SG/PGPhoenixNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2019

Paul Westphal

6'4" · 195 lbsBorn November 30, 19501973–1984College: USCDraft: 1972 · Rd 1, Pick 10 · Boston Celtics

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

16.3

1976, 1977, 1979 avg

Career VAL

99.5

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

61.1

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

49% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

12 seasons · peak 17.2 in 1979 · league-best season: 1978

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 96.9th 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
1973	21–22	BOS	60	—	8.0	42.0%	—	77.9%	1.1	1.2	—	—	4.1	0
1974	22–23	BOS	82	—	14.2	50.1%	—	73.2%	1.7	2.1	0.5	0.4	7.2	2.5
1975	23–24	BOS	82	—	19.3	51.0%	—	76.3%	2.0	2.9	1.0	0.4	9.8	5.9
1976	24–25	PHX	82	—	36.1	49.4%	—	83.0%	3.2	5.4	2.6	0.5	20.5	15.7
1977	25–26	PHX	81	—	32.1	51.8%	—	82.5%	2.3	5.7	1.7	0.3	21.3	16.1
1978	26–27	PHX	80	—	31.0	51.6%	—	81.3%	2.1	5.5	1.7	0.4	25.2	15.6
1979	27–28	PHX	81	—	32.6	53.5%	—	83.7%	2.0	6.5	1.4	0.3	24.0	17.2
1980	28–29	PHX	82	82	32.5	52.5%	28.0%	86.2%	2.3	5.1	1.5	0.4	21.9	14.8
1981	29–30	SEA	36	—	29.9	44.2%	24.0%	83.2%	1.9	4.1	1.3	0.4	16.7	2.4
1982	30–31	NY	18	12	25.1	44.3%	25.0%	76.6%	1.2	5.6	1.1	0.4	11.7	1.2
1983	31–32	NY	80	59	24.7	45.9%	29.2%	80.4%	1.4	5.5	1.1	0.2	10.0	6.6
1984	32–33	PHX	59	2	14.7	46.0%	26.9%	82.4%	0.7	2.5	0.7	0.1	7.0	1.5