Jim McIlvaine played 7 seasons (1995–2001) for WSB, SEA and NJ. Shooting Star career, peaking in 1997.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
7 seasons · peak 0.2 in 1997
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Marquette | 28 | — | 19.3 | 57.9% | — | 59.8% | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 3.3 | 8.0 |
| 1992 | Marquette | 29 | 27 | 24.0 | 54.5% | — | 75.4% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 32.8th 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 Jim McIlvaine — 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.
0.1 career wins over 7 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1997 · +0.1 wins
Latest season · 2001 · −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 Jim McIlvaine 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
Shooting Star
One or two seasons that define the entire career — brief but incandescent. Peak 1997, 7 rated seasons.
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| 0.6 |
| 0.2 |
| 3.0 |
| 10.3 |
| 1993 | Marquette | 28 | — | 19.0 | 57.8% | — | 71.4% | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.8 | 11.0 |
| 1994 | Marquette | 33 | 33 | 28.7 | 52.8% | — | 66.5% | 8.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 4.3 | 13.6 |
Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 7 seasons (1995–2001) — a true nomad. The crest trail: