PGNew JerseyNBA🌅 Early Bloomer · 1986

Vern Fleming

6'5" · 185 lbsBorn February 4, 19621985–1996College: Georgia

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

13.3

1986, 1987, 1988 avg

Career VAL

112.5

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

20.9

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

35% in peak 3y

Intelligence

How often Vern Fleming 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 1986, 12 rated seasons.

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Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1985	22–23	IND	80	65	31.1	47.0%	0.0%	76.7%	4.0	3.1	1.2	0.1	14.1	10.2
1986	23–24	IND	80	77	35.9	50.6%	16.7%	74.5%	4.8	6.3	1.6	0.1	14.2	13.5
1987	24–25	IND	82	82	31.1	50.9%	20.0%	78.8%	4.1	5.8	1.3	0.2	12.0	12.8
1988	25–26	IND	80	80	34.2	52.3%	0.0%	80.2%	4.6	7.1	1.4	0.1	13.9	13.5
1989	26–27	IND	76	69	33.6	51.5%	13.0%	79.9%	4.1	6.5	1.0	0.2	14.3	11.3
1990	27–28	IND	82	82	35.1	50.8%	35.3%	78.2%	3.9	7.4	1.1	0.1	14.3	12.3
1991	28–29	IND	69	45	28.0	53.1%	22.2%	72.9%	3.1	5.3	1.1	0.2	12.7	9.4
1992	29–30	IND	82	6	21.2	48.2%	22.2%	73.7%	2.5	3.2	0.7	0.1	8.9	7.7
1993	30–31	IND	75	8	20.0	50.5%	19.4%	72.6%	2.3	3.0	0.8	0.1	9.5	7.6
1994	31–32	IND	55	5	19.1	46.2%	0.0%	73.6%	2.2	3.1	0.7	0.1	6.5	4.7
1995	32–33	IND	55	1	12.5	49.5%	0.0%	72.2%	1.6	2.0	0.5	0.0	4.6	3
1996	33–34	NJ	77	3	22.7	43.3%	10.7%	75.1%	2.2	3.3	0.5	0.1	7.7	6.5

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 92.1th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

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#2 · Indiana Pacers103.1 legacy · 92% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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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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