Phil Ford played 7 seasons (1979–1985) for KCK, MIL, NJ and HOU. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1979.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
7 seasons · peak 12.1 in 1979
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | North Carolina | 31 | — | — | 51.6% | — | 78.3% | 2.7 | 5.2 | — | — | 16.4 |
| 1976 | North Carolina | 29 | — | — | 53.2% | — | 78.0% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 89.2th 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
Rate Phil Ford — All-Time
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.
27.9 career wins over 7 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1979 · +7.0 wins
Latest season · 1985 · −0.1 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 Phil Ford 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
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1979, 7 rated seasons.
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| 1.8 |
| 7.0 |
| 1.8 |
| 0.0 |
| 18.6 |
| 1977 | North Carolina | 33 | — | — | 53.4% | — | 85.3% | 1.9 | 6.6 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 18.7 |
| 1978 | North Carolina | 30 | — | — | 52.7% | — | 81.0% | 2.1 | 5.7 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 20.8 |
Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 7 seasons (1979–1985) — a true nomad. The crest trail: