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Nate Thurmond
Nate Thurmond advanced stats and career rankings
7.8 average league finish
3,476 total value
Bottom line · Career overview
Nate Thurmond ranks #54 all time. 4 top-ten finishes give him a sustained run near the top of the league. His full-career value ranks #61, making peak performance the stronger part of his case. Explore Nate Thurmond's advanced stats by season, era-adjusted impact, workload, and historical comparisons.
Career standing
How Nate Thurmond 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
Standard deviations across scoring seasons
Career Composite8.8
Equal average of Best 3, Prime 5, and Best 10 league finishes. The overlapping windows make this explicitly peak-weighted. Lower is better.
- Best 3 weight
- 63.3%
- Score
- 8.8
- Qualified seasons
- 14
- All-time rank
- #54
Strongest seasons
Every season
Nate Thurmond advanced stats by season
Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.
| Season | Team | Age | GP | MP | Era-centered box impact | Impact Rate | Rate rank | Season Value | Value percentile | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976–77Historical Defense Estimate | CLE | 35 | 49 | 997 | +1.31 | 81.5 | #46 | 69.9 | 57th | Established |
| 1975–76Historical Defense Estimate | CHI/CLE | 34 | 78 | 1,393 | +0.16 | 68.6 | #60 | 63.6 | 57th | Strong |
| 1974–75Historical Defense Estimate | CHI | 33 | 80 | 2,756 | +1.52 | 85.0 | #29 | 201.3 | 89th | Strong |
| 1973–74Historical Defense Estimate | GSW | 32 | 62 | 2,463 | +1.47 | 84.7 | #28 | 193.8 | 84th | Strong |
| 1972–73Historical Defense Estimate | GSW | 31 | 79 | 3,419 | +2.71 | 90.7 | #17 | 376.7 | 95th | Modeled |
| 1971–72Historical Defense Estimate | GSW | 30 | 78 | 3,362 | +2.53 | 90.2 | #17 | 358.6 | 95th | Modeled |
| 1970–71Historical Defense Estimate | SFW | 29 | 82 | 3,351 | +2.12 | 89.8 | #18 | 326.6 | 93rd | Modeled |
| 1969–70Historical Defense Estimate | SFW | 28 | 43 | 1,919 | +2.61 | 92.9 | #11 | 214.6 | 85th | Modeled |
| 1968–69Historical Defense Estimate | SFW | 27 | 71 | 3,208 | +2.70 | 93.2 | #10 | 368.0 | 94th | Modeled |
| 1967–68Historical Defense Estimate | SFW | 26 | 51 | 2,222 | +3.12 | 97.5 | #4 | 292.7 | 92nd | Modeled |
| 1966–67Historical Defense Estimate | SFW | 25 | 65 | 2,761 | +2.34 | 95.0 | #6 | 318.4 | 94th | Modeled |
| 1965–66Historical Defense Estimate | SFW | 24 | 73 | 2,891 | +1.00 | 83.9 | #16 | 225.4 | 86th | Modeled |
| 1964–65Historical Defense Estimate | SFW | 23 | 77 | 3,173 | +2.32 | 92.1 | #8 | 342.1 | 94th | Modeled |
| 1963–64Historical Defense Estimate | SFW | 22 | 76 | 1,966 | +0.64 | 81.5 | #18 | 124.6 | 75th | Modeled |
Career movement
Nate Thurmond's career impact by season
Peak +3.12 in 1967–68 · 14 seasons · 35,881 minutes
The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. This is separate from the current lineup-context ranking.
Era-centered box impactMinutesModeled estimate
Across-era box estimateWorkload
Career comparison
Compare the shape, not the calendar
Align by NBA experience to compare season one with season one, or by age to compare players at the same stage of life.
Nate ThurmondSam Lacey
NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15
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The score compares era-centered box impact, peak, prime, workload, career length, position, and trajectory aligned by NBA experience. It describes career shape, not playing style or equal ability.
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