LJ Wells
Only corroborated player-season records; not complete career coverage.
Observed career performance
2018:37 minutes logged
- Games logged
- 83
- Minutes per game
- 24:19
- Points per game
- 9.4
- Rebounds / assists per game
- 5.5 / 1.4
| Basis | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | PF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per game | 9.4 | 5.5 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 2.3 |
| Per 40 minutes | 15.5 | 9.1 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 3.7 |
| Season totals | 781 | 459 | 119 | 80 | 38 | 120 | 187 |
| Shot | Made–att. | Pct | Att/G | Att/40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FG | 280–548 | 51.1% | 6.6 | 10.9 |
| 2P | 252–463 | 54.4% | 5.6 | 9.2 |
| 3P | 28–85 | 32.9% | 1.0 | 1.7 |
| FT | 193–287 | 67.2% | 3.5 | 5.7 |
| eFG% | Estimated TS% | 3PA / FGA | FTA / FGA | AST / TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53.6% | 57.9% | 15.5% | 52.4% | 0.99 |
Combined corroborated seasons only; not complete career coverage. † marks a rate on fewer attempts than the floor (field goal 100, three-point 50, free throw 25). Floors are descriptive, not model output. Definitions
Linked seasons
| Season | Team | G | MPG | Pts | Reb | Ast | Pts/40 | 3P% | FT% | TS% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 LJ Wells | N Kentucky | 17 | 8:33 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 9.6 | 33.3%† | 55.6%† | 50.1%† |
| 2024 LJ Wells | N Kentucky | 29 | 26:38 | 8.5 | 5.8 | 1.3 | 12.8 | 41.9%† | 64.0% | 53.0% |
| 2025 LJ Wells | N Kentucky | 7Few games | 24:21 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 1.1 | 10.6 | 0.0%† | 76.5%† | 53.0%† |
| 2026 LJ Wells | Northern Ky. | 30 | 31:01 | 15.1 | 7.1 | 2.2 | 19.5 | 27.7%† | 68.3% | 62.4% |
Career identity corroborated by repeated game, team and individual-statistic matches. Unlinked seasons are excluded.
Speculative compensation · 2025–26β
N Kentucky · Low and other · 2025–26 · a best guess at this player's part of the school's own revenue-sharing budget for men's basketball.
- Speculative best guess
- $40K
- 80% range $13K to $120K
- Median share of team pool
- 17.8%
- team pool $225K, 80% range $82K to $600K
- Across scenarios Z1 to Z4
- $37K to $47K
- the elasticity disagreement is carried, not resolved
- Floor part
- $2K
- shared by every player with possessions
- Possession share
- 74.5%
- Sufficient evidence
- Range driven by assumption, not data
Speculative best guess, not observed pay. It is not a contract, not an offer and not a market price, and it is unvalidated: no pay is held to check it against. Point is the median and the range is the 10th to 90th percentile of 4,000 joint draws of budget and player value; a mixture of assumptions, not a calibrated interval.
Budget anchor. Tier prior from anonymous surveys and sources, scaled so that all non-Power budgets sum to the national total the College Sports Commission reported paid for 2025-26 ($1,770,453,776 over 307 schools) less the Power 4 total, times a men's basketball share; weak anchor.
Assumptions. modelled pool; split by possession share times value over replacement; convexity; shared floor; replacement level; four elasticity scenarios; closure to the national total; opt-out list; exclusions. Each is a declared judgement, not an estimate. Numbers, anchors and checks
Not included. Third-party and collective NIL deals, including deals cleared through NIL Go. Non-cash benefits such as scholarship, cost of attendance, Alston awards and housing. Bonuses and incentive terms. Anything outside the school's own revenue-sharing channel.
N Kentucky: whole-roster table and pool · School finances (school-reported) · What-if calculator for this player
No revenue-sharing budget existed before the 2025–26 season, so no compensation figure is modelled for earlier seasons.
Model-implied value and speculative compensation by seasonβ
| Season | Team | Speculative compensation (best guess) | Compensation 80% range | Split role | Net | Range | Evidence | Range graphic. Position on one axis | Offense | Defense | Wins above replacement | On-court possessions | Sample and flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | N Kentucky | $40Kspeculative | $13K to $120K | descriptive: not used in fit or gates | +2.0 | +0.8 to +3.4 | Sufficient evidence | +1.9 | +0.2 | +6.4range +5.7 to +7.3 | 3,188 | Season detail | |
| 2025 | N Kentucky | None: no budget that season | — | evaluation: examined, post hoc | +0.8 | +0.0 to +1.4 | Limited evidence | -0.2 | +1.0 | +2.8range +2.4 to +3.2 | 587 | Limited evidence: 300 to 599 on-court possessions. Season detail | |
| 2024 | N Kentucky | None: no budget that season | — | evaluation: examined, post hoc | -0.2 | -1.1 to +0.9 | Sufficient evidence | -1.0 | +0.8 | +2.6range +2.1 to +3.2 | 2,735 | Season detail | |
| 2023 | N Kentucky | None: no budget that season | — | evaluation: examined, post hoc | +0.1 | -0.7 to +0.9 | Limited evidence | -0.5 | +0.5 | +0.7range +0.6 to +0.8 | 476 | Limited evidence: 300 to 599 on-court possessions. Season detail |
Open circle: limited evidence. Filled circle: sufficient evidence. Vertical line: zero. This table makes no claim about change over time, so it has no change column or trend. Seasons 2011 to 2017 have a point value but no range, so none is shown. Compensation exists for 2025–26 only; earlier rows say that no budget existed. NIL methodology · Compensation methodology