Sean Elliott played 12 seasons (1990–2001) for SA and DET. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1992.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
12 seasons · peak 7.1 in 1992
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Arizona | 32 | — | 33.7 | 48.6% | — | 74.9% | 5.3 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 15.6 |
| 1987 | Arizona | 30 | — | 34.9 | 51.0% | 37.1% | 77.0% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 85.6th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNBA JourneymenNBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNBA LoyaltyNBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
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.
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.
Fan Rating
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VAL (Value Above League) measures each NBA season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
22.3 career wins over 12 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1992 · +4.1 wins
Latest season · 2001 · +0.4 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NBA player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Sean Elliott led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1992, 12 rated seasons.
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| 6.0 |
| 3.7 |
| 0.7 |
| 0.2 |
| 19.3 |
| 1988 | Arizona | 38 | — | 32.9 | 57.0% | 47.1% | 79.3% | 5.8 | 3.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 19.6 |
| 1989 | Arizona | 33 | — | 34.1 | 48.0% | 50.4% | 84.1% | 7.2 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 22.3 |