PFWSHNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 2005

Drew Gooden

6'10" · 250 lbsBorn September 24, 19812003–2016College: KansasDraft: 2002 · Rd 1, Pick 4 · Memphis GrizzliesESPN ↗

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

6.8

2005, 2006, 2007 avg

Career VAL

36.5

Value Above League

Games

790

Points

8,653

Rebounds

5,618

Assists

896

Win Shares

46.4

Playoff VAL

35.4

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2000	Kansas	33	8	20.8	45.1%	31.3%	65.9%	7.5	1.1	0.7	0.8	10.6
2001	Kansas	28	20	27.2	51.6%	40.0%	64.8%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 84.7th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

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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)

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	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
2003	21	All teams	70	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.01
2004	22	ORL	79	27.0	11.6	6.5	1.1	0.8	0.9	1.6	44.5%	21.4%	63.7%	0.00
2005	23	CLE	82	30.8	14.4	9.2	1.6	0.9	0.9	1.6	49.2%	17.9%	81.0%	0.10
2006	24	CLE	79	27.5	10.7	8.4	0.7	0.7	0.6	1.3	51.2%	33.3%	68.2%	0.07
2007	25	CLE	80	28.0	11.1	8.5	1.1	0.9	0.4	1.4	47.3%	16.7%	71.4%	0.08
2008	26	All teams	69	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.02
2009	27	All teams	51	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.04
2010	28	All teams	70	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.05
2011	29	MIL	35	24.6	11.3	6.8	1.3	0.6	0.5	1.3	43.1%	15.0%	79.4%	0.05
2012	30	MIL	56	26.2	13.7	6.5	2.6	0.8	0.6	1.9	43.7%	29.1%	84.6%	0.08
2013	31	MIL	16	9.4	3.3	1.9	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6	32.8%	20.0%	68.8%	—
2014	32	WSH	22	17.9	8.3	5.2	0.7	0.5	0.3	0.8	53.1%	41.2%	88.9%	0.06
2015	33	WSH	51	17.0	5.4	4.4	1.0	0.4	0.2	0.5	39.9%	39.0%	77.3%	0.02
2016	34	WSH	30	10.1	2.7	2.8	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	32.0%	17.1%	64.3%	0.00