SFNew JerseyNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2013 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1981

Bernard King

6'7" · 205 lbsBorn December 4, 19561978–1993College: TennesseeDraft: 1977 · Rd 1, Pick 7 · New York Nets

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

14.0

1981, 1982, 1984 avg

Career VAL

98.1

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

22.5

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

43% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

13 seasons · peak 14.8 in 1981

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 96.8th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#62Breakout seasons· 1981of 150

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 NBA Career Arc Types NBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories NBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Playoffs NBA Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape NBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust NBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale NBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern Terms NBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team NBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)

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
1978	20–21	NJ	79	—	39.1	47.9%	—	67.7%	9.5	2.4	1.5	0.5	24.2	5.2
1979	21–22	NJ	82	—	34.9	52.2%	—	56.4%	8.2	3.6	1.4	0.5	21.6	6.9
1980	22–23	UTAH	19	—	22.1	51.8%	—	54.0%	4.6	2.7	0.4	0.2	9.3	0.4
1981	23–24	GS	81	—	36.0	58.8%	33.3%	70.3%	6.8	3.5	0.9	0.4	21.9	14.8
1982	24–25	GS	79	77	36.2	56.6%	20.0%	70.5%	5.9	3.6	1.0	0.3	23.2	12.9
1983	25–26	NY	68	68	32.5	52.8%	0.0%	72.2%	4.8	2.9	1.3	0.2	21.9	8.5
1984	26–27	NY	77	76	34.6	57.2%	0.0%	77.9%	5.1	2.1	1.0	0.2	26.3	14.3
1985	27–28	NY	55	55	37.5	53.0%	10.0%	77.2%	5.8	3.7	1.3	0.3	32.9	9.7
1987	29–30	NY	6	4	35.7	49.5%	—	74.4%	5.3	3.2	0.3	0.0	22.7	—
1988	30–31	WSB	69	38	29.6	50.1%	16.7%	76.2%	4.1	2.8	0.7	0.1	17.2	4.7
1989	31–32	WSB	81	81	31.6	47.7%	16.7%	81.9%	4.7	3.6	0.8	0.2	20.7	6.7
1990	32–33	WSB	82	82	32.8	48.7%	13.0%	80.3%	4.9	4.6	0.6	0.1	22.4	8
1991	33–34	WSB	64	64	37.5	47.2%	21.6%	79.0%	5.0	4.6	0.9	0.3	28.4	6
1993	35–36	NJ	32	2	13.4	51.4%	28.6%	68.4%	2.4	0.6	0.3	0.1	7.0	0