Jerry Sichting played 10 seasons (1981–1990) for IND, BOS, POR and 2 other clubs. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1984.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
10 seasons · peak 10.5 in 1984
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Purdue | 27 | 0 | 16.1 | 54.5% | — | 81.6% | 1.6 | 2.3 | — | — | 6.1 |
| 1977 | Purdue | 28 | 0 | 19.1 | 54.2% | — | 88.4% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 84.1th 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.
Fan Rating
Rate Jerry Sichting — All-Time
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.
20.1 career wins over 10 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1984 · +6.1 wins
Latest season · 1990 · +0.2 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 Jerry Sichting 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
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1984, 10 rated seasons.
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| 1978 | Purdue | 27 | 27 | 36.1 | 51.5% | — | 86.7% | 3.2 | 6.8 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | Purdue | 35 | 35 | 34.3 | 50.7% | — | 87.3% | 2.8 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 13.6 |
Wore 5 distinct franchise crests across 10 seasons (1981–1990) — a true nomad. The crest trail: