Career atlas

Bob Lanier: 14 seasons, 2 teams, 1 competitions

From 1970-71 to 1983-84

Confidence: highData through: 1970-71 → 1983-84

The question

How did Bob Lanier evolve?

The evidence

When it really changed

25.7 points per gamecompared against: 15.6 points per game (+10.1 · +65 %) · Bob Lanier in 1970-71

The stints

One row per stint: league, team and years. Chronological order; when two overlap, the origin comes first.

DET1970-71 → 1978-79
NBA · 9 seasons
DET → MIL1979-80
NBA · 1 season
MIL1980-81 → 1983-84
NBA · 4 seasons

When it really changed

Not every season is a change. Only jumps above the threshold declared below appear here. «Changed» means a jump larger than 4.1 points per game. It is a declared threshold, not a model.

1971-72+10.1 points per game versus the previous season
NBA · DET
Before
1970-71 · DET · 15.6 points per game
After
1971-72 · DET · 25.7 points per game
Context
NBA · DET
1979-80Team change: from DET to MIL
NBA · DET → MIL
Before
1978-79 · DET · 23.6 points per game
After
1979-80 · DET → MIL · 19.2 points per game
The measure
-4.4 points per game versus the previous season
Context
NBA · DET → MIL
1980-81-4.9 points per game versus the previous season
NBA · MIL
Before
1979-80 · DET/MIL · 19.2 points per game
After
1980-81 · MIL · 14.3 points per game
Context
NBA · MIL

Production, season by season

An ACB point and an NBA point are not the same unit. The line puts seasons side by side; it does not make them equal.

1970-7115.6 points per game
NBA · DET · 82 games
1971-7225.7 points per game
NBA · DET · 80 games
1972-7323.8 points per game
NBA · DET · 81 games
1973-7422.5 points per game
NBA · DET · 81 games
1974-7524.0 points per game
NBA · DET · 76 games
1975-7621.3 points per game
NBA · DET · 64 games
1976-7725.3 points per game
NBA · DET · 64 games
1977-7824.5 points per game
NBA · DET · 63 games
1978-7923.6 points per game
NBA · DET · 53 games
1979-8019.2 points per game
NBA · DET → MIL · 63 games
1980-8114.3 points per game
NBA · MIL · 67 games
1981-8213.5 points per game
NBA · MIL · 74 games
1982-8310.7 points per game
NBA · MIL · 39 games
1983-8413.6 points per game
NBA · MIL · 72 games

FactDerivedAssumption

What this does not prove

An ACB point and an NBA point are not the same unit. The line puts seasons side by side; it does not make them equal.
«Changed» means a jump larger than 4.1 points per game. It is a declared threshold, not a model.
Role is read from minutes and production. We do not have a declared position for every European season.

From here

Professional DNA

What kind of player he is at the end of that road

What if…?

What happened to his team when he did not play

Where it comes from

Source

not stated

Model input

not stated

Computation

not stated

This answer

2026-10-12

Where this comes from

Season averages · closed season · its clock is the seasonSeasons outside the NBA · closed season · its clock is the season

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