CMilwaukeeNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1992 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1974

Bob Lanier

6'10" · 250 lbsBorn September 10, 19481971–1984College: St. BonaventureDraft: 1970 · Rd 1, Pick 1 · Detroit Pistons

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

13.6

1974, 1975, 1977 avg

Career VAL

126.4

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

62.6

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

32% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

14 seasons · peak 13.7 in 1974

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 98.2th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#3 · Detroit Pistons91.0 legacy · 64% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 4 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 NBA Career Arc Types NBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories NBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Playoffs

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
1971	22	DET	82	—	24.6	45.5%	—	72.6%	8.1	1.8	—	—	15.6	3.4
1972	23	DET	80	—	38.7	49.3%	—	76.8%	14.2	3.1	—	—	25.7	11.4
1973	24	DET	81	—	38.9	49.0%	—	77.3%	14.9	3.2	—	—	23.8	10.4
1974	25	DET	81	—	37.6	50.4%	—	79.7%	13.3	4.2	1.4	3.0	22.5	13.7
1975	26	DET	76	—	39.3	51.0%	—	80.2%	12.0	4.6	1.0	2.3	24.0	13.7
1976	27	DET	64	—	36.9	53.2%	—	76.8%	11.7	3.4	1.2	1.3	21.3	10.8
1977	28	DET	64	—	38.2	53.4%	—	81.8%	11.6	3.3	1.1	2.0	25.3	13.3
1978	29	DET	63	—	36.7	53.7%	—	77.2%	11.3	3.4	1.3	1.5	24.5	11.3
1979	30	DET	53	—	34.6	51.5%	—	74.9%	9.3	2.6	0.9	1.4	23.6	6
1980	31	All teams	63	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	8.5
1981	32	MIL	67	—	26.2	52.5%	100.0%	75.1%	6.2	2.7	1.1	1.2	14.3	6.5
1982	33	MIL	74	72	26.8	55.8%	0.0%	75.2%	5.2	3.0	1.0	0.8	13.5	8.2
1983	34	MIL	39	35	25.1	49.1%	0.0%	68.4%	5.1	2.7	0.9	0.6	10.7	1.9
1984	35	MIL	72	72	27.9	57.2%	0.0%	70.8%	6.3	2.6	0.8	0.7	13.6	7.3