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Chris Kaman

7'0" · 265 lbsBorn April 28, 19822004–2016College: Central MichiganDraft: 2003 · Rd 1, Pick 6 · Los Angeles ClippersESPN ↗

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

3.8

2006, 2008, 2015 avg

Career VAL

18.7

Value Above League

Games

735

Points

8,208

Rebounds

5,582

Assists

921

Win Shares

26.0

Playoff VAL

10.2

postseason

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

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Cross-sport prominence: 75.8th 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
2004	21–22	LAC	82	22.5	6.1	5.6	1.0	0.3	0.9	1.9	46.0%	0.0%	69.7%	0.00
2005	22–23	LAC	63	25.9	9.1	6.7	1.2	0.4	1.1	1.8	49.7%	0.0%	66.1%	0.02
2006	23–24	LAC	78	32.8	11.9	9.6	1.0	0.6	1.4	2.3	52.3%	0.0%	77.0%	0.07
2007	24–25	LAC	75	29.0	10.1	7.8	1.1	0.5	1.5	2.0	45.1%	0.0%	74.1%	0.02
2008	25–26	LAC	56	37.2	15.7	12.7	1.9	0.6	2.8	2.9	48.3%	0.0%	76.2%	0.05
2009	26–27	LAC	31	29.6	12.0	8.0	1.5	0.5	1.5	2.7	52.8%	—	68.0%	0.01
2010	27–28	LAC	76	34.3	18.5	9.3	1.6	0.5	1.2	2.9	49.0%	0.0%	74.9%	0.02
2011	28–29	LAC	32	26.3	12.4	7.0	1.4	0.5	1.5	1.8	47.1%	—	75.4%	0.01
2012	29–30	NO	47	29.3	13.1	7.7	2.1	0.5	1.6	2.7	44.6%	—	78.5%	0.01
2013	30–31	DAL	66	20.7	10.5	5.6	0.8	0.4	0.8	1.6	50.7%	0.0%	78.8%	0.02
2014	31–32	LAL	39	18.9	10.4	5.9	1.5	0.3	1.0	1.9	50.9%	0.0%	76.5%	0.02
2015	32–33	POR	74	18.9	8.6	6.5	0.9	0.2	0.7	1.5	51.5%	—	70.6%	0.04
2016	33–34	POR	16	7.1	2.8	1.5	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.5	46.5%	25.0%	100.0%	—

Chris Kaman

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Career arc · VAL by season

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