Donnie Freeman played 9 seasons (1968–1976) for Minnesota (ABA), Miami (ABA), Texas and 5 other clubs. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1969.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
9 seasons · peak 12.3 in 1969
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Minnesota | 1 | — | 24.0 | 61.5% | — | 66.7% | 4.0 | 2.0 | — | — | 20.0 |
| 1969 | Miami | 1 | — | 27.0 | 53.8% | — |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 89.7th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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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.
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.
Fan Rating
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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.
29.2 career wins over 9 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1969 · +7.1 wins
Latest season · 1976 · +1.3 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.
How often Donnie Freeman led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1969, 9 rated seasons.
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This article's career table combines ABA and NBA seasons as published by Wikipedia; league-by-league splits are not fabricated. Career line as published (may span both leagues).
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| 21.0 |
| 1970 | Miami | 1 | — | 24.0 | 25.0% | — | 66.7% | 4.0 | 5.0 | — | — | 10.0 |
| 1971 | Texas | 1 | — | 27.0 | 50.0% | — | 62.5% | 7.0 | 3.0 | — | — | 17.0 |
| 1972 | Dallas | 1 | — | 21.0 | 37.5% | — | 87.5% | 5.0 | 2.0 | — | — | 13.0 |