FMINNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 2007

Luol Deng

6'9" · 237 lbsBorn April 16, 19852005–2019College: DukeDraft: 2004 · Rd 1, Pick 7 · Phoenix SunsESPN ↗

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

10.5

2006, 2007, 2011 avg

Career VAL

68.9

Value Above League

Games

901

Points

13,347

Rebounds

5,462

Assists

2,040

Win Shares

77.0

Playoff VAL

48.8

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2004	Duke	37	32	31.1	47.6%	36.0%	71.0%	6.9	1.8	1.3	1.1	15.1

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 93.5th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#87Breakout seasons· 2007of 150

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)

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	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
2005	19–20	CHI	61	27.3	11.7	5.3	2.2	0.8	0.4	1.9	43.4%	26.5%	74.1%	0.07
2006	20–21	CHI	77	33.4	14.3	6.6	1.9	0.9	0.6	1.3	46.3%	27.3%	74.9%	0.08
2007	21–22	CHI	82	37.5	18.8	7.1	2.5	1.2	0.6	1.9	51.7%	14.3%	77.7%	0.17
2008	22–23	CHI	63	33.7	17.0	6.3	2.5	0.9	0.5	1.9	47.9%	36.4%	77.0%	0.07
2009	23–24	CHI	49	34.0	14.1	6.0	1.9	1.2	0.5	1.5	44.8%	40.0%	79.6%	0.04
2010	24–25	CHI	70	37.9	17.6	7.3	2.0	0.9	0.9	1.9	46.6%	38.6%	76.4%	0.07
2011	25–26	CHI	82	39.2	17.4	5.8	2.8	1.0	0.6	1.9	46.0%	34.5%	75.3%	0.13
2012	26–27	CHI	54	39.5	15.3	6.5	2.9	1.0	0.7	1.8	41.2%	36.7%	77.0%	0.10
2013	27–28	CHI	75	38.7	16.5	6.3	3.0	1.1	0.4	1.9	42.6%	32.2%	81.6%	0.07
2014	28–29	All teams	63	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.07
2015	29–30	MIA	72	33.6	14.0	5.2	1.9	0.9	0.3	1.5	46.9%	35.5%	76.1%	0.04
2016	30–31	MIA	74	32.4	12.3	6.0	1.9	1.0	0.4	1.1	45.5%	34.4%	75.5%	0.05
2017	31–32	LAL	56	26.5	7.6	5.3	1.3	0.9	0.4	0.8	38.7%	30.9%	73.0%	0.00
2018	32–33	LAL	1	13.0	2.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	50.0%	—	—	—
2019	33–34	MIN	22	18.0	7.1	3.3	0.8	0.7	0.4	0.6	50.0%	31.8%	71.4%	0.01