PGHoustonNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 1979

John Lucas

6'3" · 175 lbsBorn October 31, 19531977–1990College: MarylandDraft: 1976 · Rd 1, Pick 1 · Houston Rockets

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

11.1

1978, 1979, 1984 avg

Career VAL

88.7

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

29.8

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

38% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

14 seasons · peak 12.7 in 1979

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1973	Maryland	30	—	—	53.8%	—	70.3%	2.8	—	—	—	14.2
1974	Maryland	28	—	—	51.1%	—	75.3%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 96.1th 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
1977	22–23	HOU	82	—	30.9	47.7%	—	78.9%	2.7	5.6	1.5	0.2	11.1	9
1978	23–24	HOU	82	—	35.8	43.5%	—	77.2%	3.1	9.4	2.0	0.1	12.4	11.1
1979	24–25	GS	82	—	37.7	46.2%	—	82.2%	3.0	9.3	1.9	0.1	16.1	12.7
1980	25–26	GS	80	—	34.5	46.7%	28.6%	76.8%	2.8	7.5	1.7	0.0	12.6	9.3
1981	26–27	GS	66	—	29.1	43.9%	16.7%	73.8%	2.3	7.0	1.3	0.0	8.4	5.6
1982	27–28	WSB	79	53	24.6	42.6%	9.1%	78.4%	2.1	7.0	1.2	0.1	8.4	6.4
1983	28–29	WSB	35	0	11.0	47.3%	0.0%	50.0%	0.8	2.9	0.7	0.0	4.1	0.6
1984	29–30	SA	63	39	28.7	46.2%	27.5%	76.4%	2.9	10.7	1.5	0.1	10.9	9.6
1985	30–31	HOU	47	21	24.6	46.2%	31.8%	79.8%	1.8	6.8	1.3	0.0	11.4	4.5
1986	31–32	HOU	65	65	32.6	44.6%	30.8%	77.5%	2.2	8.8	1.2	0.1	15.5	7.3
1987	32–33	MIL	43	40	31.6	45.7%	36.5%	78.7%	2.9	6.7	1.7	0.1	17.5	5
1988	33–34	MIL	81	22	21.8	44.5%	33.8%	80.2%	2.0	4.8	1.1	0.0	9.2	4.8
1989	34–35	SEA	74	8	11.4	39.8%	26.5%	70.1%	1.1	3.5	0.8	0.0	4.2	1.3
1990	35–36	HOU	49	18	19.1	37.5%	29.9%	76.4%	1.8	4.9	0.9	0.0	5.8	1.5