Tim Hardaway played 13 seasons (1990–2003) for GS, MIA, DAL and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 701 points, 139 rebounds and 302 assists. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1991. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2022.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 1986 | UTEP | 28 | — | 15.5 | 52.1% | — | 65.1% | 1.3 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 4.1 |
| 1987 | UTEP | 31 | 30 | 29.7 | 49.0% | 25.0% | 66.3% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 97.4th 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 Terms
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 Tim Hardaway — All-Time
12 seasons · peak 15.9 in 1991
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.
62.1 career wins over 12 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1991 · +9.2 wins
Latest season · 2002 · +1.2 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 Tim Hardaway 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 1991, 12 rated seasons.
Includes verified pre-2002 NBA per-game rows in the main Per Game table; totals and advanced rows remain limited to their exact source coverage.
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| 1988 | UTEP | 32 | 29 | 32.4 | 44.9% | 34.0% | 75.4% | 2.9 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | UTEP | 33 | 33 | 35.8 | 50.1% | 36.6% | 74.1% | 4.0 | 5.4 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 22.0 |
Wore 5 distinct franchise crests across 14 seasons (1990–2003) — a true nomad. The crest trail: