CChicagoNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2003 📈 Late Developer · 1989

Robert Parish

7'1" · 244 lbsBorn August 30, 19531977–1997College: CentenaryDraft: 1976 · Rd 1, Pick 8 · Golden State Warriors

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

10.7

1981, 1987, 1989 avg

Career VAL

129.4

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

134.9

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

25% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

21 seasons · peak 11.3 in 1989

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1973	Centenary	27	27	32.8	57.9%	—	61.0%	18.7	0.9	—	—	23.0
1974	Centenary	25	25	33.6	52.3%	—	62.8%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 98.4th 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
1977	23	GS	77	1	18.0	50.3%	—	70.8%	7.1	1.0	0.7	1.2	9.1	2.8
1978	24	GS	82	37	24.0	47.2%	—	62.5%	8.3	1.2	1.0	1.5	12.5	1.9
1979	25	GS	76	75	31.7	49.9%	—	69.8%	12.1	1.5	1.3	2.9	17.2	5.9
1980	26	GS	72	69	29.4	50.7%	0.0%	71.5%	10.9	1.7	0.8	1.6	17.0	4.6
1981	27	BOS	82	78	28.0	54.5%	0.0%	71.0%	9.5	1.8	1.0	2.6	18.9	10.4
1982	28	BOS	80	78	31.7	54.2%	—	71.0%	10.8	1.8	0.8	2.4	19.9	9.2
1983	29	BOS	78	76	31.5	55.0%	0.0%	69.8%	10.6	1.8	1.0	1.9	19.3	9.9
1984	30	BOS	80	79	35.8	54.6%	—	74.5%	10.7	1.7	0.7	1.5	19.0	8.6
1985	31	BOS	79	78	36.1	54.2%	—	74.3%	10.6	1.6	0.7	1.3	17.6	7.1
1986	32	BOS	81	80	31.7	54.9%	—	73.1%	9.5	1.8	0.8	1.4	16.1	8
1987	33	BOS	80	80	37.4	55.6%	0.0%	73.5%	10.6	2.2	0.8	1.8	17.5	10.3
1988	34	BOS	74	73	31.2	58.9%	0.0%	73.4%	8.5	1.6	0.7	1.1	14.3	8.4
1989	35	BOS	80	80	35.5	57.0%	—	71.9%	12.5	2.2	1.0	1.5	18.6	11.3
1990	36	BOS	79	78	30.3	58.0%	—	74.7%	10.1	1.3	0.5	0.9	15.7	8.2
1991	37	BOS	81	81	30.1	59.8%	0.0%	76.7%	10.6	0.8	0.8	1.3	14.9	9.6
1992	38	BOS	79	79	28.9	53.5%	—	77.2%	8.9	0.9	0.9	1.2	14.1	6.1
1993	39	BOS	79	79	27.2	53.5%	—	68.9%	9.4	0.8	0.7	1.4	12.6	4.1
1994	40	BOS	74	74	26.9	49.1%	—	74.0%	7.3	1.1	0.6	1.3	11.7	3
1995	41	CHH	81	4	16.7	42.7%	—	70.3%	4.3	0.5	0.3	0.4	4.8	0
1996	42	CHH	74	34	14.7	49.8%	—	70.4%	4.1	0.4	0.3	0.7	3.9	0
1997	43	CHI	43	3	9.4	49.0%	—	67.7%	2.1	0.5	0.1	0.4	3.7	0