Lance Thomas played 9 seasons (2012–2020) for NO, NY, OKC and BKN. Career regular-season line: 2,050 points, 1,017 rebounds and 265 assists. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 2012.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 2007 | Duke | 31 | 18 | 14.9 | 56.8% | — | 59.3% | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | Duke | 32 | 28 | 18.5 | 50.5% | — | 52.1% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 28.0th 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 TermsNBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNBA JourneymenNBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNBA LoyaltyNBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
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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7 seasons · peak 0.0 in 2012
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.
0.0 career wins over 7 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 2012 · −0.1 wins
Latest season · 2019 · −1.4 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 Lance Thomas 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
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 2012, 7 rated seasons.
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| 2009 | Duke | 37 | 16 | 18.6 | 62.6% | — | 55.3% | 3.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | Duke | 40 | 39 | 25.3 | 43.9% | — | 74.3% | 4.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 4.8 |
Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 9 seasons (2012–2020) — a true nomad. The crest trail: