Dave Popson played 3 seasons (1989–1992) for Los Angeles (club unresolved), MIA, BOS and MIL.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
2 seasons · peak 0.0 in 1989
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.
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | North Carolina | 29 | — | 6.4 | 43.1% | — | 60.0% | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.9 |
| 1985 | North Carolina | 35 | — | 14.5 | 52.9% | — |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 28.0th 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)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNBA JourneymenNBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNBA LoyaltyNBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
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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Rate Dave Popson — All-Time
0.0 career wins over 2 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1991 · −0.3 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.
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| 73.8% |
| 2.5 |
| 0.5 |
| 0.2 |
| 0.3 |
| 6.0 |
| 1986 | North Carolina | 34 | 17 | 12.1 | 50.4% | — | 84.6% | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | North Carolina | 36 | 34 | 22.3 | 54.1% | 0.0% | 77.1% | 4.8 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 10.0 |
Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 4 seasons (1989–1992) — a true nomad. The crest trail: