Sonny Parker

6'6" · 200 lbsBorn March 22, 19551977–1982College: Mineral Area, Texas A&M

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

12.9

1978, 1979, 1980 avg

Career VAL

56.8

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

4.9

postseason

Career Shape

Comet

68% in peak 3y

Intelligence

How often Sonny Parker 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

Late Developer

Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 1980, 6 rated seasons.

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Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1977	21–22	GS	65	—	13.7	52.7%	—	77.2%	2.7	0.9	0.8	0.4	5.8	6.4
1978	22–23	GS	82	—	25.2	51.9%	—	70.5%	4.7	1.9	1.6	0.4	11.4	11.1
1979	23–24	GS	79	—	36.6	50.2%	—	78.8%	5.6	3.7	1.8	0.4	15.2	13.4
1980	24–25	GS	82	82	34.7	48.9%	0.0%	78.5%	5.7	3.1	2.1	0.4	14.7	14.3
1981	25–26	GS	73	—	18.0	49.2%	—	73.4%	2.7	1.5	0.9	0.2	6.5	6.4
1982	26–27	GS	71	0	12.7	47.3%	—	66.7%	2.5	1.3	0.5	0.2	3.9	5.2

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 76.6th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Boards that rank NBA careers

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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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