PGClevelandNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 1987 🌅 Early Bloomer · 1970

Walt Frazier

6'4" · 200 lbsBorn March 29, 19451968–1980College: Southern IllinoisDraft: 1967 · Rd 1, Pick 5 · New York Knicks

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

14.1

1970, 1972, 1975 avg

Career VAL

121.8

Value Above League

Playoff VAL

94.0

postseason

Career Shape

Compiler

35% in peak 3y

Career arc · VAL by season

11 seasons · peak 14.2 in 1970

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

Cross-sport prominence: 98.0th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#2 · New York Knicks124.0 legacy · 91% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 3 boards

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

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
1968	22–23	NY	74	—	21.5	45.1%	—	65.5%	4.2	4.1	—	—	9.0	3.7
1969	23–24	NY	80	—	36.9	50.5%	—	74.6%	6.2	7.9	—	—	17.5	13.5
1970	24–25	NY	77	—	39.5	51.8%	—	74.8%	6.0	8.2	—	—	20.9	14.2
1971	25–26	NY	80	—	43.2	49.4%	—	77.9%	6.8	6.7	—	—	21.7	13.2
1972	26–27	NY	77	—	40.6	51.2%	—	80.8%	6.7	5.8	—	—	23.2	14.2
1973	27–28	NY	78	—	40.8	49.0%	—	81.7%	7.3	5.9	—	—	21.1	12
1974	28–29	NY	80	—	41.7	47.2%	—	83.8%	6.7	6.9	2.0	0.2	20.5	12.6
1975	29–30	NY	78	—	41.1	48.3%	—	82.8%	6.0	6.1	2.4	0.2	21.5	13.8
1976	30–31	NY	59	—	41.1	48.5%	—	82.3%	6.8	5.9	1.8	0.2	19.1	9.4
1977	31–32	NY	76	—	35.4	48.9%	—	77.1%	3.9	5.3	1.7	0.1	17.4	10.1
1978	32–33	CLE	51	—	32.6	47.1%	—	85.0%	4.1	4.1	1.5	0.3	16.2	5.1
1979	33–34	CLE	12	—	23.3	44.3%	—	77.8%	1.7	2.7	1.1	0.2	10.8	—
1980	34–35	CLE	3	—	9.0	36.4%	0.0%	100.0%	1.0	2.7	0.7	0.3	3.3	—