Buddy Hield

6'4" · 220 lbsBorn December 17, 19922017–2026College: OklahomaDraft: 2016 · Rd 1, Pick 6 · New Orleans PelicansESPN ↗

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

3.2

2019, 2023, 2024 avg

Career VAL

13.4

Value Above League

Games

766

Points

11,130

Rebounds

3,058

Assists

1,850

Win Shares

28.3

Playoff VAL

10.5

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2013	Oklahoma	27	13	25.1	38.8%	23.8%	83.3%	4.2	1.9	1.2	0.3	7.8
2014	Oklahoma	33	33	32.1	44.5%	38.6%	75.0%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

11thall-timeCareer FG32,203

Cross-sport prominence: 70.8th 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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Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
2017	23–24	All teams	82	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.00
2018	24–25	SAC	80	25.3	13.5	3.8	1.9	1.1	0.3	1.6	44.6%	43.1%	87.7%	0.01
2019	25–26	SAC	82	31.9	20.7	5.0	2.5	0.7	0.4	1.8	45.8%	42.7%	88.6%	0.07
2020	26–27	SAC	72	30.8	19.2	4.6	3.0	0.9	0.2	2.3	42.9%	39.4%	84.6%	0.02
2021	27–28	SAC	71	34.4	16.6	4.7	3.6	0.9	0.4	1.8	40.6%	39.1%	84.6%	0.00
2022	28–29	All teams	81	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.00
2023	29–30	IND	80	31.1	16.8	5.0	2.8	1.2	0.3	1.7	45.8%	42.5%	82.2%	0.03
2024	30–31	All teams	85	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.02
2025	31–32	GS	82	22.8	11.1	3.2	1.6	0.8	0.3	1.1	41.7%	37.0%	82.8%	0.01
2026	32–33	All teams	51	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.00

Buddy Hield

NBA Stats

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College Stats

College Per Game

All-time standings

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Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

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