Paul Thompson played 3 seasons (1984–1986) for CLE, MIL and PHI. Shooting Star career, peaking in 1984.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
3 seasons · peak 1.6 in 1984
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Tulane | 26 | — | 31.2 | 46.2% | — | 70.0% | 8.2 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 15.0 |
| 1981 | Tulane | 27 | 26 | 35.7 | 44.7% | — | 80.5% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 47.0th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNBA JourneymenNBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNBA LoyaltyNBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
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.
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.
Fan Rating
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VAL (Value Above League) measures each NBA season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
1.1 career wins over 3 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1984 · +0.9 wins
Latest season · 1986 · −0.3 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NBA player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Paul Thompson led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Shooting Star
One or two seasons that define the entire career — brief but incandescent. Peak 1984, 3 rated seasons.
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| 9.4 |
| 1.9 |
| 1.2 |
| 1.3 |
| 18.7 |
| 1982 | Tulane | 28 | 27 | 34.0 | 49.3% | — | 78.2% | 7.4 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 14.7 |
| 1983 | Tulane | 31 | 29 | 36.4 | 50.8% | — | 79.5% | 7.4 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 17.5 |
Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 3 seasons (1984–1986) — a true nomad. The crest trail: