SFPhiladelphia (NBA)NBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1993 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1976

Julius Erving

6'7" · 210 lbsBorn February 22, 19501972–1987College: UMassDraft: 1972 · Rd 1, Pick 12 · Milwaukee Bucks

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

19.3

1974, 1975, 1976 avg

Career VAL

208.9

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

202.3

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

28% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

16 seasons · peak 20.6 in 1976 · league-best seasons: 1974, 1975, 1976

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 99.5th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#1 · Philadelphia 76ers160.9 legacy · 69% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 4 boards

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

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
1972	21–22	Virginia (ABA)	84	—	41.8	49.8%	18.8%	74.5%	15.7	4.0	—	—	27.3	13.7
1973	22–23	Virginia (ABA)	71	—	42.2	49.6%	20.8%	77.6%	12.2	4.2	2.5	1.8	31.9	12.7
1974	23–24	New York (ABA)	84	—	40.5	51.2%	39.5%	76.6%	10.7	5.2	2.3	2.4	27.4	18.2
1975	24–25	New York (ABA)	84	—	40.5	50.6%	33.3%	79.9%	10.9	5.5	2.2	1.9	27.9	19.1
1976	25–26	New York (ABA)	84	—	38.6	50.7%	33.0%	80.1%	11.0	5.0	2.5	1.9	29.3	20.6
1977	26–27	PHI	82	—	35.9	49.9%	—	77.7%	8.5	3.7	1.9	1.4	21.6	12.7
1978	27–28	PHI	74	—	32.8	50.2%	—	84.5%	6.5	3.8	1.8	1.3	20.6	11.5
1979	28–29	PHI	78	—	35.9	49.1%	—	74.5%	7.2	4.6	1.7	1.3	23.1	9.8
1980	29–30	PHI	78	—	36.1	51.9%	20.0%	78.7%	7.4	4.6	2.2	1.8	26.9	15.5
1981	30–31	PHI	82	—	35.0	52.1%	22.2%	78.7%	8.0	4.4	2.1	1.8	24.6	16
1982	31–32	PHI	81	81	34.4	54.6%	27.3%	76.3%	6.9	3.9	2.0	1.7	24.4	16.5
1983	32–33	PHI	72	72	33.6	51.7%	28.6%	75.9%	6.8	3.7	1.6	1.8	21.4	11.2
1984	33–34	PHI	77	77	34.8	51.2%	33.3%	75.4%	6.9	4.0	1.8	1.8	22.4	11.4
1985	34–35	PHI	78	78	32.5	49.4%	21.4%	76.5%	5.3	3.0	1.7	1.4	20.0	7.8
1986	35–36	PHI	74	74	33.4	48.0%	28.1%	78.5%	5.0	3.4	1.5	1.1	18.1	6.7
1987	36–37	PHI	60	60	32.0	47.1%	26.4%	81.3%	4.4	3.2	1.3	1.6	16.8	5.5