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Johnny Kerr

6'9" · 230 lbsBorn July 17, 19321955–1966College: IllinoisDraft: 1954 · Rd 1, Pick 6 · Syracuse Nationals

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

7.4

1959, 1963, 1964 avg

Career VAL

52.5

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

58.6

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

42% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

12 seasons · peak 7.7 in 1959

International Stats

International Per Game — All-Star Games

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1956	Syracuse	1	—	16.0	50.0%	—	0.0%	8.0	0.0	—	—	4.0
1959	Syracuse	1	—	21.0	21.4%	—

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 90.0th 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
1955	22	SYR	72	—	21.2	41.9%	—	68.2%	6.6	1.1	—	—	10.5	2.7
1956	23	SYR	72	—	29.4	40.3%	—	65.5%	8.4	1.2	—	—	13.3	2.7
1957	24	SYR	72	—	30.4	40.3%	—	71.9%	11.2	1.3	—	—	12.4	3.5
1958	25	SYR	72	—	33.1	39.9%	—	66.4%	13.4	1.2	—	—	15.2	3.4
1959	26	SYR	72	—	37.1	44.1%	—	76.6%	14.0	2.0	—	—	17.8	7.7
1960	27	SYR	75	—	31.6	39.2%	—	75.2%	12.2	2.2	—	—	14.7	3.1
1961	28	SYR	79	—	33.9	39.7%	—	72.9%	12.0	2.5	—	—	13.4	3.4
1962	29	SYR	80	—	34.6	44.3%	—	73.5%	14.7	3.0	—	—	16.3	6.9
1963	30	SYR	80	—	32.0	47.4%	—	75.3%	13.0	2.7	—	—	15.7	7.7
1964	31	PHI	80	—	36.7	42.9%	—	75.1%	12.7	3.4	—	—	16.8	6.9
1965	32	PHI	80	—	22.6	37.0%	—	69.6%	6.9	2.5	—	—	8.2	1.2
1966	33	BAL	71	—	24.9	41.3%	—	76.8%	8.3	3.2	—	—	11.0	3.3