Tony Smith played 9 seasons (1991–2001) for LAL, MIA, PHX and 3 other clubs. Standard career, peaking in 1994.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
7 seasons · peak 0.9 in 1994
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Marquette | 29 | 24 | 24.9 | 53.4% | 33.3% | 75.3% | 3.3 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | Marquette | 28 | — | 31.9 | 52.3% | 36.8% | 73.9% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 50.4th 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 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
Rate Tony Smith — 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.
1.5 career wins over 7 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1994 · +0.5 wins
Latest season · 1997 · +0.3 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 Tony Smith 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
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 1994, 7 rated seasons.
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| 4.5 |
| 2.9 |
| 1.9 |
| 0.6 |
| 13.1 |
| 1989 | Marquette | 28 | 28 | 32.4 | 55.6% | 66.7% | 73.0% | 3.9 | 5.6 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 14.2 |
| 1990 | Marquette | 29 | — | 39.0 | 49.5% | 41.4% | 85.6% | 4.7 | 5.8 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 23.8 |
Wore 6 distinct franchise crests across 11 seasons (1991–2001) — a true nomad. The crest trail: