Larry Bird played 13 seasons (1980–1992) for BOS. Late Developer career, peaking in 1987. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1998.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
12 seasons · peak 21.1 in 1987
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Indiana State | 28 | — | 36.9 | 54.4% | — | 84.0% | 13.3 | 4.4 | — | — | 32.8 |
| 1978 | Indiana State | 32 | — | — | 52.4% | — | 79.3% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 99.2th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Franchise face
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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 Larry Bird — 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.
100.0 career wins over 12 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1987 · +12.2 wins
Latest season · 1992 · +3.7 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 Larry Bird 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 1987, 12 rated seasons.
The season chip above measures Larry Bird'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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| 1979 | Indiana State | 34 | — | — | 53.2% | — | 83.1% | 14.9 | 5.5 | — | — | 28.6 |
Gave the Boston Celtics an entire corpus-attributed career — 13 seasons (1980–1992), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.