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JaVale McGee

7'0" · 270 lbsBorn January 19, 19882009–2024College: NevadaDraft: 2008 · Rd 1, Pick 18 · Washington WizardsESPN ↗

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

6.2

2013, 2019, 2022 avg

Career VAL

43.5

Value Above League

Games

908

Points

6,903

Rebounds

4,574

Assists

386

Win Shares

44.5

Playoff VAL

41.4

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2007	Nevada	33	0	10.0	60.0%	66.7%	47.1%	2.2	0.1	0.2	0.9	3.3
2008	Nevada	33	31	27.3	52.9%	33.3%	52.5%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

20thall-timeCareer BLK1,256

Cross-sport prominence: 87.6th 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.

sportsdataverse (hoopR) — CC-BY 4.0 — attribution required
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
2009	20–21	WSH	75	15.2	6.5	3.9	0.3	0.4	1.0	0.8	49.4%	—	66.0%	0.01
2010	21–22	WSH	59	16.4	6.5	4.1	0.2	0.3	1.7	0.9	50.8%	0.0%	63.8%	0.02
2011	22–23	WSH	79	27.8	10.1	8.0	0.5	0.5	2.4	1.3	55.0%	0.0%	58.3%	0.04
2012	23–24	All teams	61	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.06
2013	24–25	DEN	79	18.1	9.1	4.8	0.3	0.4	2.0	1.1	57.5%	100.0%	59.1%	0.07
2014	25–26	DEN	5	16.0	7.0	3.4	0.4	0.2	1.4	1.6	44.7%	—	100.0%	—
2015	26–27	All teams	23	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.00
2016	27–28	DAL	34	10.8	5.1	3.9	0.1	0.1	0.8	0.6	57.5%	0.0%	50.0%	0.02
2017	28–29	GS	77	9.6	6.1	3.2	0.2	0.2	0.9	0.5	65.2%	0.0%	50.5%	0.07
2018	29–30	GS	65	9.4	4.8	2.6	0.5	0.3	0.9	0.4	62.1%	0.0%	73.1%	0.05
2019	30–31	LAL	75	22.3	12.0	7.5	0.7	0.6	2.0	1.4	62.4%	8.3%	63.2%	0.09
2020	31–32	LAL	68	16.6	6.6	5.7	0.5	0.5	1.4	0.8	63.7%	50.0%	64.6%	0.07
2021	32–33	All teams	46	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.01
2022	33–34	PHX	74	15.8	9.2	6.7	0.6	0.3	1.1	1.3	62.9%	22.2%	69.9%	0.09
2023	34–35	DAL	42	8.5	4.4	2.5	0.3	0.1	0.6	0.9	64.0%	40.0%	58.5%	0.00
2024	35–36	SAC	46	7.4	4.0	2.7	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.7	59.8%	14.3%	57.8%	0.02

JaVale McGee

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

College Stats

College Per Game

All-time standings

Boards that rank NBA careers

Similar careers

Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

Career Geography