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Avery Johnson

Avery Johnson stats, teams and career impact

#1030 all-timeCareer averages · 8.4 PPG · 1.7 RPG · 5.5 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Position: Point guard
Final NBA team: Golden State Warriors
Height / weight: 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) · 175 lb (79 kg)
Born: March 25, 1965 (61 yrs old)
College: Cameron University, Southern University and A&M College
NBA seasons: 16 seasons · 1988–89 to 2003–04

Career or season view

Career summaryAvery Johnson was a point guard who played 16 NBA seasons, from 1988–89 through 2003–04.

Career PPG: 8.4
Career RPG: 1.7
Career APG: 5.5; #80 in 1995–96; #1030 all-time

Peak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Career overview

Why Avery Johnson ranks #1030 all time

Avery Johnson ranks #1030 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #86.0. His full-career value ranks #530, so longevity is a major reason he lands this high.

Peak#80 in 1995–96

Best league finish

Sustained excellence14 ranked seasons

450+ minutes required per season

Career breadth16 seasons

1,054 games · Career Value Rank #530

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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources

Full team history

Teams: Seattle SuperSonics, Denver Nuggets, San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors, and Dallas Mavericks
Greatest Mavericks →Greatest Nuggets →Greatest Warriors →Greatest Rockets →Greatest Spurs →Greatest Thunder →

Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 47.9%FG%
Three-point: 14.5%3P%
Free throw: 70.6%FT%

1,054 career games · 26,615 minutes

Sources and updateConventional stats and measurements: Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 13, 2026. hussEyquation ranking data through 2025–26. Life dates: Wikidata; conflicting dates checked against Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 17, 2026.

Traditional box score

Avery Johnson stats by season

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Box impact is an estimate in points per 100 possessions, not the 0–100 Impact Rate score. Zero is league average; higher is better. Rate rank is a league place: No. 1 is best.

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				pts/100 · higher is better
2003–04	4.6	0.7	2.4	-3.13	GSW	46	1	13.8	40.2%	0.0%	66.7%	#285	-13.5
2002–03	3.3	0.6	1.3	-3.58	DAL	48	0	9.0	42.0%	0.0%	76.9%	—	-13.1
2001–02	7.9	1.0	4.2	+0.59	DAL/DEN	68	13	19.9	47.9%	0.0%	74.2%	#97	66.1
2000–01	5.6	1.5	4.3	-2.35	SAS	55	20	23.5	44.7%	16.7%	68.3%	#239	-8.4
1999–00	11.2	1.9	6.0	-0.44	SAS	82	82	31.4	47.3%	11.1%	73.5%	#160	76.1
1998–99	9.7	2.4	7.4	-0.43	SAS	50	50	33.4	47.3%	8.3%	56.8%	#144	48.3
1997–98	10.2	2.0	7.9	-0.13	SAS	75	73	35.7	47.8%	15.4%	72.6%	#131	92.0
1996–97	10.5	1.9	6.8	-0.18	SAS	76	76	32.5	47.7%	23.1%	69.0%	#130	81.9
1995–96	13.1	2.5	9.6	+1.13	SAS	82	82	37.6	49.4%	19.4%	72.1%	#80	187.5
1994–95	13.4	2.5	8.2	+0.19	SAS	82	82	36.7	51.9%	13.6%	68.5%	#115	130.1
1993–94	10.9	2.1	5.3	-1.19	GSW	82	70	28.4	49.2%	0.0%	70.4%	#169	39.2
1992–93	8.7	1.9	7.5	+0.81	SAS	75	49	27.1	50.2%	0.0%	79.1%	#81	113.2
1991–92	5.6	1.2	3.9	-1.39	HOU/SAS	69	15	17.9	47.9%	26.7%	65.3%	#172	15.1
1990–91	4.7	1.1	3.4	-0.18	DEN/SAS	68	14	14.1	46.9%	11.1%	67.8%	#125	37.0
1989–90	2.6	0.8	3.1	-1.91	SEA	53	10	10.8	38.7%	25.0%	72.5%	#197	1.0
1988–89	1.6	0.6	1.7	-2.37	SEA	43	0	6.8	34.9%	11.1%	56.3%	—	-2.2
Career	8.4	1.7	5.5	—	DAL/DEN/GSW/HOU/SAS/SEA	1054	—	25.3	47.9%	14.5%	70.6%	—	—

Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.

What these measures mean

Box impact: Estimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average, from the historical box-score model. Zero is league average; higher is better. Historical defense estimates are included where labeled. This is not the live model's lineup-adjusted estimate.
Impact Rate: A 0–100 score comparing performance within one season. Higher is better. This is a score, not points per possession.
Impact estimate: The season model's final estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, before conversion to the 0–100 Impact Rate score. It includes lineup evidence where available. Zero is league average; higher is better.
Impact Rate rank: The player's place among qualified players in that season's Impact Rate ranking. No. 1 is best. This is a rank, not an impact score.
Value contribution / Season Value: Completed seasons use a fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. The live season instead uses Season Value, combining that season's impact with workload.
Career Impact Rank: An all-time rank weighted toward the player's best three, five, and ten seasons.

Career Impact Rank#1030

97.5 composite · lower is better

Best 5#1060

99.6 average league finish

Career Value Rank#530

850 total value

Impact Rate: 0–100 score within one season. Higher is better.
Box impact: Estimated points per 100 possessions above league average, from the historical model. Zero is average; higher is better.

Career standing

How Avery Johnson ranks all time

These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.

Number-one seasons0

Best in the league

Top-five seasons0

Elite finishes

Top-ten seasons0

Upper-tier finishes

Top-10 Impact Margin0.0

Tie-breaker across top-ten seasons

Career Composite Score97.5

Best 3, Best 5, and Best 10 average league finishes receive 50%, 30%, and 20% window weights. Missing seasons receive a replacement finish just below the player's typical qualified field. Lower is better.

Best 3 effective weight: 74%
Missing-season finish: 314.5
Qualified seasons: 14
All-time rank: #1030

Strongest seasons

Every season

Avery Johnson advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

More advanced statsAge, minutes, impact, rank, value and data coverage

					pts/100 · higher is better	0–100 · higher is better
2003–04Historical Defense Estimate	GSW	38	46	637	-3.13	14.2	#285	-13.5	18th	Standard
2002–03Historical Defense Estimate	DAL	37	48	430	-3.58	—	—	-13.1	—	Limited
2001–02Historical Defense Estimate	DAL/DEN	36	68	1,352	+0.59	70.3	#97	66.1	60th	Broad
2000–01Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	35	55	1,290	-2.35	27.2	#239	-8.4	27th	Broad
1999–00Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	34	82	2,571	-0.44	50.3	#160	76.1	63rd	Broad
1998–99Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	33	50	1,672	-0.43	48.2	#144	48.3	57th	Broad
1997–98Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	32	75	2,674	-0.13	59.0	#131	92.0	70th	Broad
1996–97Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	31	76	2,472	-0.18	59.2	#130	81.9	66th	Broad
1995–96Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	30	82	3,084	+1.13	75.7	#80	187.5	86th	Broad
1994–95Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	29	82	3,011	+0.19	63.1	#115	130.1	77th	Broad
1993–94Historical Defense Estimate	GSW	28	82	2,332	-1.19	42.3	#169	39.2	49th	Broad
1992–93Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	27	75	2,030	+0.81	72.9	#81	113.2	73rd	Broad
1991–92Historical Defense Estimate	HOU/SAS	26	69	1,235	-1.39	40.8	#172	15.1	40th	Broad
1990–91Historical Defense Estimate	DEN/SAS	25	68	959	-0.18	57.4	#125	37.0	49th	Standard
1989–90Historical Defense Estimate	SEA	24	53	575	-1.91	31.7	#197	1.0	31st	Standard
1988–89Historical Defense Estimate	SEA	23	43	291	-2.37	—	—	-2.2	—	Limited

Career movement

Avery Johnson's box impact by season

Peak box impact +1.13 points per 100 possessions in 1995–96 · 16 seasons · 26,615 minutes

Box impact estimates points per 100 possessions above each season's league average. Zero is average; higher is better. Rank labels show Impact Rate league places, not ranks on this chart's box-impact scale.

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Career comparison

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Box impactEra-adjusted points per 100 possessions above league average · higher is better · dashed marker means the player did not play

Avery Johnson and Lindsey Hunter era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Avery Johnson	Lindsey Hunter
1	-2.4	-1.9
2	-1.9	-2.4
3	-0.2	-0.6
4	-1.4	-0.3
5	0.8	-0.6
6	-1.2	0.5
7	0.2	-0.1
8	1.1	0.9
9	-0.2	-1.7
10	-0.1	-2.3
11	-0.4	-0.4
12	-0.4	-0.8
13	-2.3	-1.6
14	0.6	0.5
15	-3.6	-4.6
16	-3.1	-3.8
17	Did not play	-10.3

NBA season number

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How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played; completed player-profile rows instead show each season's fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. Career Impact Rank rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →