SG/SFS.L. Spirits (ABA)NBA

Joe Caldwell

6'5" · 195 lbsBorn November 1, 19411965–1975College: Arizona StateDraft: 1964 · Rd 1, Pick 2 · Detroit Pistons

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

6.8

1969, 1970, 1974 avg

Career VAL

40.7

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

45.9

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

50% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

11 seasons · peak 8.2 in 1970

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 86.7th 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.

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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1965	22–23	DET	66	—	23.4	37.4%	—	61.4%	6.7	1.8	—	—	10.7	0
1966	23–24	All teams	79	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
1967	24–25	STL	81	—	27.9	42.6%	—	64.9%	5.5	2.0	—	—	13.8	1.5
1968	25–26	STL	79	—	33.4	46.3%	—	56.9%	4.3	3.0	—	—	16.4	3.6
1969	26–27	ATL	81	—	33.6	50.7%	—	53.7%	3.7	4.0	—	—	15.8	6.4
1970	27–28	ATL	82	—	34.8	50.7%	—	68.8%	5.0	3.5	—	—	21.1	8.2
1971	28–29	Carolina (ABA)	72	—	41.8	44.8%	20.0%	55.8%	6.8	4.2	—	—	23.3	3.4
1972	29–30	Carolina (ABA)	61	—	35.2	47.1%	25.0%	50.0%	5.6	4.2	—	—	16.9	3
1973	30–31	Carolina (ABA)	77	—	35.6	49.6%	16.7%	42.5%	5.1	4.6	2.2	—	16.7	4.4
1974	31–32	Carolina (ABA)	79	—	33.6	48.9%	17.6%	49.6%	5.2	4.4	2.2	0.4	14.4	5.9
1975	32–33	S.L. Spirits (ABA)	25	—	33.6	49.4%	42.9%	44.8%	4.4	5.1	2.0	0.4	14.6	2