PG/SGBaltimoreNBA📈 Late Developer · 1961

Gene Shue

6'2" · 170 lbsBorn December 18, 19311955–1964College: MarylandDraft: 1954 · Rd 1, Pick 3 · Philadelphia Warriors

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

9.4

1960, 1961, 1962 avg

Career VAL

46.9

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

25.4

postseason

Career Shape

Comet

60% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

10 seasons · peak 11.8 in 1961

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 88.8th 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
1955	22–23	All teams	62	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
1956	23–24	NY	72	—	24.3	38.4%	—	76.4%	2.9	2.5	—	—	9.2	2.9
1957	24–25	FTW	72	—	34.3	38.5%	—	76.3%	5.8	3.3	—	—	10.9	4.4
1958	25–26	DET	63	—	37.0	38.4%	—	84.4%	5.3	2.7	—	—	15.6	4.6
1959	26–27	DET	72	—	38.1	38.8%	—	80.3%	4.7	3.2	—	—	17.6	5
1960	27–28	DET	75	—	44.5	41.3%	—	87.2%	5.5	3.9	—	—	22.8	8.3
1961	28–29	DET	78	—	43.1	42.1%	—	85.6%	4.3	6.8	—	—	22.6	11.8
1962	29–30	DET	80	—	39.3	40.8%	—	81.0%	4.7	5.8	—	—	19.0	8.1
1963	30–31	NY	78	—	29.3	39.6%	—	68.9%	2.4	3.3	—	—	11.7	1.8
1964	31–32	BAL	47	—	20.5	29.3%	—	59.0%	2.0	3.2	—	—	4.2	0