Christian Laettner played 13 seasons (1993–2005) for MIN, ATL, DET and 3 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 1,580 points, 1,166 rebounds and 516 assists. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1997.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Duke | 36 | 16 | 16.9 | 72.3% | 100.0% | 72.7% | 4.7 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | Duke | 38 | 38 | 29.9 | 51.1% | 50.0% | 83.6% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 93.4th 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)
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.
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12 seasons · peak 9.2 in 1997
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.
39.3 career wins over 12 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1997 · +5.3 wins
Latest season · 2005 · +1.6 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 Christian Laettner 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
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1997, 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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| 2.2 |
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| 16.3 |
| 1991 | Duke | 39 | 39 | 30.2 | 57.5% | 34.0% | 80.2% | 8.7 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 19.8 |
| 1992 | Duke | 35 | 35 | 32.2 | 57.5% | 55.7% | 81.5% | 7.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 21.5 |
Wore 6 distinct franchise crests across 13 seasons (1993–2005) — a true nomad. The crest trail: