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Harry Gallatin

Harry Gallatin stats, teams and career impact

#74 all-timeCareer averages · 13.5 PPG · 11.9 RPG · 1.9 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Position: Power forward
Final NBA team: Detroit Pistons
Height / weight: 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) · 210 lb (95 kg)
Born: April 26, 1927
Died: October 7, 2015 (88 yrs old)
College: Truman State University
NBA career: 1948–49 to 1957–58

Career or season view

Career summaryHarry Gallatin was a power forward whose NBA career ran from 1948–49 through 1957–58. hussEyquation season data begins in 1950–51.

Career PPG: 13.5
Career RPG: 11.9
Career APG: 1.9; #6 in 1950–51; #74 all-time

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

Career overview

How Harry Gallatin ranks in the available record

Harry Gallatin's covered seasons produce an all-time rank of #74. hussEyquation's season record begins in 1950–51, so this is not a complete-career verdict.

Peak#6 in 1950–51

Best league finish

Sustained excellence4 top-ten finishes

450+ minutes required per season

Career breadth1948–49 to 1957–58

562 games · Coverage begins in 1950–51

NBA honors7× All-Star · 2× All-NBAContext only; honors are not model inputs.

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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources

Full team history

Teams: New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons
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Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 40.4%FG%
Three-point: —3P%
Free throw: 77.8%FT%

562 career games · 18,183 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

Harry Gallatin stats by season

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1957–58	14.9	10.4	1.2	+0.48	DET	72	0	27.6	37.9%	—	78.7%	#24	122.0
1956–57	15.0	10.1	1.2	+1.17	NYK	72	0	27.0	40.6%	—	80.0%	#17	141.9
1955–56	13.9	10.3	2.3	+1.17	NYK	72	0	33.0	38.6%	—	78.7%	#17	167.0
1954–55	14.6	13.8	2.4	+1.92	NYK	72	0	35.4	38.4%	—	81.4%	#7	212.0
1953–54	13.2	15.3	2.1	+2.42	NYK	72	0	37.4	40.4%	—	78.4%	#7	216.3
1952–53	12.4	13.1	1.8	+2.44	NYK	70	0	33.3	44.4%	—	70.0%	#9	201.1
1951–52	11.2	10.0	1.7	+1.76	NYK	66	0	29.3	44.2%	—	80.6%	#13	143.6
1950–51	12.8	12.1	2.7	+3.20	NYK	66	0	35.9	41.6%	—	73.2%	#6	243.2
Career	13.5	11.9	1.9	—	DET/NYK	562	—	32.4	40.4%	—	77.8%	—	—

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

Film evidence

Harry Gallatin highlights

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Archive remembrance

Remembering Harry Gallatin

The league's remembrance provides rare footage and context for Gallatin's rebounding, durability and frontcourt work in the NBA's first decade.

What these measures mean

Era-centered box impact: Estimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average.
Impact Rate Rank: The player's place among qualified players in one season.
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#74

11.2 composite · lower is better

Best 5#72

8.4 average league finish

Career Value Rank#301

1,447 total value

Career standing

How Harry Gallatin 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 seasons4

Upper-tier finishes

Top-10 Impact Margin5.8

Tie-breaker across top-ten seasons

Career Composite Score11.2

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: 82.5
Qualified seasons: 8
All-time rank: #74

Strongest seasons

Every season

Harry Gallatin 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


1957–58Historical Defense Estimate	DET	30	72	1,990	+0.48	69.7	#24	122.0	67th	Modeled
1956–57Historical Defense Estimate	NYK	29	72	1,943	+1.17	79.7	#17	141.9	76th	Modeled
1955–56Historical Defense Estimate	NYK	28	72	2,378	+1.17	78.7	#17	167.0	83rd	Modeled
1954–55Historical Defense Estimate	NYK	27	72	2,548	+1.92	92.1	#7	212.0	89th	Modeled
1953–54Historical Defense Estimate	NYK	26	72	2,690	+2.42	92.7	#7	216.3	93rd	Modeled
1952–53Historical Defense Estimate	NYK	25	70	2,333	+2.44	91.5	#9	201.1	90th	Modeled
1951–52Historical Defense Estimate	NYK	24	66	1,931	+1.76	87.4	#13	143.6	84th	Modeled
1950–51legacy estimate	NYK	23	66	2,370	+3.20	95.2	#6	243.2	95th	Modeled

Career movement

Harry Gallatin's career impact by season

Peak +3.20 in 1950–51 · 8 seasons · 18,183 minutes

The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. The vertical scale adapts to this player's range and always includes zero.

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Career comparison

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Era-centered box impactEstimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average · dashed marker means the player did not play

Harry Gallatin and Jack Coleman era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Harry Gallatin	Jack Coleman
1	3.2	2.6
2	1.8	1.5
3	2.4	2.6
4	2.4	1.8
5	1.9	2.6
6	1.2	1.6
7	1.2	1.0
8	0.5	0.4

NBA season number

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The career-similarity score compares era-centered box impact, peak, prime, workload, career length, position, and experience-aligned trajectory. It describes career shape, not playing style, equal ability, or probability.

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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 →