SFSan DiegoNBA⭐ Shooting Star · 1979

Nick Weatherspoon

6'7" · 195 lbsBorn July 20, 19501974–1980College: IllinoisDraft: 1973 · Rd 1, Pick 13 · Capital Bullets

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

1.3

1975, 1976, 1979 avg

Career VAL

4.0

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

16.6

postseason

Career Shape

Comet

100% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

7 seasons · peak 2.9 in 1979

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1971	Illinois	23	—	—	45.2%	—	71.8%	10.7	—	—	—	16.6
1972	Illinois	24	24	—	41.9%	—	74.6%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 55.9th 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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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1974	23	WSB	65	—	18.7	41.2%	—	69.1%	6.1	0.6	0.7	0.2	7.6	0
1975	24	WSB	82	—	16.4	45.6%	—	74.6%	4.2	0.6	0.8	0.3	7.5	0.3
1976	25	WSB	64	—	16.9	47.6%	—	70.1%	4.3	0.9	0.7	0.3	8.3	0.8
1977	26	All teams	62	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
1978	27	CHI	41	—	14.9	44.3%	—	88.1%	3.0	0.8	0.5	0.2	5.1	0
1979	28	SDC	82	—	32.2	48.0%	—	73.9%	5.5	1.6	1.0	0.5	13.8	2.9
1980	29	SDC	57	—	19.7	43.4%	—	69.2%	3.6	0.9	0.6	0.3	6.9	0