SGSANBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 2000

Michael Finley

6'7" · 225 lbsBorn March 6, 19731996–2010College: WisconsinDraft: 1995 · Rd 1, Pick 21 · 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

11.0

1998, 2000, 2001 avg

Career VAL

84.1

Value Above League

Games

641

Points

8,427

Rebounds

2,411

Assists

1,311

Win Shares

46.2

Playoff VAL

63.2

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1992	Wisconsin	31	28	29.7	45.3%	36.1%	74.2%	4.9	2.7	0.9	0.8	12.3
1993	Wisconsin	28	28	35.0	46.7%	36.4%	77.1%

International Stats

International Per Game — Finals

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2007	San Antonio	4	4	18.5	26.1%	8.3%	66.7%	2.0	0.8	1.3	0.0	3.8
2010	Boston	2	0	2.5	0.0%	0.0%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 95.6th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

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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Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
1996	22–23	PHX	82	39.2	15.0	4.6	3.5	1.0	0.4	—	47.6%	32.8%	74.9%	0.07
1997	23–24	All teams	83	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.05
1998	24–25	DAL	82	41.4	21.5	5.3	4.9	1.6	0.4	—	44.9%	35.7%	78.4%	0.12
1999	25–26	DAL	50	41.0	20.2	5.3	4.4	1.3	0.3	—	44.4%	33.1%	82.3%	0.13
2000	26–27	DAL	82	42.2	22.6	6.3	5.3	1.3	0.4	—	45.7%	40.1%	82.0%	0.15
2001	27–28	DAL	82	42.0	21.5	5.2	4.4	1.4	0.4	—	45.8%	34.6%	77.5%	0.14
2002	28–29	DAL	69	39.9	20.6	5.2	3.3	0.9	0.4	1.7	46.3%	33.9%	83.7%	0.07
2003	29–30	DAL	69	38.3	19.3	5.8	3.0	1.1	0.3	1.7	42.5%	37.0%	86.1%	0.10
2004	30–31	DAL	72	38.6	18.6	4.5	2.9	1.2	0.5	1.2	44.3%	40.5%	85.0%	0.06
2005	31–32	DAL	64	36.8	15.7	4.1	2.6	0.8	0.3	0.9	42.7%	40.7%	83.1%	0.07
2006	32–33	SA	76	26.4	10.2	3.2	1.5	0.5	0.1	0.8	41.5%	40.0%	84.8%	0.06
2007	33–34	SA	82	22.2	9.0	2.7	1.3	0.4	0.2	0.6	41.2%	36.4%	91.8%	0.05
2008	34–35	SA	82	27.0	10.1	3.1	1.4	0.4	0.1	0.7	41.4%	37.0%	80.0%	0.03
2009	35–36	SA	81	28.8	9.7	3.3	1.4	0.5	0.2	0.8	43.7%	41.1%	82.3%	0.03
2010	36–37	All teams	46	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.01