Bird Averitt played 5 seasons (1974–1978) for San Antonio (ABA), Kentucky (ABA), BUF and NJ. Standard career, peaking in 1976.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
How often Bird Averitt led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 1976, 4 rated seasons.
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This article's career table combines ABA and NBA seasons as published by Wikipedia; league-by-league splits are not fabricated. Career line as published (may span both leagues).
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 59.6th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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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.
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.