Steve Alford played 4 seasons (1988–1991) for DAL and GS. Shooting Star career, peaking in 1989.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
4 seasons · peak 0.7 in 1989
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Indiana | 31 | 27 | 38.0 | 59.2% | — | 91.3% | 2.6 | 3.2 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 15.5 |
| 1985 | Indiana | 32 | 31 | 36.0 | 53.8% | — | 92.1% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 39.4th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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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
Rate Steve Alford — All-Time
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.
0.4 career wins over 4 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1989 · +0.4 wins
Latest season · 1991 · −0.1 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 Steve Alford 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
Shooting Star
One or two seasons that define the entire career — brief but incandescent. Peak 1989, 4 rated seasons.
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| 3.2 |
| 2.7 |
| 1.4 |
| 0.0 |
| 18.1 |
| 1986 | Indiana | 28 | 28 | 37.0 | 55.6% | — | 87.1% | 2.7 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | Indiana | 34 | 34 | 37.0 | 47.4% | 53.0% | 88.9% | 2.6 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 22.0 |