Ish Smith played 14 seasons (2011–2024) for HOU, MEM, GS and 10 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 5,706 points, 1,918 rebounds and 3,041 assists. Standard career, peaking in 2018.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Wake Forest | 31 | 30 | 29.9 | 42.9% | 35.4% | 46.2% | 3.8 | 6.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | Wake Forest | 30 | 30 | 32.1 | 42.6% | 33.8% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 73.3th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNBA JourneymenNBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNBA LoyaltyNBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
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.
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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14 seasons · peak 4.4 in 2018
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NBA season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
9.3 career wins over 14 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 2018 · +2.6 wins
Latest season · 2024 · −0.9 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NBA player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Ish Smith led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 2018, 14 rated seasons.
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| 29.1% |
| 3.4 |
| 4.7 |
| 1.3 |
| 0.1 |
| 8.6 |
| 2009 | Wake Forest | 29 | 0 | 22.0 | 43.0% | 24.1% | 78.9% | 2.7 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 6.2 |
| 2010 | Wake Forest | 31 | 31 | 36.8 | 42.0% | 22.2% | 49.4% | 4.9 | 6.0 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 13.2 |
Wore 13 distinct franchise crests across 14 seasons (2011–2024) — a true nomad. The crest trail: