PGMilwaukeeNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1991 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1973

Nate Archibald

6'1" · 150 lbsBorn September 2, 19481971–1984College: Arizona Western, UTEPDraft: 1970 · Rd 2, Pick 19 · Cincinnati Royals

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

17.6

1972, 1973, 1975 avg

Career VAL

119.1

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

31.1

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

44% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

13 seasons · peak 22.8 in 1973 · league-best season: 1973

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 97.9th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 3 boards

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

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
1971	22	CIN	82	—	35.0	44.4%	—	75.7%	3.0	5.5	—	—	16.0	6.6
1972	23	CIN	76	—	43.1	48.6%	—	82.2%	2.9	9.2	—	—	28.2	17
1973	24	KCK	80	—	46.0	48.8%	—	84.7%	2.8	11.4	—	—	34.0	22.8
1974	25	KCK	35	—	36.3	45.1%	—	82.0%	2.4	7.6	1.6	0.2	17.6	4.5
1975	26	KCK	82	—	39.6	45.6%	—	87.2%	2.7	6.8	1.5	0.1	26.5	13.1
1976	27	KCK	78	—	40.8	45.3%	—	80.2%	2.7	7.9	1.6	0.2	24.8	12.3
1977	28	NY	34	—	37.6	44.6%	—	78.5%	2.4	7.5	1.7	0.3	20.5	4.5
1979	30	BOS	69	—	24.1	45.2%	—	78.8%	1.5	4.7	0.8	0.1	11.0	3.7
1980	31	BOS	80	80	35.8	48.2%	22.2%	83.0%	2.5	8.4	1.3	0.1	14.1	11.3
1981	32	BOS	80	72	35.3	49.9%	0.0%	81.6%	2.2	7.7	0.9	0.2	13.8	11.1
1982	33	BOS	68	51	31.9	47.2%	37.5%	74.7%	1.7	8.0	0.8	0.0	12.6	7.1
1983	34	BOS	66	19	27.4	42.5%	20.8%	74.3%	1.4	6.2	0.6	0.1	10.5	3.6
1984	35	MIL	46	46	22.6	48.7%	22.2%	63.4%	1.7	3.5	0.7	0.0	7.4	1.5