SFL.A. LakersNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1977 ⛰️ Mountain Arc · 1963

Elgin Baylor

6'5" · 225 lbsBorn September 16, 19341959–1972College: College of Idaho, SeattleDraft: 1958 · Rd 1, Pick 1 · Minneapolis Lakers

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

13.3

1961, 1963, 1964 avg

Career VAL

109.9

Value Above League

Career Shape

Compiler

36% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

12 seasons · peak 16.0 in 1963

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 97.4th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 2 boards

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

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
1959	24	MNL	70	—	40.8	40.8%	—	77.7%	15.0	4.1	—	—	24.9	9.6
1960	25	MNL	70	—	41.0	42.4%	—	73.2%	16.4	3.5	—	—	29.6	8.6
1961	26	LAL	73	—	42.9	43.0%	—	78.3%	19.8	5.1	—	—	34.8	13.8
1962	27	LAL	48	—	44.4	42.8%	—	75.4%	18.6	4.6	—	—	38.3	8.1
1963	28	LAL	80	—	42.1	45.3%	—	83.7%	14.3	4.8	—	—	34.0	16
1964	29	LAL	78	—	40.6	42.5%	—	80.4%	12.0	4.4	—	—	25.4	10.2
1965	30	LAL	74	—	41.3	40.1%	—	79.2%	12.8	3.8	—	—	27.1	7.4
1966	31	LAL	65	—	30.4	40.1%	—	73.9%	9.6	3.4	—	—	16.6	3.1
1967	32	LAL	70	—	38.7	42.9%	—	81.3%	12.8	3.1	—	—	26.6	7
1968	33	LAL	77	—	39.3	44.3%	—	78.6%	12.2	4.6	—	—	26.0	9.5
1969	34	LAL	76	—	40.3	44.7%	—	74.3%	10.6	5.4	—	—	24.8	9
1970	35	LAL	54	—	41.0	48.6%	—	77.3%	10.4	5.4	—	—	24.0	7.6
1971	36	LAL	2	—	28.5	42.1%	—	66.7%	5.5	1.0	—	—	10.0	—
1972	37	LAL	9	—	26.6	43.3%	—	81.5%	6.3	2.0	—	—	11.8	—