PFLACNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 2000

Ruben Patterson

6'5" · 223 lbsBorn July 31, 19751999–2008College: Independence CC, CincinnatiDraft: 1998 · Rd 2, Pick 31 · Los Angeles LakersESPN ↗

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

6.8

2000, 2001, 2002 avg

Career VAL

39.3

Value Above League

Games

468

Points

4,958

Rebounds

1,851

Assists

861

Win Shares

24.2

Playoff VAL

6.8

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1997	Cincinnati	31	26	23.3	54.8%	28.2%	60.4%	5.6	1.4	1.1	0.3	13.7
1998	Cincinnati	19	14	27.9	47.2%	26.9%	60.2%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 86.0th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#92Breakout seasons· 2000of 150

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)

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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Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
1999	23	LAL	24	6.0	2.7	1.3	0.1	0.2	0.1	—	41.2%	16.7%	71.0%	0.00
2000	24	SEA	81	25.9	11.6	5.4	1.6	1.2	0.5	—	53.6%	44.4%	69.2%	0.09
2001	25	SEA	76	27.1	13.0	5.0	2.1	1.4	0.6	—	49.4%	5.6%	68.1%	0.09
2002	26	POR	75	23.5	11.2	4.0	1.4	1.1	0.5	1.5	51.5%	25.0%	70.1%	0.08
2003	27	POR	78	21.2	8.3	3.4	1.3	0.9	0.4	1.5	49.2%	15.0%	62.7%	0.04
2004	28	POR	73	22.6	6.9	3.7	1.9	1.2	0.3	1.4	50.6%	16.7%	55.3%	0.03
2005	29	POR	70	28.0	11.6	3.9	2.0	1.5	0.3	2.0	53.1%	8.0%	59.9%	0.06
2006	30	All teams	71	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.04
2007	31	MIL	81	31.0	14.7	5.4	2.9	1.4	0.3	2.5	54.8%	15.8%	64.1%	0.07
2008	32	LAC	20	16.2	5.1	3.2	0.9	1.1	0.4	1.4	45.3%	0.0%	55.8%	0.01