CPhiladelphiaNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1990 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1954

Neil Johnston

6'8" · 210 lbsBorn February 4, 19291952–1959College: Ohio State

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

15.8

1953, 1954, 1956 avg

Career VAL

84.1

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

19.8

postseason

Career Shape

Comet

56% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

8 seasons · peak 18.6 in 1954 · league-best seasons: 1956, 1957

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.

On the boards· Appears on 2 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 NBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale NBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern Terms

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
1952	22–23	PHW	64	—	15.5	47.2%	—	66.2%	5.3	0.6	—	—	6.0	2.6
1953	23–24	PHW	70	—	45.2	45.2%	—	70.0%	13.9	2.8	—	—	22.3	14.9
1954	24–25	PHW	72	—	45.8	44.9%	—	74.7%	11.1	2.8	—	—	24.4	18.6
1955	25–26	PHW	72	—	40.5	44.0%	—	76.6%	15.1	3.0	—	—	22.7	12.4
1956	26–27	PHW	70	—	37.1	45.7%	—	80.1%	12.5	3.2	—	—	22.1	13.8
1957	27–28	PHW	69	—	36.7	44.7%	—	82.6%	12.4	2.9	—	—	22.8	12.8
1958	28–29	PHW	71	—	33.9	42.9%	—	81.9%	11.1	2.3	—	—	19.5	9
1959	29–30	PHW	28	—	14.0	32.9%	—	78.4%	5.0	0.8	—	—	6.3	0