SG/PGL.A. LakersNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 1989

Ron Harper

6'6" · 215 lbsBorn January 20, 19641987–2001College: Miami (Ohio)Draft: 1986 · Rd 1, Pick 8 · Cleveland Cavaliers

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

9.4

1987, 1989, 1993 avg

Career VAL

67.0

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

69.5

postseason

Career Shape

Balanced

42% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

15 seasons · peak 13.0 in 1989

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1983	Miami (OH)	28	—	31.7	49.7%	—	67.4%	7.0	2.2	2.2	1.0	12.9
1984	Miami (OH)	30	—	33.0	53.7%	—	57.0%

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.

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
1987	22–23	CLE	82	82	37.4	45.5%	21.3%	68.4%	4.8	4.8	2.5	1.0	22.9	7.8
1988	23–24	CLE	52	52	32.1	46.4%	15.0%	70.5%	3.9	4.9	2.1	0.9	15.4	4.9
1989	24–25	CLE	82	82	34.8	51.1%	25.0%	75.1%	5.0	5.3	2.3	0.9	18.6	13
1990	25–26	All teams	35	35	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.8
1991	26–27	LAC	39	34	35.5	39.1%	32.4%	66.8%	4.8	5.4	1.7	0.9	19.6	0.4
1992	27–28	LAC	82	82	38.3	44.0%	30.3%	73.6%	5.5	5.1	1.9	0.9	18.2	6.4
1993	28–29	LAC	80	77	37.1	45.1%	28.0%	76.9%	5.3	4.5	2.2	0.9	18.0	7.3
1994	29–30	LAC	75	75	38.1	42.6%	30.1%	71.5%	6.1	4.6	1.9	0.7	20.1	4.7
1995	30–31	CHI	77	53	19.9	42.6%	28.2%	61.8%	2.3	2.0	1.3	0.4	6.9	1.1
1996	31–32	CHI	80	80	23.6	46.7%	26.9%	70.5%	2.7	2.6	1.3	0.4	7.4	3.6
1997	32–33	CHI	76	74	22.9	43.6%	36.2%	70.7%	2.5	2.5	1.1	0.5	6.3	2.5
1998	33–34	CHI	82	82	27.9	44.1%	19.0%	75.0%	3.5	2.9	1.3	0.6	9.3	4.4
1999	34–35	CHI	35	35	31.6	37.7%	31.8%	70.3%	5.1	3.3	1.7	1.0	11.2	1.5
2000	35–36	LAL	80	78	25.5	39.9%	31.1%	68.0%	4.2	3.4	1.1	0.5	7.0	2.8
2001	36–37	LAL	47	46	24.2	46.9%	26.4%	70.8%	3.5	2.4	0.5	0.5	6.5	1.8