Karl Malone played 19 seasons (1986–2004) for UTAH and LAL. Career regular-season line: 4,009 points, 1,681 rebounds and 883 assists. Late Developer career, peaking in 1997. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2010.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 99.8th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
A standing above rests on a career total that predates the corpus, so the true figure is higher than shown.
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NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Playoffs
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.
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Rate Karl Malone — All-Time
19 seasons · peak 20.4 in 1997 · league-best season: 1998
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.
139.5 career wins over 19 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1997 · +11.8 wins
Latest season · 2004 · +2.6 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 Karl Malone 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.
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league-leading seasons · 2 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 1997, 19 rated seasons.
Season boards
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top-ten finishes across the NBA season boards
The season chip above measures Karl Malone's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
Includes verified pre-2002 NBA per-game rows in the main Per Game table; totals and advanced rows remain limited to their exact source coverage.
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