SF/PFPhiladelphiaNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1986 📈 Late Developer · 1973

Billy Cunningham

6'6" · 210 lbsBorn June 3, 19431966–1976College: North CarolinaDraft: 1965 · Rd 1, Pick 5 · Philadelphia 76ers

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

10.9

1971, 1972, 1973 avg

Career VAL

70.1

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

52.1

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

47% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

11 seasons · peak 14.3 in 1973

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 93.7th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

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)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's Doorstep NBA Journeymen NBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading Seasons NBA Loyalty NBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity

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
1966	22–23	PHI	80	—	26.7	42.6%	—	63.4%	7.5	2.6	—	—	14.3	2.6
1967	23–24	PHI	81	—	26.8	45.9%	—	68.6%	7.3	2.5	—	—	18.5	5.4
1968	24–25	PHI	74	—	28.1	43.8%	—	72.3%	7.6	2.5	—	—	18.9	3.9
1969	25–26	PHI	82	—	40.8	42.6%	—	73.7%	12.8	3.5	—	—	24.8	6.1
1970	26–27	PHI	81	—	39.4	46.9%	—	72.9%	13.6	4.3	—	—	26.1	8.9
1971	27–28	PHI	81	—	36.9	46.2%	—	73.4%	11.7	4.9	—	—	23.0	9.2
1972	28–29	PHI	75	—	38.6	46.1%	—	71.2%	12.2	5.9	—	—	23.3	9.2
1973	29–30	Carolina (ABA)	84	—	38.7	48.7%	28.6%	78.9%	12.0	6.3	2.6	—	24.1	14.3
1974	30–31	Carolina (ABA)	32	—	37.2	47.1%	12.5%	79.7%	10.3	4.7	1.8	0.7	20.5	3.8
1975	31–32	PHI	80	—	35.7	42.8%	—	77.7%	9.1	5.5	1.1	0.4	19.5	5.5
1976	32–33	PHI	20	—	32.0	41.0%	—	77.3%	7.4	5.4	1.2	0.5	13.7	1.2