Ray Williams

6'3" · 188 lbsBorn October 14, 19541978–1987College: San Jacinto, MinnesotaDraft: 1977 · Rd 1, Pick 10 · New York Knicks

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

11.3

1980, 1981, 1982 avg

Career VAL

65.1

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

24.5

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

52% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

10 seasons · peak 12.5 in 1980

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 92.6th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

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)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's Doorstep NBA Journeymen NBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading Seasons NBA Loyalty NBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity

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
1978	22–23	NY	81	—	19.1	44.3%	—	70.5%	2.6	4.5	1.3	0.2	9.3	4.3
1979	23–24	NY	81	—	29.3	45.7%	—	80.2%	3.6	6.2	1.6	0.2	17.3	8.3
1980	24–25	NY	82	—	31.5	49.6%	18.9%	78.7%	5.0	6.2	2.0	0.3	20.9	12.5
1981	25–26	NY	79	—	34.7	46.1%	23.5%	81.7%	4.1	5.5	2.3	0.5	19.7	10.1
1982	26–27	NJ	82	69	33.3	46.2%	16.7%	83.2%	4.0	6.0	2.4	0.5	20.4	11.2
1983	27–28	KCK	72	68	30.1	39.2%	20.3%	76.9%	4.5	7.9	1.7	0.4	15.4	5.7
1984	28–29	NY	76	63	29.3	44.5%	30.9%	82.7%	3.5	5.9	2.1	0.3	14.8	7.9
1985	29–30	BOS	23	5	20.0	38.5%	26.1%	67.4%	2.5	3.9	1.3	0.2	6.4	0.5
1986	30–31	All teams	47	21	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
1987	31–32	NJ	32	14	25.0	45.2%	25.0%	81.7%	2.3	5.8	1.2	0.3	9.9	2.8