C/PFDenverNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1993 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1973

Dan Issel

6'9" · 235 lbsBorn October 25, 19481971–1985College: KentuckyDraft: 1970 · Rd 8, Pick 122 · Detroit Pistons

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

12.4

1971, 1973, 1976 avg

Career VAL

132.1

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

109.4

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

28% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

15 seasons · peak 12.9 in 1973

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 98.4th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#3 · Denver Nuggets88.8 legacy · 60% 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
1971	21–22	Kentucky (ABA)	83	—	39.4	48.5%	0.0%	80.7%	13.2	2.0	—	—	29.9	11.9
1972	22–23	Kentucky (ABA)	83	—	43.0	48.6%	27.3%	78.5%	11.2	2.3	—	—	30.6	11.8
1973	23–24	Kentucky (ABA)	84	—	42.0	51.3%	20.0%	76.4%	11.0	2.6	—	—	27.3	12.9
1974	24–25	Kentucky (ABA)	83	—	40.3	48.0%	17.6%	78.7%	10.2	1.7	0.8	0.4	25.5	6.4
1975	25–26	Kentucky (ABA)	83	—	34.5	47.1%	0.0%	73.8%	8.6	2.3	0.9	0.6	17.7	4.6
1976	26–27	Denver (ABA)	84	—	34.0	51.1%	25.0%	81.6%	11.0	2.4	1.2	0.7	23.0	12.3
1977	27–28	DEN	79	—	31.7	51.5%	—	79.7%	8.8	2.2	1.2	0.4	22.3	10.5
1978	28–29	DEN	82	—	34.8	51.2%	—	78.2%	10.1	3.7	1.2	0.5	21.3	10.7
1979	29–30	DEN	81	—	33.9	51.7%	—	75.4%	9.1	3.1	0.8	0.6	17.0	7.2
1980	30–31	DEN	82	—	35.8	50.5%	33.3%	77.5%	8.8	2.4	1.1	0.7	23.8	8.4
1981	31–32	DEN	80	—	33.0	50.3%	16.7%	75.9%	8.5	2.0	1.0	0.7	21.9	7
1982	32–33	DEN	81	81	30.5	52.7%	66.7%	83.4%	7.5	2.2	0.8	0.7	22.9	10.5
1983	33–34	DEN	80	80	30.4	51.0%	21.1%	83.5%	7.5	2.8	1.0	0.5	21.6	10.1
1984	34–35	DEN	76	66	27.3	49.3%	21.1%	85.0%	6.8	2.3	0.8	0.6	19.8	6.2
1985	35–36	DEN	77	9	21.9	45.9%	14.3%	80.6%	4.3	1.8	0.8	0.4	12.8	1.6