PGAtlantaNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 1985

John Bagley

6'0" · 185 lbsBorn April 23, 19601983–1994College: Boston CollegeDraft: 1982 · Rd 1, Pick 12 · Cleveland Cavaliers

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

8.8

1985, 1986, 1988 avg

Career VAL

47.2

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

13.8

postseason

Career Shape

Comet

56% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

9 seasons · peak 10.8 in 1985

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1980	Boston College	29	—	—	48.1%	—	72.2%	3.1	2.2	1.5	0.0	11.8
1981	Boston College	30	29	32.2	50.0%	—

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 88.8th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#68Breakout seasons· 1985of 150

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)

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
1983	22–23	CLE	68	3	14.6	43.2%	0.0%	76.2%	1.4	2.5	0.8	0.1	5.7	1.2
1984	23–24	CLE	76	19	22.5	42.3%	11.8%	79.3%	2.1	4.4	1.0	0.1	8.9	3
1985	24–25	CLE	81	65	29.6	48.8%	11.5%	74.9%	3.6	8.6	1.6	0.1	9.9	10.8
1986	25–26	CLE	78	77	31.7	42.3%	24.3%	79.1%	3.5	9.4	1.6	0.1	11.7	9.3
1987	26–27	CLE	72	67	30.3	42.6%	30.1%	83.1%	3.5	5.3	1.3	0.1	10.7	4.9
1988	27–28	NJ	82	74	33.8	43.9%	29.2%	82.2%	3.1	5.8	1.3	0.1	12.0	6.4
1989	28–29	NJ	68	20	24.1	41.6%	20.4%	72.4%	2.1	5.8	1.1	0.1	7.4	3.7
1990	29–30	BOS	54	17	20.3	45.9%	5.6%	74.4%	1.6	5.5	0.7	0.1	4.3	3
1992	31–32	BOS	73	59	23.9	44.1%	23.8%	71.6%	2.2	6.6	0.8	0.1	7.2	4.9
1993	32–33	BOS	10	0	9.7	36.0%	0.0%	83.3%	0.7	2.0	0.2	0.0	2.3	—
1994	33–34	ATL	3	0	4.3	0.0%	—	100.0%	0.3	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	—