SF/PFMiamiNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 1987

Ed Pinckney

6'9" · 240 lbsBorn March 27, 19631986–1997College: VillanovaDraft: 1985 · Rd 1, Pick 10 · Phoenix Suns

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

5.3

1986, 1987, 1989 avg

Career VAL

28.1

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

16.8

postseason

Career Shape

Comet

57% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

11 seasons · peak 7.3 in 1987

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1982	Villanova	32	—	33.8	64.0%	—	71.4%	7.8	1.4	1.6	2.0	14.2
1983	Villanova	31	—	33.2	56.8%	—	76.0%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 81.1th 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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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1986	22–23	PHX	80	24	20.0	55.8%	0.0%	67.3%	3.9	1.1	0.9	0.5	8.5	3.6
1987	23–24	PHX	80	65	28.1	58.4%	0.0%	73.9%	7.3	1.5	1.1	0.7	10.5	7.3
1988	24–25	SAC	79	7	14.9	52.2%	0.0%	74.7%	2.9	0.8	0.5	0.4	6.2	1.2
1989	25–26	All teams	80	33	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5.1
1990	26–27	BOS	77	50	14.1	54.2%	0.0%	77.3%	2.9	0.9	0.4	0.5	4.7	1.1
1991	27–28	BOS	70	16	16.6	53.9%	0.0%	89.7%	4.9	0.6	0.9	0.6	5.2	2.2
1992	28–29	BOS	81	36	23.7	53.7%	0.0%	81.2%	7.0	0.8	0.9	0.7	7.6	3.5
1993	29–30	BOS	7	5	21.6	41.7%	0.0%	92.3%	6.1	0.1	0.6	1.0	4.6	—
1994	30–31	BOS	76	35	20.1	52.2%	0.0%	73.6%	6.3	0.8	0.8	0.6	5.2	1.8
1995	31–32	MIL	62	17	13.5	49.5%	0.0%	71.0%	3.4	0.3	0.5	0.3	2.3	0
1996	32–33	All teams	74	47	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
1997	33–34	MIA	27	0	10.1	53.5%	0.0%	80.0%	2.4	0.2	0.3	0.3	2.4	0