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Walt Bellamy

6'10" · 225 lbsBorn July 24, 19391962–1975College: IndianaDraft: 1961 · Rd 1, Pick 1 · Chicago Packers

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

15.9

1962, 1963, 1965 avg

Career VAL

126.3

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

47.9

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

38% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

13 seasons · peak 17.2 in 1962

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 98.1th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#4 · Washington Wizards43.5 legacy · 31% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 1 board

#71Career VALof 3764

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)

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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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	VAL
1962	22	WSH	79	—	42.3	51.9%	—	64.4%	19.0	2.7	—	—	31.6	17.2
1963	23	WSH	80	—	41.3	52.7%	—	67.4%	16.4	2.9	—	—	27.9	16.3
1964	24	BAL	80	—	42.4	51.3%	—	65.1%	17.0	1.6	—	—	27.0	14
1965	25	BAL	80	—	41.3	50.9%	—	68.5%	14.6	2.4	—	—	24.8	14.2
1966	26	All teams	80	72	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	11.1
1967	27	NY	79	78	38.1	52.1%	—	63.6%	13.5	2.6	—	—	19.0	9.7
1968	28	NY	82	64	32.9	54.1%	—	66.2%	11.7	2.0	—	—	16.7	9.3
1969	29	All teams	88	62	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	8
1970	30	All teams	79	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.8
1971	31	ATL	82	—	35.5	49.3%	—	60.4%	12.9	2.8	—	—	14.7	5.6
1972	32	ATL	82	—	38.9	54.5%	—	58.5%	12.8	3.2	—	—	18.6	10.1
1973	33	ATL	74	—	37.9	50.5%	—	53.8%	13.0	2.4	—	—	16.1	4.5
1974	34	ATL	77	—	31.7	48.6%	—	60.8%	9.6	2.5	0.7	0.6	13.1	2.5
1975	35	NOJ	1	—	14.0	100.0%	—	100.0%	5.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	6.0	—