CSan AntonioNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2001 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1981

Moses Malone

6'10" · 260 lbsBorn March 23, 19551975–1995

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

11.1

1979, 1981, 1982 avg

Career VAL

99.5

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

93.3

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

33% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

20 seasons · peak 11.3 in 1981

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 96.9th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#94Era-adjusted careersof 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	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1975	19–20	Utah (ABA)	83	—	38.6	57.1%	0.0%	63.5%	14.6	1.0	1.0	1.5	18.8	10.2
1976	20–21	St. Louis (ABA)	43	—	27.2	51.2%	0.0%	61.2%	9.6	1.3	0.6	0.7	14.3	1.8
1977	21–22	All teams	82	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.6
1978	22–23	HOU	59	—	35.7	49.9%	—	71.8%	15.0	0.5	0.8	1.3	19.4	3.2
1979	23–24	HOU	82	—	41.3	54.0%	—	73.9%	17.6	1.8	1.0	1.5	24.8	11.1
1980	24–25	HOU	82	—	38.3	50.2%	0.0%	71.9%	14.5	1.8	1.0	1.3	25.8	6.9
1981	25–26	HOU	80	—	40.6	52.2%	33.3%	75.7%	14.8	1.8	1.0	1.9	27.8	11.3
1982	26–27	HOU	81	81	42.0	51.9%	0.0%	76.2%	14.7	1.8	0.9	1.5	31.1	10.9
1983	27–28	PHI	78	78	37.5	50.1%	0.0%	76.1%	15.3	1.3	1.1	2.0	24.5	8.1
1984	28–29	PHI	71	71	36.8	48.3%	0.0%	75.0%	13.4	1.4	1.0	1.5	22.7	3.8
1985	29–30	PHI	79	79	37.4	46.9%	0.0%	81.5%	13.1	1.6	0.8	1.6	24.6	4.2
1986	30–31	PHI	74	74	36.6	45.8%	0.0%	78.7%	11.8	1.2	0.9	1.0	23.8	2.1
1987	31–32	WSB	73	70	34.1	45.4%	0.0%	82.4%	11.3	1.6	0.8	1.3	24.1	3.8
1988	32–33	WSB	79	78	34.1	48.7%	28.6%	78.8%	11.2	1.4	0.7	0.9	20.3	4.5
1989	33–34	ATL	81	80	35.5	49.1%	0.0%	78.9%	11.8	1.4	1.0	1.2	20.2	5.9
1990	34–35	ATL	81	81	33.8	48.0%	11.1%	78.1%	10.0	1.6	0.6	1.0	18.9	3.9
1991	35–36	ATL	82	15	23.3	46.8%	0.0%	83.1%	8.1	0.8	0.4	0.9	10.6	1.1
1992	36–37	MIL	82	77	30.6	47.4%	37.5%	78.6%	9.1	1.1	0.9	0.8	15.6	3.1
1993	37–38	MIL	11	0	9.5	31.0%	—	77.4%	4.2	0.6	0.1	0.7	4.5	—
1994	38–39	PHI	55	0	11.2	44.0%	0.0%	76.9%	4.1	0.6	0.2	0.3	5.3	0
1995	39–40	SA	17	0	8.8	37.1%	50.0%	68.8%	2.7	0.4	0.1	0.2	2.9	0

Moses Malone

NBA Stats

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Career arc · VAL by season

All-time standings

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