SFGolden StateNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 1986

Paul Pressey

6'5" · 185 lbsBorn December 24, 19581983–1993College: Western Texas, TulsaDraft: 1982 · Rd 1, Pick 20 · Milwaukee Bucks

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

11.8

1985, 1986, 1988 avg

Career VAL

66.4

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

59.9

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

53% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

11 seasons · peak 13.2 in 1986

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1981	Tulsa	33	32	31.8	47.6%	—	57.9%	5.4	5.2	2.9	0.8	10.3
1982	Tulsa	30	30	32.4	56.0%	—	66.4%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 92.9th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#80Breakout seasons· 1985of 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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Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1983	23–24	MIL	79	18	19.3	45.7%	11.1%	59.7%	3.6	2.6	1.3	0.6	6.7	2.4
1984	24–25	MIL	81	18	21.4	52.3%	22.2%	60.0%	3.5	3.1	1.1	0.6	8.3	4.4
1985	25–26	MIL	80	80	36.0	51.7%	35.0%	75.8%	5.4	6.8	1.6	0.7	16.1	12
1986	26–27	MIL	80	80	33.8	48.8%	18.2%	80.6%	5.0	7.8	2.1	0.9	14.3	13.2
1987	27–28	MIL	61	60	33.7	47.7%	29.1%	73.8%	4.9	7.2	1.8	0.8	13.9	8.2
1988	28–29	MIL	75	75	33.1	49.1%	20.5%	79.8%	5.0	7.0	1.5	0.5	13.1	10.1
1989	29–30	MIL	67	62	32.4	47.4%	21.8%	77.6%	3.9	6.6	1.8	0.7	12.1	8.1
1990	30–31	MIL	57	2	24.6	47.2%	14.0%	75.8%	3.0	4.3	1.2	0.4	11.0	3.8
1991	31–32	SA	70	18	24.0	47.2%	28.1%	82.7%	2.5	3.9	0.9	0.5	7.5	4
1992	32–33	SA	56	7	13.6	37.3%	14.3%	68.3%	1.7	2.5	0.5	0.3	2.7	0.1
1993	33–34	GS	18	0	14.9	43.9%	0.0%	77.8%	1.7	1.7	0.6	0.3	4.4	0.1