SG/SFHoustonNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2004 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1988

Clyde Drexler

6'7" · 222 lbsBorn June 22, 19621984–1998College: HoustonDraft: 1983 · Rd 1, Pick 14 · Portland Trail Blazers

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

15.8

1987, 1988, 1989 avg

Career VAL

145.2

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

139.4

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

33% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

15 seasons · peak 16.6 in 1988

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 98.8th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#1 · Portland Trail Blazers119.3 legacy · 73% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 3 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 NBA Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape NBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust

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
1984	21–22	POR	82	3	17.2	45.1%	25.0%	72.8%	2.9	1.9	1.3	0.4	7.7	1.9
1985	22–23	POR	80	43	31.9	49.4%	21.6%	75.9%	6.0	5.5	2.2	0.9	17.2	10.6
1986	23–24	POR	75	58	34.3	47.5%	20.0%	76.9%	5.6	8.0	2.6	0.6	18.5	12.4
1987	24–25	POR	82	82	38.0	50.2%	23.4%	76.0%	6.3	6.9	2.5	0.9	21.7	15.8
1988	25–26	POR	81	80	37.8	50.6%	21.2%	81.1%	6.6	5.8	2.5	0.6	27.0	16.6
1989	26–27	POR	78	78	39.3	49.6%	26.0%	79.9%	7.9	5.8	2.7	0.7	27.2	15.1
1990	27–28	POR	73	73	36.8	49.4%	28.3%	77.4%	6.9	5.9	2.0	0.7	23.3	11.3
1991	28–29	POR	82	82	34.8	48.2%	31.9%	79.4%	6.7	6.0	1.8	0.7	21.5	11.2
1992	29–30	POR	76	76	36.2	47.0%	33.7%	79.4%	6.6	6.7	1.8	0.9	25.0	11.2
1993	30–31	POR	49	49	34.1	42.9%	23.3%	83.9%	6.3	5.7	1.9	0.8	19.9	4.6
1994	31–32	POR	68	68	34.3	42.8%	32.4%	77.7%	6.5	4.9	1.4	0.5	19.2	4.7
1995	32–33	All teams	76	75	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	9.7
1996	33–34	HOU	52	51	38.4	43.3%	33.2%	78.4%	7.2	5.8	2.0	0.5	19.3	5.4
1997	34–35	HOU	62	62	36.6	44.2%	35.5%	75.0%	6.0	5.7	1.9	0.6	18.0	7
1998	35–36	HOU	70	70	35.3	42.7%	31.7%	80.1%	4.9	5.5	1.8	0.6	18.4	7.7