SFMILNBA⭐ Shooting Star · 2012

Steve Novak

6'10" · 225 lbsBorn June 13, 19832007–2017College: MarquetteDraft: 2006 · Rd 2, Pick 32 · 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

1.9

2008, 2009, 2012 avg

Career VAL

8.0

Value Above League

Games

444

Points

2,174

Rebounds

591

Assists

132

Win Shares

14.5

Playoff VAL

6.8

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2003	Marquette	33	0	15.5	50.4%	50.5%	93.9%	2.2	0.5	0.2	0.0	6.7
2004	Marquette	31	29	29.5	40.7%	43.0%	91.2%

International Stats

International Per Game — D-League

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2008	Rio Grande	9	7	39.3	46.8%	45.0%	90.9%	7.3	1.8	0.3	0.4	18.3
2011	Reno	2	0	29.0	68.4%	64.3%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 63.5th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

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)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's Doorstep NBA Journeymen NBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading Seasons NBA Loyalty NBA Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity

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
2007	23–24	HOU	30	6.3	1.7	0.9	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.1	36.0%	33.3%	100.0%	0.01
2008	24–25	HOU	33	8.0	4.1	1.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	48.0%	47.9%	75.0%	0.03
2009	25–26	LAC	68	17.0	7.2	1.8	0.6	0.3	0.1	0.3	44.4%	41.6%	91.3%	0.01
2010	26–27	LAC	43	8.5	2.6	0.8	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	38.3%	30.0%	77.8%	0.00
2011	27–28	All teams	29	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.03
2012	28–29	NY	53	19.2	9.0	2.0	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.4	47.9%	47.2%	84.6%	0.07
2013	29–30	NY	81	20.3	6.6	1.9	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.1	41.4%	42.5%	90.9%	0.01
2014	30–31	TOR	54	10.0	3.3	1.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	41.1%	42.6%	100.0%	0.01
2015	31–32	All teams	35	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.00
2016	32–33	All teams	10	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2017	33–34	MIL	8	3.0	0.6	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	28.6%	16.7%	—	—