PGL.A. LakersNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1980 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1965

Jerry West

6'3" · 175 lbsBorn May 28, 19381961–1974College: West VirginiaDraft: 1960 · Rd 1, Pick 2 · Minneapolis Lakers

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

18.0

1964, 1965, 1966 avg

Career VAL

182.2

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

164.4

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

30% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

14 seasons · peak 19.2 in 1965 · league-best season: 1970

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

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

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#4 · Los Angeles Lakers204.1 legacy · 100% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 6 boards

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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
1961	22–23	LAL	79	—	35.4	41.9%	—	66.6%	7.7	4.2	—	—	17.6	5.7
1962	23–24	LAL	75	—	41.2	44.5%	—	76.9%	7.9	5.4	—	—	30.8	12.6
1963	24–25	LAL	55	—	39.3	46.1%	—	77.8%	7.0	5.6	—	—	27.1	9.2
1964	25–26	LAL	72	—	40.4	48.4%	—	83.2%	6.0	5.6	—	—	28.7	16.9
1965	26–27	LAL	74	—	41.4	49.7%	—	82.1%	6.0	4.9	—	—	31.0	19.2
1966	27–28	LAL	79	—	40.7	47.3%	—	86.0%	7.1	6.1	—	—	31.3	18
1967	28–29	LAL	66	—	40.5	46.4%	—	87.8%	5.9	6.8	—	—	28.7	13.6
1968	29–30	LAL	51	—	37.6	51.4%	—	81.1%	5.8	6.1	—	—	26.3	11.2
1969	30–31	LAL	61	—	39.2	47.1%	—	82.1%	4.3	6.9	—	—	25.9	10.7
1970	31–32	LAL	74	—	42.0	49.7%	—	82.4%	4.6	7.5	—	—	31.2	15.7
1971	32–33	LAL	69	—	41.2	49.4%	—	83.2%	4.6	9.5	—	—	26.9	16.1
1972	33–34	LAL	77	—	38.6	47.7%	—	81.4%	4.2	9.7	—	—	25.8	16.1
1973	34–35	LAL	69	—	35.7	47.9%	—	80.5%	4.2	8.8	—	—	22.8	12.6
1974	35–36	LAL	31	—	31.2	44.7%	—	83.3%	3.7	6.6	2.6	0.7	20.3	4.6

Jerry West

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Career arc · VAL by season

All-time standings

Etched into the franchise monument

On the boards· Appears on 6 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

Similar careers

Where this data comes from

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

Rarest-Season Standing

Era-Adjusted Standing

Cross-Sport Era-Adjusted Standing

Cross-Sport Career Standing

Career Geography