Kyle Kuzma Has Zero Interest in Ever Knowing His Plus-Minus

In a Thursday tweet, Kyle Kuzma made it known just how he feels about the NBA's plus-minus stat that tracks a team's scoring margin while an individual player is on the floor.

Statisticians across the country are likely pulling their hair out.

To be fair, there's been a lot of valid criticism pertaining to this stat. It cannot be used in a vacuum to determine if a player is good or bad, and single-game plus-minus values indicate nothing due to the sample size being too small. But over the course of a few months -- or multiple seasons, for that matter -- a plus-minus total can tell us a lot about a player, particularly in how he compares to his own teammates or other players on similarly talented teams.

(Just for kicks, ESPN's Stats & Info posted this graphic on Twitter, stating that Carmelo Anthony had a plus-minus of -20 in his first NBA game in over a calendar year. Take from that what you will.)

In a large enough sample plus-minus can help to describe just how valuable a player is to a team. But it all has to be viewed in the proper context.

Just take the Golden State Warriors matchup against the Dallas Mavericks last night, for example. The Mavs annihilated the Warriors 142-94, led by Luka Doncic's triple-double, in which he posted a plus-minus of +45. However, Mavs big man Dwight Powell was +41 with six points, three rebounds and one assist over 25 minutes. Does that mean Powell was only four points less valuable than Doncic? According to the plus-minus metric, yes.

Regardless, Kuzma is entitled to his own opinion... although that -0.8 plus-minus of his from last year doesn't look the best. Consider the source!