K. C. Jones played 9 seasons (1959–1967) for BOS. Late Developer career, peaking in 1966. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
9 seasons · peak 4.9 in 1966
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 79.0th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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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.
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.
Fan Rating
Rate K. C. Jones — All-Time
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NBA season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
13.8 career wins over 9 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1966 · +2.9 wins
Latest season · 1967 · +1.8 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NBA player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often K. C. Jones led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 1966, 9 rated seasons.
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Gave the Boston Celtics an entire corpus-attributed career — 9 seasons (1959–1967), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.