NBA Block Rate CORRELATION: Minutes vs Age vs Starting — What Actually Matters?

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Is more playing time actually hurting NBA players' block rates? Josh Lloyd, host of the Locked On Fantasy Basketball Podcast, dives deep into new data correlations between block rate, minutes played, and player age across 288 NBA players over four seasons. You’ll be surprised by the weak connection between blocks and minutes — and how age barely matters at all. Instead, starting games emerges as the biggest key to sustaining fantasy value in blocks.

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0:00.0	Let's take a look at some more correlations. This is something that gets spoken about a lot.
0:06.0	What happens to blocks when players play more minutes? Michael Bolton.
0:11.8	Thanks, Josh. It's Michael Bolton here, and it's time for another episode of the Locked-on
0:17.2	fantasy basketball podcast. Let's get to it. Let's get to it.
0:21.5	Let's get to it.
0:22.0	Indeed.
0:25.5	You are Locked on Fantasy.
0:28.2	Your daily NBA Fantasy podcast.
0:33.4	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:41.1	Hello and welcome to the Locked On Fantasy Basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster.
0:42.8	My name is Josh Lloyd and Twister.
0:43.9	We saw Twister.
0:48.0	I'm also the lead fantasy analysts at Basketballmonster.com.
0:51.4	And thank you for making Locked-on Fantasy Basketball your first listen every day.
0:51.9	We are free.
0:53.4	We're available on all platforms.
0:54.2	I'd like some thumbs and bangs and comments and double bangs. I will be back live soon. Next week, I'll be
1:00.3	back, all things going well, to report on things live as they are happening, but this is a pre-recorded
1:06.5	show. I'm recording it on July the 4th. So there you go. It's all about blocks.
1:12.4	We did a correlation show, and I don't know when it came out.
1:15.1	I know it comes out before this one, but talking about the impact of usage and efficiency,
1:20.3	and the idea that if you have to do more, if your usage goes up, you become less efficient.
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