Danny Young

6'3" · 175 lbsBorn July 26, 19621985–1995College: Wake ForestDraft: 1984 · Rd 2, Pick 39 · Seattle SuperSonics

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

4.1

1986, 1987, 1990 avg

Career VAL

16.3

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

21.3

postseason

Career Shape

Comet

76% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

8 seasons · peak 6.1 in 1986

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1981	Wake Forest	29	0	16.9	49.6%	—	68.8%	1.3	1.7	1.0	0.1	5.1
1982	Wake Forest	30	30	31.5	50.8%	—	71.4%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 73.6th 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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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1985	22	SEA	3	0	8.7	20.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0	0.7	1.0	0.0	1.3	—
1986	23	SEA	82	29	23.2	50.6%	32.4%	84.9%	1.5	3.7	1.3	0.1	6.9	6.1
1987	24	SEA	73	26	20.3	45.8%	36.7%	83.1%	1.5	4.8	1.0	0.0	4.8	4.5
1988	25	SEA	77	0	12.3	40.8%	28.6%	81.1%	1.0	2.8	0.7	0.0	3.2	1.2
1989	26	POR	48	2	19.8	46.0%	34.0%	78.1%	1.5	2.6	1.1	0.1	6.2	1.6
1990	27	POR	82	8	17.0	42.1%	27.1%	81.3%	1.5	2.8	1.0	0.0	4.7	1.8
1991	28	POR	75	1	12.0	38.0%	34.6%	91.1%	1.0	1.9	0.7	0.1	3.8	0.1
1992	29	All teams	62	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1993	30	DET	65	2	12.9	41.3%	32.4%	87.5%	0.7	1.8	0.5	0.1	2.9	0.1
1995	32	MIL	7	0	11.0	52.9%	41.7%	100.0%	0.7	1.7	0.6	0.0	3.4	—