516

Category z-scores · rank 55 of 539

FG%

1.77

FT%

-1.67

3PM

-1.50

PTS

-1.17

REB

1.04

AST

-1.31

STL

-1.62

BLK

3.33

1.38

Game log

Date	Opp	Result	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	3P	FT	+/-	Value
Apr 2	@ BKN	L 110-111	22	6	8	0	0	0	0	3-5	0-1	0-2	-4	-1.01
Mar 31	@ BOS	L 114-122	34	20	10	2	0	3	2	10-13	0-0	0-0	-3	0.76
Mar 29	@ SAS	W 128-117	21	9	10	4	0	2	1	4-8	0-0	1-1	+20	0.10
Mar 27	vs PHX	L 103-117	30	18	8	1	1	7	0	8-10	0-0	2-5	+7	1.33
Mar 25	@ SAC	L 113-121	34	31	11	2	1	1	1	14-16	0-0	3-6	-2	0.83
Mar 24	vs MIL	L 116-144	17	7	8	2	0	2	0	3-6	0-0	1-2	-16	-0.23
Mar 22	vs POR	L 115-127	24	8	5	1	0	3	0	4-6	0-0	0-3	-19	-0.58
Mar 20	vs SAC	W 128-120	30	10	8	2	0	5	1	4-6	0-0	2-4	+7	0.31
Mar 18	vs BOS	W 118-117	34	12	14	1	0	3	0	5-7	0-0	2-5	+15	0.11
Mar 13	@ MIA	L 115-119	30	7	9	1	0	1	0	3-4	0-0	1-2	-11	-0.30
Mar 11	@ CHA	W 119-111	32	17	16	1	0	3	1	8-10	0-0	1-2	+17	0.82
Mar 9	@ ORL	W 131-124	32	13	10	3	0	3	3	5-5	0-0	3-3	+15	0.58
Mar 5	@ OKC	L 119-129	32	17	10	0	0	5	2	8-11	0-1	1-2	-5	0.71
Mar 3	@ OKC	L 103-130	25	10	11	0	0	4	1	5-5	0-0	0-0	-13	0.73
Feb 28	vs SAS	L 94-102	33	10	15	2	0	2	0	4-7	0-0	2-4	+5	0.04
Feb 25	vs SAS	W 118-102	27	9	12	2	1	5	0	4-6	0-0	1-2	+10	1.08
Feb 23	vs OKC	W 120-119	37	7	18	2	0	7	0	3-4	1-1	0-2	+8	1.28
Feb 15	@ MEM	L 111-117	33	10	14	0	0	3	3	4-8	0-0	2-3	-1	-0.12
Feb 13	@ IND	W 123-117	19	6	5	0	2	2	2	3-3	0-0	0-0	-2	0.23
Feb 11	@ NYK	L 120-126	35	4	15	1	0	2	1	2-3	0-0	0-0	0	0.12
Feb 10	@ TOR	W 122-116	32	23	9	1	0	0	0	10-12	0-0	3-7	+2	-0.38
Feb 8	vs MIN	L 118-143	30	16	9	1	1	3	0	6-10	0-0	4-5	-19	0.76
Feb 6	vs DAL	L 111-124	27	13	9	1	1	3	1	6-9	0-0	1-1	-8	0.72
Feb 3	vs ATL	L 108-115	18	2	5	0	2	1	1	1-2	0-0	0-0	-15	-0.16
Feb 1	vs TOR	W 131-128	30	17	14	1	1	7	1	8-10	0-0	1-3	+4	1.64
Jan 28	vs DAL	W 108-100	25	14	11	2	0	5	0	6-7	0-0	2-4	+9	0.89
Jan 25	@ POR	L 124-134	18	6	5	2	0	1	2	3-4	0-0	0-2	-11	-1.02
Jan 23	vs CHA	W 120-102	22	13	9	0	0	0	2	5-6	0-0	3-4	+15	-0.45
Jan 20	vs BKN	L 106-117	25	2	6	0	1	1	0	1-4	0-0	0-2	-14	-0.90
Jan 18	vs LAC	W 126-103	28	13	11	3	1	2	1	6-9	0-0	1-2	+15	0.44
Jan 16	@ MIN	W 126-125	31	20	21	4	0	2	1	9-13	0-0	2-4	0	0.77
Jan 14	vs PHI	L 117-118	32	15	12	0	1	2	1	7-7	0-0	1-1	-5	0.93
Jan 13	vs ORL	W 112-108	27	13	9	0	2	7	2	5-6	0-0	3-6	-1	1.16
Jan 10	vs CLE	W 116-114	30	6	11	2	0	1	1	3-9	0-0	0-0	+6	-0.51
Jan 8	@ MEM	L 118-123	23	10	11	1	0	6	1	5-7	0-0	0-0	-6	1.06
Jan 7	@ CHI	L 118-126	13	4	7	1	0	0	1	2-3	0-0	0-0	-1	-0.69
Jan 5	@ HOU	W 131-114	17	8	4	1	1	2	0	4-6	0-0	0-0	+6	0.17
Jan 3	vs SAC	L 115-117	17	6	7	0	2	1	1	2-3	0-0	2-2	-5	0.20
Dec 31	vs MIA	L 123-126	30	5	12	0	1	3	1	2-6	0-0	1-2	+8	0.04
Dec 30	@ SAC	L 125-126	24	11	8	1	0	0	1	5-5	0-0	1-2	+17	-0.40
Dec 28	@ GSW	L 107-112	20	6	6	1	0	3	0	2-4	0-0	2-4	-4	-0.36
Dec 26	@ SAS	L 122-126	21	7	4	0	0	0	0	2-4	0-0	3-6	-2	-1.32
Dec 22	vs WAS	W 120-112	32	12	14	1	0	2	1	5-7	0-0	2-2	+16	0.49
Dec 20	@ DET	W 126-111	27	10	8	1	0	2	1	5-7	0-0	0-2	+7	-0.43
Dec 19	@ CLE	L 99-122	25	11	6	1	1	2	1	5-5	0-0	1-4	-9	-0.25
Dec 17	@ MIL	L 97-123	14	4	3	1	0	1	0	2-2	0-0	0-0	-9	-0.45
Dec 15	vs NOP	W 132-129	28	11	8	1	1	3	2	4-4	0-0	3-4	+12	0.45
Dec 13	vs NOP	W 121-100	23	11	16	0	0	3	0	5-10	0-0	1-2	+9	0.33
Dec 10	@ DEN	L 110-115	22	10	8	0	0	3	0	4-6	0-0	2-3	+4	0.15
Dec 9	vs MIN	L 108-118	21	6	7	0	1	0	1	3-4	0-0	0-0	0	-0.34
Dec 7	vs GSW	W 124-123	24	10	12	1	0	5	1	5-6	0-0	0-0	0	0.97
Dec 3	vs POR	L 111-116	17	8	8	0	0	3	0	4-4	0-0	0-0	-10	0.40
Dec 2	vs IND	W 139-119	25	20	11	1	0	2	1	7-7	0-0	6-8	+4	0.55
Nov 30	vs LAC	W 125-112	22	5	4	0	0	4	1	2-3	0-0	1-3	+8	-0.41
Nov 28	vs CHI	L 107-114	5	0	3	0	0	1	1	0-0	0-0	0-0	-3	-0.86
Nov 26	@ PHX	L 112-113	17	3	4	0	0	0	0	1-1	0-0	1-2	0	-0.95
Nov 25	@ GSW	L 118-129	21	8	4	0	0	3	0	3-3	0-0	2-2	+2	0.25
Nov 23	vs DET	L 116-125	21	5	7	0	0	5	2	2-2	0-0	1-2	-4	0.13
Nov 21	@ LAC	L 114-121	12	4	2	1	0	0	1	2-2	0-0	0-0	-4	-0.85
Nov 19	@ POR	W 118-113	11	6	5	1	0	0	0	3-3	0-0	0-0	-6	-0.46
Nov 18	vs PHX	W 134-133	20	1	3	2	1	0	0	0-3	0-0	1-2	-18	-0.95
Nov 15	vs NYK	L 111-118	18	8	7	1	1	1	2	4-4	0-0	0-0	-8	-0.02
Nov 13	@ PHI	L 98-105	12	2	9	0	0	3	2	1-5	0-0	0-2	+13	-0.96
Nov 12	@ WAS	L 112-121	15	2	4	0	0	0	0	1-2	0-0	0-0	+15	-0.86
Nov 9	@ ATL	W 125-119	16	12	6	1	0	3	0	6-6	0-0	0-1	+14	0.34
Nov 7	vs LAL	W 139-116	18	8	9	1	0	2	0	4-6	0-0	0-0	+8	0.12
Nov 6	@ LAC	W 110-102	16	4	5	0	0	2	0	2-2	0-0	0-0	0	-0.19
Nov 4	@ LAL	W 130-116	11	8	4	0	0	2	0	4-5	0-0	0-0	0	-0.08
Nov 2	@ DAL	L 100-103	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	-2	-1.08
Oct 26	vs HOU	W 109-101	11	4	1	1	0	1	1	0-1	0-0	4-4	-4	-0.67
Oct 24	@ HOU	L 108-114	8	0	1	0	1	1	2	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	-0.88
Oct 23	@ NOP	W 122-121	22	7	9	2	0	2	0	3-6	0-0	1-2	+9	-0.19
Oct 21	@ MIN	W 132-126	18	6	5	2	0	4	1	2-3	0-0	2-3	-3	0.05
Oct 19	vs DEN	W 123-102	24	12	10	1	1	0	1	5-5	0-0	2-6	+12	-0.67

By season

Season	Team	GP	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG%	FT%	3PM
26-27	LAL	10	31.2	14.6	10.4	1.2	1.3	2.4	1.3	.716	.571	0.0
25-26	UTA	5	31.0	14.4	10.8	3.0	1.4	1.8	3.2	.703	.700	1.2
24-25	UTA	58	30.1	11.1	12.2	1.7	0.6	2.4	1.5	.663	.520	0.1
23-24	UTA	64	23.3	8.1	7.5	0.9	0.5	2.4	1.0	.654	.602	0.1
22-23	UTA	74	23.0	9.2	8.4	0.9	0.3	2.3	0.8	.720	.516	0.0
Career		211	25.6	9.7	9.3	1.2	0.5	2.4	1.1	.683	.547	0.1