Pat Riley

6'4" · 205 lbsBorn March 20, 19451968–1976College: KentuckyDraft: 1967 · Rd 1, Pick 7 · San Diego Rockets

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

0.6

1969, 1974, 1975 avg

Career VAL

2.1

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

17.2

postseason

Career Shape

Comet

81% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

9 seasons · peak 0.8 in 1974

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1965	Kentucky	25	—	33.0	43.2%	—	61.8%	8.5	1.1	—	—	15.0
1966	Kentucky	29	—	37.2	51.6%	—	69.9%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 48.5th 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
1968	22–23	SDR	80	—	15.8	37.9%	—	63.4%	2.2	1.7	—	—	7.9	0
1969	23–24	SDR	56	—	18.3	40.6%	—	67.2%	2.0	2.4	—	—	8.8	0.3
1970	24–25	SDR	36	—	13.2	41.7%	—	72.7%	1.6	2.4	—	—	5.3	0.2
1971	25–26	LAL	54	—	9.4	41.3%	—	64.4%	1.0	1.3	—	—	4.9	0
1972	26–27	LAL	67	—	13.8	44.7%	—	74.3%	1.9	1.1	—	—	6.7	0.1
1973	27–28	LAL	55	—	14.6	42.8%	—	79.3%	1.2	1.5	—	—	7.3	0.1
1974	28–29	LAL	72	—	18.9	43.0%	—	76.4%	1.8	2.1	0.8	0.0	9.5	0.8
1975	29–30	LAL	46	—	22.1	41.9%	—	74.2%	1.8	2.6	0.8	0.1	11.0	0.6
1976	30–31	All teams	62	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0