Kevin McHale played 13 seasons (1981–1993) for BOS. Standard career, peaking in 1987. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
13 seasons · peak 21.0 in 1987
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 97.8th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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 PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern Terms
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
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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.
68.5 career wins over 13 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1987 · +12.2 wins
Latest season · 1993 · +0.4 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 Kevin McHale 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
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 1987, 13 rated seasons.
The season chip above measures Kevin McHale'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.
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Gave the Boston Celtics an entire corpus-attributed career — 13 seasons (1981–1993), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.