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Maurice Stokes
Maurice Stokes stats, teams and career impact
#168 all-timeCareer averages · 16.4 PPG · 17.3 RPG · 5.3 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
- Position
- Power forward
- Final NBA team
- Cincinnati Royals
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) · 232 lb (105 kg)
- Born
- June 17, 1933
- Died
- April 6, 1970 (36 yrs old)
- College
- Saint Francis University
- NBA seasons
- 3 seasons · 1955–56 to 1957–58
Career summaryMaurice Stokes was a power forward who played 3 NBA seasons, from 1955–56 through 1957–58.
- Career PPG
- 16.4
- Career RPG
- 17.3
- Career APG
- 5.3
- #1 in 1957–58
- #168 all-time
Best-Season Impact Rank
Career Impact Rank
Peak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
Career overview
Why Maurice Stokes ranks #168 all time
Maurice Stokes ranks #168 all time. He finished #1 in 2 seasons and in the top five 3 times, giving him an elite peak. His full-career value ranks #438, so this placement is driven more by dominance than longevity.
3 top-five · 3 top-ten finishes
202 games · Career Value Rank #438
NBA honors3× All-Star · 3× All-NBA · ROYContext only; honors are not model inputs.
Head to head
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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Rochester Royals and Cincinnati Royals
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 35.1%FG%
- Three-point
- —3P%
- Free throw
- 69.8%FT%
202 career games · 7,544 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
Maurice Stokes stats by season
Start with scoring and impact, then switch views for shooting or the full advanced picture. Career percentages use total makes and attempts.
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| 1957–58 | 16.9 | 18.1 | 6.4 | +4.59 | CIN | 63 | 0 | 39.0 | 35.1% | — | 71.5% | #1 | 396.1 |
| 1956–57 | 15.6 | 17.4 | 4.6 | +3.36 | ROC | 72 | 0 | 38.3 | 34.7% | — | 66.5% | #4 | 337.4 |
| 1955–56 | 16.8 | 16.3 | 4.9 | +3.79 | ROC | 67 | 0 | 34.7 | 35.4% | — | 71.4% | #1 | 313.1 |
| Career | 16.4 | 17.3 | 5.3 | — | CIN/ROC | 202 | — | 37.3 | 35.1% | — | 69.8% | — | — |
Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.
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.
21.8 composite · lower is better
32.4 average league finish
1,047 total value
Career standing
How Maurice Stokes ranks all time
These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.
Best in the league
Elite finishes
Upper-tier finishes
Tie-breaker across top-ten seasons
Career Composite Score21.8
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
- —
- Qualified seasons
- 3
- All-time rank
- #168
Strongest seasons
Every season
Maurice Stokes 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
Career movement
Maurice Stokes's career impact by season
Peak +4.59 in 1957–58 · 3 seasons · 7,544 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.
Era-centered box impactMinutesModeled estimate
Player-specific impact scaleWorkload
Early-career comparison
Compare the first 3 seasons
Both players are limited to their first 3 seasons. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.
Maurice StokesBob Pettit
| NBA season | Maurice Stokes | Bob Pettit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| 2 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
| 3 | 4.6 | 4.1 |
NBA season number · first 3 seasons only
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Maurice Stokes
The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 3 seasons and 2,103 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.
C · All-Time Career #10
Bob Pettit
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
Medium evidence · first 3 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1957–58 ↔ 1956–57PF · All-Time Career #30Tim Duncan
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
Medium evidence · first 3 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1957–58 ↔ 1999–00C · All-Time Career #50Wes Unseld
99.7start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: very closeAge: very closeRole: very close
Medium evidence · first 3 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1957–58 ↔ 1970–71Impact 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 →