Jo Jo White played 12 seasons (1970–1981) for BOS, GS and KCK. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1975. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
11 seasons · peak 9.8 in 1975
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 1966 | Kansas | 9 | — | — | 39.3% | — | 53.8% | 7.6 | — | — | — | 11.3 |
| 1967 | Kansas | 27 | — | — | 40.9% | — | 81.9% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 94.2th 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)
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 Jo Jo White — 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.
42.2 career wins over 11 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1975 · +5.6 wins
Latest season · 1980 · +2.6 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 Jo Jo White 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
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1975, 11 rated seasons.
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| 1968 | Kansas | 30 | — | — | 40.7% | — | 72.2% | 3.6 | — | — | — | 15.3 |
| 1969 | Kansas | 18 | — | — | 46.9% | — | 73.4% | 4.7 | — | — | — | 18.1 |
Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 12 seasons (1970–1981) — a true nomad. The crest trail: