The purpose is to give the teams a chance to add talent to their rosters in the form of college talents, international prospects and sometimes even high school phenoms. While each and every draft is important, some are inherently more important than others. Some may just have brought a superstar into the league. Others could have launched a dynasty. Others still could have implemented a big rule change that had significant ramifications on future drafts.
This was the draft in which the St. Louis Hawks selected Bill Russell at No. The Celtics also added K. Jones and Tommy Heinsohn during that draft, effectively launching the greatest dynasty in the history of professional sports. This was the first draft that didn't utilize territorial selections at the beginning of the draft.
Instead a coin flip between the worst teams in the league determined the No. G Effective Field Goal Percentage This statistic adjusts for the fact that a 3-point field goal is worth one more point than a 2-point field goal. Player Efficiency Rating A measure of per-minute production standardized such that the league average is Win Shares An estimate of the number of wins contributed by a player. Game-by-game stat line for the player Career Playoffs.
Player stats broken down into various categories; i. Per Game Bold indicates league leader. Regular Season. Only on regular season tables. Can you name who had the 2nd-most such seasons? Subscribe to Stathead , the set of tools used by the pros, to unearth this and other interesting factoids.
Become a Stathead. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. Choice is:. Powered by. Totals Bold indicates league leader. Nonetheless, we can present Triple-Doubles since when rebounds became an official statistic. A small number may yet be unaccounted for but we're confident in the completeness of the list.
Advanced Bold indicates league leader. Multiply by 2. Five teams passed on Larry Bird before the Celtics, believing that they could get him to sign, took him at number six, changing the course of the game forever. But what about those five players drafted before him? Robey played just 43 games for Indiana before being traded to the Celtics in The Celtics got Dennis Johnson in return.
In eight seasons in the NBA, Robey averaged 7. Ford actually won Rookie of the Year honors in , averaging His scoring average went up in each of the following two seasons, but his numbers began to decline during the season, his final year in Kansas City. Ford played for the Nets, Bucks, and Rockets in the final three years of his career and retired in In seven seasons, the former All-American averaged Shifting between point guard and shooting guard, he averaged
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