Kevin Johnson

6'1" · 190 lbsBorn March 4, 19661988–2000College: CaliforniaDraft: 1987 · Rd 1, Pick 7 · Cleveland Cavaliers

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

18.6

1989, 1990, 1991 avg

Career VAL

138.5

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

89.9

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

40% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

11 seasons · peak 20.9 in 1989

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 98.6th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#2 · Phoenix Suns125.9 legacy · 91% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 3 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 NBA Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape NBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust

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
1988	21–22	All teams	80	28	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	7
1989	22–23	PHX	81	81	39.2	50.5%	9.1%	88.2%	4.2	12.2	1.7	0.3	20.4	20.9
1990	23–24	PHX	74	74	37.6	49.9%	19.5%	83.8%	3.6	11.4	1.3	0.2	22.5	16.5
1991	24–25	PHX	77	76	36.0	51.6%	20.5%	84.3%	3.5	10.1	2.1	0.1	22.2	18.5
1992	25–26	PHX	78	78	37.2	47.9%	21.7%	80.7%	3.7	10.7	1.5	0.3	19.7	14.8
1993	26–27	PHX	49	47	33.5	49.9%	12.5%	81.9%	2.1	7.8	1.7	0.4	16.1	8.1
1994	27–28	PHX	67	67	36.6	48.7%	22.2%	81.9%	2.5	9.5	1.9	0.1	20.0	13.9
1995	28–29	PHX	47	35	28.8	47.0%	15.4%	81.0%	2.4	7.7	1.0	0.4	15.5	6.4
1996	29–30	PHX	56	55	35.8	50.7%	36.8%	85.9%	3.9	9.2	1.5	0.2	18.7	12.5
1997	30–31	PHX	70	70	38.0	49.6%	44.1%	85.2%	3.6	9.3	1.5	0.2	20.1	16.2
1998	31–32	PHX	50	12	25.8	44.7%	15.4%	87.1%	3.3	4.9	0.5	0.2	9.5	3.7
2000	33–34	PHX	6	0	18.8	57.1%	100.0%	100.0%	2.7	4.0	0.3	0.0	6.7	—