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1981 NBA Season

Best Players by VAL

  1. 1Kareem Abdul-JabbarC18.8
  2. 2Moses MaloneC18.5
  3. 3Julius ErvingF18.2
  4. 4George GervinG17.9
  5. 5Larry BirdF17.3
  6. 6Micheal Ray RichardsonG17.3
  7. 7Artis GilmoreC17
  8. 8Robert ReidG16.5
  9. 9Robert ParishC15.6
  10. 10Alex EnglishF15.4
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Arrivals & Departures

Debuts (by career VAL)

  1. 1Kevin McHalePF150.1
  2. 2Bill LaimbeerC/PF148.3
  3. 3Rick MahornPF/C115.9
  4. 4James DonaldsonC110.3
  5. 5Darrell GriffithSG105.9
  6. 6Larry SmithPF102
  7. 7Mike GminskiC89.9
  8. 8Joe Barry CarrollC88.4

Final season in the corpus

  1. 1Sidney WicksPF124.6
  2. 2Rudy TomjanovichPF110.5
  3. 3Jo Jo WhitePG106.7
  4. 4Ron BooneSG101.4
  5. 5Clifford RayC/PF95.8
  6. 6Phil ChenierSG77
  7. 7Gar HeardPF75.5
  8. 8Austin CarrSG69.6