Larry Johnson

6'7" · 235 lbsBorn March 14, 19691992–2001College: Odessa, UNLVDraft: 1991 · Rd 1, Pick 1 · Charlotte Hornets

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

9.0

1992, 1993, 1995 avg

Career VAL

55.7

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

42.2

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

49% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

10 seasons · peak 10.5 in 1993

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1990	UNLV	40	40	31.5	62.4%	34.2%	76.7%	11.4	2.1	1.6	1.4	20.6
1991	UNLV	35	35	31.8	66.2%	35.4%	81.8%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 90.7th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#4 · Charlotte Hornets27.9 legacy · 50% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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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 NBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale NBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern Terms NBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team NBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's Doorstep NBA Journeymen NBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading Seasons NBA Loyalty NBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity

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
1992	22–23	CHH	82	77	37.2	49.0%	22.7%	82.9%	11.0	3.6	1.0	0.6	19.2	8.3
1993	23–24	CHH	82	82	40.5	52.6%	25.4%	76.7%	10.5	4.3	0.6	0.3	22.1	10.5
1994	24–25	CHH	51	51	34.5	51.5%	23.8%	69.5%	8.8	3.6	0.6	0.3	16.4	4.4
1995	25–26	CHH	81	81	39.9	48.0%	38.6%	77.4%	7.2	4.6	1.0	0.3	18.8	8.3
1996	26–27	CHH	81	81	40.4	47.6%	36.6%	75.7%	8.4	4.4	0.7	0.5	20.5	7.6
1997	27–28	NY	76	76	34.4	51.2%	32.4%	69.3%	5.2	2.3	0.8	0.5	12.8	5.5
1998	28–29	NY	70	70	34.5	48.5%	23.8%	75.6%	5.7	2.1	0.6	0.2	15.5	4.5
1999	29–30	NY	49	48	33.4	45.9%	35.9%	81.7%	5.8	2.4	0.7	0.2	12.0	3.2
2000	30–31	NY	70	68	32.6	43.3%	33.3%	76.6%	5.4	2.5	0.6	0.1	10.7	2
2001	31–32	NY	65	65	32.4	41.1%	31.3%	79.7%	5.6	2.0	0.6	0.4	9.9	1.4