C/PFDetroitNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 1984

Bill Laimbeer

6'11" · 245 lbsBorn May 19, 19571981–1994College: Notre DameDraft: 1979 · Rd 3, Pick 65 · Cleveland Cavaliers

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

7.4

1983, 1984, 1987 avg

Career VAL

65.7

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

72.7

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

34% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

13 seasons · peak 8.4 in 1984

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 92.8th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#38Most consistent careersof 100

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
1981	23–24	CLE	81	—	30.4	50.3%	—	76.5%	8.6	2.7	0.7	1.0	9.8	4.7
1982	24–25	All teams	80	34	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2
1983	25–26	DET	82	82	35.0	49.7%	15.4%	79.0%	12.1	3.2	0.6	1.4	13.6	6.6
1984	26–27	DET	82	82	34.9	53.0%	0.0%	86.6%	12.2	1.8	0.6	1.0	17.3	8.4
1985	27–28	DET	82	82	35.3	50.6%	22.2%	79.7%	12.4	1.9	0.8	0.9	17.5	5.7
1986	28–29	DET	82	82	35.3	49.2%	28.6%	83.4%	13.1	1.8	0.7	0.8	16.6	5.1
1987	29–30	DET	82	82	34.8	50.1%	28.6%	89.4%	11.6	1.8	0.9	0.8	15.4	7.2
1988	30–31	DET	82	82	35.3	49.3%	33.3%	87.4%	10.1	2.4	0.8	1.0	13.5	6.2
1989	31–32	DET	81	81	32.6	49.9%	34.9%	84.0%	9.6	2.2	0.6	1.2	13.7	5.7
1990	32–33	DET	81	81	33.0	48.4%	36.1%	85.4%	9.6	2.1	0.7	1.0	12.1	4.4
1991	33–34	DET	82	81	32.5	47.8%	29.6%	83.7%	9.0	1.9	0.5	0.7	11.0	2.8
1992	34–35	DET	81	46	27.6	47.0%	37.6%	89.3%	5.6	2.0	0.6	0.7	9.7	3.3
1993	35–36	DET	79	41	24.5	50.9%	37.0%	89.4%	5.3	1.6	0.6	0.5	8.7	3.6
1994	36–37	DET	11	5	22.5	52.2%	33.3%	84.6%	5.1	1.3	0.5	0.4	9.9	—