CDetroitNBA📈 Late Developer · 1984

Darryl Dawkins

6'11" · 251 lbsBorn January 11, 19571976–1989Draft: 1975 · Rd 1, Pick 5 · Philadelphia 76ers

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

9.6

1981, 1983, 1984 avg

Career VAL

57.7

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

72.6

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

50% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

11 seasons · peak 11.1 in 1984

International Stats

International Per Game — Serie A

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1991	Auxilium Torino	30	—	36.5	84.0%	0.0%	70.2%	11.4	1.3	1.9	1.6	21.4
1992	Libertas Forlì	30	—	28.8	80.9%	50.0%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 91.3th 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	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1976	18–19	PHI	37	1	4.5	50.0%	—	33.3%	1.3	0.1	0.1	0.2	2.4	0
1977	19–20	PHI	59	0	11.6	62.8%	—	50.6%	3.9	0.4	0.2	0.8	5.3	1.4
1978	20–21	PHI	70	11	24.6	57.5%	—	70.9%	7.9	1.2	0.5	1.8	11.7	5.9
1979	21–22	PHI	78	12	26.1	51.7%	—	67.2%	8.1	1.6	0.4	1.8	13.1	3.7
1980	22–23	PHI	80	80	31.8	52.2%	0.0%	65.3%	8.7	1.9	0.6	1.8	14.7	4.8
1981	23–24	PHI	76	76	27.5	60.7%	—	72.0%	7.2	1.4	0.5	1.5	14.0	9.2
1982	24–25	PHI	48	36	23.4	56.4%	0.0%	69.5%	6.4	1.1	0.4	1.1	11.0	2.7
1983	25–26	NJ	81	81	25.8	59.9%	—	64.6%	5.2	1.4	0.8	1.9	12.0	8.6
1984	26–27	NJ	81	80	29.8	59.3%	40.0%	73.5%	6.7	1.5	0.7	1.7	16.8	11.1
1985	27–28	NJ	39	30	24.9	56.6%	0.0%	71.1%	4.6	1.2	0.4	0.9	13.5	2.7
1986	28–29	NJ	51	3	23.7	64.4%	0.0%	70.7%	4.9	1.5	0.3	1.2	15.3	7.6
1987	29–30	NJ	6	2	17.7	62.5%	—	70.8%	3.2	0.3	0.3	0.5	9.5	—
1988	30–31	All teams	6	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1989	31–32	DET	14	0	3.4	47.4%	—	50.0%	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.1	1.9	—