Calbert Cheaney played 13 seasons (1994–2006) for WSB, WSH, BOS and 3 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 2,139 points, 969 rebounds and 492 assists. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1995.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 1990 | Indiana | 29 | 29 | 32.0 | 57.2% | 49.0% | 75.0% | 4.6 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 17.1 |
| 1991 | Indiana | 34 | 34 | 30.3 | 59.6% | 47.3% | 80.1% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 75.2th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNBA JourneymenNBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNBA LoyaltyNBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
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.
Fan Rating
Rate Calbert Cheaney — All-Time
12 seasons · peak 3.9 in 1995
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NBA season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
10.3 career wins over 12 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1995 · +2.3 wins
Latest season · 2006 · −0.4 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NBA player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Calbert Cheaney 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
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1995, 12 rated seasons.
Includes verified pre-2002 NBA per-game rows in the main Per Game table; totals and advanced rows remain limited to their exact source coverage.
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| 21.6 |
| 1992 | Indiana | 34 | 32 | 29.1 | 52.2% | 38.4% | 80.0% | 4.9 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 17.6 |
| 1993 | Indiana | 35 | 35 | 33.7 | 54.9% | 42.7% | 79.5% | 6.4 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 22.4 |
Wore 5 distinct franchise crests across 13 seasons (1994–2006) — a true nomad. The crest trail: