Popeye Jones played 11 seasons (1994–2004) for DAL, TOR, BOS and 3 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 607 points, 638 rebounds and 135 assists. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1997.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Murray State | 30 | 1 | 17.3 | 48.9% | — | 75.4% | 4.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 5.8 |
| 1990 | Murray State | 30 | 30 | 34.6 | 50.0% | 44.1% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 62.3th 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 Popeye Jones — All-Time
9 seasons · peak 2.4 in 1997
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.
4.2 career wins over 9 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1997 · +1.4 wins
Latest season · 2003 · −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 Popeye Jones 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
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1997, 9 rated seasons.
Includes verified pre-2002 NBA per-game rows in the main Per Game table; totals and advanced rows remain limited to their exact source coverage.
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| 75.7% |
| 11.2 |
| 2.0 |
| 1.9 |
| 0.6 |
| 19.5 |
| 1991 | Murray State | 33 | 32 | 31.9 | 49.3% | 21.9% | 71.1% | 14.2 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 20.2 |
| 1992 | Murray State | 30 | 29 | 33.1 | 48.8% | 38.9% | 77.8% | 14.4 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 21.1 |
Wore 6 distinct franchise crests across 11 seasons (1994–2004) — a true nomad. The crest trail: