PGLACNBA📈 Late Developer · 2004

Sam Cassell

6'3" · 185 lbsBorn November 18, 19691994–2008College: San Jacinto, Florida StateDraft: 1993 · Rd 1, Pick 24 · Houston RocketsESPN ↗

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

16.5

2000, 2001, 2004 avg

Career VAL

126.9

Value Above League

Games

482

Points

8,074

Rebounds

1,672

Assists

2,811

Win Shares

48.3

Playoff VAL

30.3

postseason

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

36thall-timeCareer APG5.8partial

Cross-sport prominence: 98.2th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

A standing above rests on a career total that predates the corpus, so the true figure is higher than shown.

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#69Career VALof 3764

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.

sportsdataverse (hoopR) — CC-BY 4.0 — attribution required
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
1994	23–24	HOU	66	17.0	6.7	2.0	2.9	0.9	0.1	—	41.8%	29.5%	84.1%	0.03
1995	24–25	HOU	82	23.0	9.5	2.6	4.9	1.1	0.2	—	42.7%	33.0%	84.3%	0.07
1996	25–26	HOU	61	27.6	14.5	3.1	4.6	0.9	0.1	—	43.9%	34.8%	82.5%	0.07
1997	26–27	All teams	61	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.09
1998	27–28	NJ	75	34.7	19.6	3.0	8.0	1.6	0.3	—	44.1%	18.8%	86.0%	0.17
1999	28–29	All teams	8	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2000	29–30	MIL	81	35.8	18.6	3.7	9.0	1.3	0.1	—	46.6%	28.9%	87.6%	0.21
2001	30–31	MIL	76	35.6	18.2	3.9	7.6	1.2	0.1	—	47.4%	30.6%	85.8%	0.20
2002	31–32	MIL	74	35.2	19.7	4.2	6.7	1.2	0.2	2.4	46.3%	34.8%	86.0%	0.15
2003	32–33	MIL	78	34.6	19.7	4.4	5.8	1.1	0.2	2.3	47.0%	36.2%	86.1%	0.14
2004	33–34	MIN	81	35.0	19.8	3.3	7.3	1.3	0.2	2.7	48.8%	39.8%	87.3%	0.22
2005	34–35	MIN	59	25.8	13.5	2.7	5.1	0.6	0.2	1.8	46.4%	26.2%	86.5%	0.10
2006	35–36	LAC	78	34.0	17.2	3.7	6.3	0.9	0.1	2.2	44.3%	36.8%	86.3%	0.16
2007	36–37	LAC	58	24.3	12.3	2.9	4.7	0.5	0.1	1.7	41.8%	29.4%	87.9%	0.08
2008	37–38	All teams	54	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.06

Sam Cassell

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

All-time standings

On the boards· Appears on 1 board

Boards that rank NBA careers

Similar careers

Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

Cross-Sport Career Standing

Career Geography