Career atlas

Magic Johnson: 13 seasons, 1 teams, 1 competitions

From 1979-80 to 1995-96

Confidence: highData through: 1979-80 → 1995-96

The question

How did Magic Johnson evolve?

The evidence

When it really changed

23.9 points per gamecompared against: 18.8 points per game (+5.1 · +27 %) · Magic Johnson in 1985-86

The stints

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

LAL1979-80 → 1995-96
NBA · 13 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.

1986-87+5.1 points per game versus the previous season
NBA · LAL
Before
1985-86 · LAL · 18.8 points per game
After
1986-87 · LAL · 23.9 points per game
Context
NBA · LAL
1987-88-4.3 points per game versus the previous season
NBA · LAL
Before
1986-87 · LAL · 23.9 points per game
After
1987-88 · LAL · 19.6 points per game
Context
NBA · LAL
1995-96-4.8 points per game versus the previous season
NBA · LAL
Before
1990-91 · LAL · 19.4 points per game
After
1995-96 · LAL · 14.6 points per game
Context
NBA · LAL

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.

1979-8018.0 points per game
NBA · LAL · 77 games
1980-8121.6 points per game
NBA · LAL · 37 games
1981-8218.6 points per game
NBA · LAL · 78 games
1982-8316.8 points per game
NBA · LAL · 79 games
1983-8417.6 points per game
NBA · LAL · 67 games
1984-8518.3 points per game
NBA · LAL · 77 games
1985-8618.8 points per game
NBA · LAL · 72 games
1986-8723.9 points per game
NBA · LAL · 80 games
1987-8819.6 points per game
NBA · LAL · 72 games
1988-8922.5 points per game
NBA · LAL · 77 games
1989-9022.3 points per game
NBA · LAL · 79 games
1990-9119.4 points per game
NBA · LAL · 79 games
1995-9614.6 points per game
NBA · LAL · 32 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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