SGBostonNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1987 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1973

Pete Maravich

6'5" · 197 lbsBorn June 22, 19471971–1980College: LSUDraft: 1970 · Rd 1, Pick 3 · Atlanta Hawks

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

9.1

1971, 1973, 1974 avg

Career VAL

66.7

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

20.3

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

41% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

10 seasons · peak 9.5 in 1973

International Stats

International Per Game — Freshman

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1967	Louisiana State	19	19	—	45.2%	—	83.3%	10.4	—	—	—	43.6

International Per Game — Varsity

Season	Team	GP

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 93.0th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#69Most consistent careersof 100

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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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1971	23–24	ATL	81	—	36.1	45.8%	—	80.0%	3.7	4.4	—	—	23.2	8.4
1972	24–25	ATL	66	—	34.9	42.7%	—	81.1%	3.9	6.0	—	—	19.3	5.9
1973	25–26	ATL	79	—	39.1	44.1%	—	80.0%	4.4	6.9	—	—	26.1	9.5
1974	26–27	ATL	76	—	38.2	45.7%	—	82.6%	4.9	5.2	1.5	0.2	27.7	9.4
1975	27–28	NOJ	79	—	36.1	41.9%	—	81.1%	5.3	6.2	1.5	0.2	21.5	6.7
1976	28–29	NOJ	62	—	38.3	45.9%	—	81.1%	4.8	5.4	1.4	0.4	25.9	8.3
1977	29–30	NOJ	73	—	41.7	43.3%	—	83.5%	5.1	5.4	1.2	0.3	31.1	7.3
1978	30–31	NOJ	50	—	40.8	44.4%	—	87.0%	3.6	6.7	2.0	0.2	27.0	7.3
1979	31–32	NOJ	49	—	37.2	42.1%	—	84.1%	2.5	5.0	1.2	0.4	22.6	2.8
1980	32–33	All teams	43	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1

1968	Louisiana State	26	26	—	42.3%	—	81.1%	7.5	4.0	—	—	43.8
1969	Louisiana State	26	26	—	44.4%	—	74.6%	6.5	4.9	—	—	44.2
1970	Louisiana State	31	31	—	44.7%	—	77.3%	5.3	6.2	—	—	44.5