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Dirk Nowitzki

7'0" · 245 lbsBorn June 19, 19781999–2019Draft: 1998 · Rd 1, Pick 9 · Milwaukee BucksESPN ↗

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

18.0

2005, 2006, 2007 avg

Career VAL

203.6

Value Above League

Games

1,310

Points

27,930

Rebounds

10,038

Assists

3,224

Win Shares

193.1

Playoff VAL

121.0

postseason

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

+ 2 more career boards inside the all-time top 100.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#1 · Dallas Mavericks228.0 legacy · 100% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 5 boards

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NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VAL NBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps

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	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
1999	20–21	DAL	47	20.4	8.2	3.4	1.0	0.6	0.6	—	40.5%	20.6%	77.3%	0.00
2000	21–22	DAL	82	35.8	17.5	6.5	2.5	0.8	0.8	—	46.1%	37.9%	83.0%	0.09
2001	22–23	DAL	82	38.1	21.8	9.2	2.1	1.0	1.2	—	47.4%	38.7%	83.8%	0.14
2002	23–24	DAL	76	38.0	23.4	9.9	2.4	1.1	1.0	1.9	47.7%	39.7%	85.3%	0.16
2003	24–25	DAL	80	39.0	25.1	9.9	3.0	1.4	1.0	1.9	46.3%	37.9%	88.1%	0.22
2004	25–26	DAL	77	37.9	21.8	8.7	2.7	1.2	1.4	1.8	46.2%	34.1%	87.7%	0.11
2005	26–27	DAL	78	38.7	26.1	9.7	3.1	1.2	1.5	2.3	45.9%	39.9%	86.9%	0.23
2006	27–28	DAL	81	38.1	26.6	9.0	2.8	0.7	1.0	1.9	48.0%	40.6%	90.1%	0.22
2007	28–29	DAL	78	36.1	24.6	8.9	3.4	0.7	0.8	2.1	50.2%	41.6%	90.4%	0.23
2008	29–30	DAL	77	36.0	23.6	8.6	3.5	0.7	0.9	2.1	47.9%	35.9%	87.9%	0.18
2009	30–31	DAL	81	37.7	25.9	8.4	2.4	0.8	0.8	1.9	47.9%	35.9%	89.0%	0.14
2010	31–32	DAL	81	37.5	25.0	7.7	2.7	0.9	1.0	1.8	48.1%	42.1%	91.5%	0.17
2011	32–33	DAL	73	34.3	23.0	7.0	2.6	0.5	0.6	1.9	51.7%	39.3%	89.2%	0.18
2012	33–34	DAL	62	33.5	21.6	6.8	2.2	0.7	0.5	1.9	45.7%	36.8%	89.6%	0.13
2013	34–35	DAL	52	31.3	17.1	6.9	2.5	0.7	0.7	1.3	47.0%	41.7%	85.9%	0.09
2014	35–36	DAL	80	32.8	21.7	6.2	2.7	0.9	0.6	1.5	49.7%	39.8%	89.9%	0.15
2015	36–37	DAL	77	29.7	17.3	5.9	1.9	0.5	0.4	1.1	45.9%	38.0%	88.2%	0.08
2016	37–38	DAL	75	31.5	18.3	6.5	1.8	0.7	0.7	1.1	44.8%	36.8%	89.3%	0.06
2017	38–39	DAL	54	26.3	14.2	6.5	1.5	0.6	0.7	0.9	43.7%	37.8%	87.5%	0.03
2018	39–40	DAL	77	24.7	12.0	5.7	1.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	45.6%	40.9%	89.8%	0.03
2019	40–41	DAL	51	15.6	7.3	3.1	0.7	0.2	0.4	0.4	35.9%	31.2%	78.0%	0.00

Dirk Nowitzki

NBA Stats

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Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

Rarest-Season Standing

Era-Adjusted Standing

Cross-Sport Era-Adjusted Standing

Cross-Sport Career Standing

Career Geography