The three dashboards below compare a selection of 278 NBA/ABA greats across three categories of metrics (offensive, defense, and other) over the course of their careers. The x-axis reflects each player’s career by season (e.g., rookie year is season ‘1’, etc.). All data sourced from http://www.basketball-reference.com/.
Offensive Metrics
Defensive Metrics
Other Metrics
Note: ‘Cumulative Points’ are calculated as the cumulative sum of ‘points per game’ x ‘games played’ across each players’ career. While this figure is very close to each player’s actual total career points, it may not be exact.
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