PGMIANBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2013 📈 Late Developer · 2002

Gary Payton

6'4" · 190 lbsBorn July 23, 19681991–2007College: Oregon StateDraft: 1990 · Rd 1, Pick 2 · Seattle SuperSonicsESPN ↗

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

16.1

1995, 2001, 2002 avg

Career VAL

185.1

Value Above League

Games

463

Points

6,446

Rebounds

1,659

Assists

2,761

Win Shares

41.1

Playoff VAL

33.5

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1987	Oregon State	30	30	37.2	45.9%	37.1%	67.1%	4.0	7.6	1.9	0.7	12.5
1988	Oregon State	31	31	38.0	48.9%	39.7%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

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Cross-sport prominence: 99.3th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

A standing above rests on a career total that predates the corpus, so the true figure is higher than shown.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#1 · Oklahoma City Thunder146.3 legacy · 71% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 3 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

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
1991	22	SEA	82	27.4	7.2	3.0	6.4	2.0	0.2	—	45.0%	7.7%	71.1%	0.09
1992	23	SEA	81	31.5	9.4	3.6	6.2	1.8	0.3	—	45.1%	13.0%	66.9%	0.09
1993	24	SEA	82	31.1	13.5	3.4	4.9	2.2	0.3	—	49.4%	20.6%	77.0%	0.12
1994	25	SEA	82	35.1	16.5	3.3	6.0	2.3	0.2	—	50.4%	27.8%	59.5%	0.13
1995	26	SEA	82	36.8	20.6	3.4	7.1	2.5	0.2	—	50.9%	30.2%	71.6%	0.19
1996	27	SEA	81	39.0	19.3	4.2	7.5	2.9	0.2	—	48.4%	32.8%	74.8%	0.19
1997	28	SEA	82	39.2	21.8	4.6	7.1	2.4	0.2	—	47.6%	31.3%	71.5%	0.17
1998	29	SEA	82	38.4	19.2	4.6	8.3	2.3	0.2	—	45.3%	33.8%	74.4%	0.17
1999	30	SEA	50	40.2	21.7	4.9	8.7	2.2	0.2	—	43.4%	29.5%	72.1%	0.18
2000	31	SEA	82	41.8	24.2	6.5	8.9	1.9	0.2	—	44.8%	34.0%	73.5%	0.18
2001	32	SEA	79	41.1	23.1	4.6	8.1	1.6	0.3	—	45.6%	37.5%	76.6%	0.19
2002	33	SEA	82	40.3	22.1	4.8	9.0	1.6	0.3	2.5	46.7%	31.4%	79.7%	0.21
2003	34	All teams	80	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.16
2004	35	LAL	82	34.5	14.6	4.2	5.5	1.2	0.2	1.8	47.1%	33.3%	71.4%	0.12
2005	36	BOS	77	33.0	11.3	3.1	6.1	1.1	0.2	1.9	46.8%	32.6%	76.1%	0.10
2006	37	MIA	75	28.3	7.7	2.9	3.3	0.8	0.1	1.2	42.4%	29.7%	80.2%	0.05
2007	38	MIA	67	22.0	5.2	1.9	3.0	0.6	0.0	1.0	38.8%	25.4%	65.5%	0.01

Gary Payton

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

College Stats

College Per Game

All-time standings

Etched into the franchise monument

On the boards· Appears on 3 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

Similar careers

Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

Cross-Sport Career Standing

Career Geography