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NBA All-Fluff Team for 2025-26

Who creates the most empty calories? Here are five big names, including multiple All-Stars and MVP candidates

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Jeremias Engelmann
Mar 10, 2026
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Paolo Banchero, Luka Dončić, and Jaylen Brown (Katelyn Mulcahy/Katelyn Mulcahy/Jason Miller/Getty Images)


Today we’re bringing back a metric I introduced two years ago — one that captures the gap between how much a player appears to contribute and how much he actually contributes to winning NBA games:

It’s the All-Fluff Team — the Empty Calories All-Stars.

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Basketball analyst. Creator of ESPN's Real Plus-Minus. Formerly with the Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks
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