SFMilwaukeeNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2008 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1981

Adrian Dantley

6'5" · 208 lbsBorn February 26, 19551977–1991College: Notre DameDraft: 1976 · Rd 1, Pick 6 · Buffalo Braves

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

NBA profile

Peak 3Y VAL

19.5

1981, 1982, 1984 avg

Career VAL

156.0

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

51.4

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

38% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

14 seasons · peak 19.9 in 1981 · league-best seasons: 1981, 1982

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 99.0th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#3 · Utah Jazz87.4 legacy · 50% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 5 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VAL NBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.

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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1977	21–22	BUF	77	—	36.6	52.0%	—	81.8%	7.6	1.9	1.2	0.2	20.3	9.8
1978	22–23	All teams	79	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	10.6
1979	23–24	LAL	60	—	29.6	51.0%	—	85.4%	5.7	2.3	1.1	0.2	17.3	5.7
1980	24–25	UTAH	68	—	39.3	57.6%	0.0%	84.2%	7.6	2.8	1.4	0.2	28.0	16.3
1981	25–26	UTAH	80	—	42.7	55.9%	28.6%	80.6%	6.4	4.0	1.4	0.2	30.7	19.9
1982	26–27	UTAH	81	81	39.8	57.0%	33.3%	79.2%	6.3	4.0	1.2	0.2	30.3	19.9
1983	27–28	UTAH	22	22	40.3	58.0%	—	84.7%	6.4	4.8	0.9	0.0	30.7	6.6
1984	28–29	UTAH	79	79	37.8	55.8%	25.0%	85.9%	5.7	3.9	0.8	0.1	30.6	18.8
1985	29–30	UTAH	55	46	35.8	53.1%	—	80.4%	5.9	3.4	1.0	0.1	26.6	8.2
1986	30–31	UTAH	76	75	36.1	56.3%	9.1%	79.1%	5.2	3.5	0.8	0.1	29.8	16.3
1987	31–32	DET	81	81	33.8	53.4%	16.7%	81.2%	4.1	2.0	0.8	0.1	21.5	10.2
1988	32–33	DET	69	50	31.1	51.4%	0.0%	86.0%	3.3	2.5	0.6	0.1	20.0	7.3
1989	33–34	All teams	73	67	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5.1
1990	34–35	DAL	45	45	28.9	47.7%	0.0%	78.7%	3.8	1.8	0.4	0.2	14.7	1.3
1991	35–36	MIL	10	0	12.6	38.0%	33.3%	69.2%	1.3	0.9	0.5	0.0	5.7	—

Adrian Dantley

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Career arc · VAL by season

All-time standings

Etched into the franchise monument

On the boards· Appears on 5 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

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Where this data comes from

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

Rarest-Season Standing

Era-Adjusted Standing

Cross-Sport Era-Adjusted Standing

Cross-Sport Career Standing

Career Geography