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Richard Jefferson

Richard Jefferson stats, teams and career impact

#548 all-timeCareer averages · 12.6 PPG · 4.0 RPG · 2.0 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Position: Small forward
Final NBA team: Denver Nuggets
Height / weight: 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) · 233 lb (106 kg)
Born: June 21, 1980 (46 yrs old)
College: Arizona
NBA seasons: 17 seasons · 2001–02 to 2017–18

Career or season view

Career summaryRichard Jefferson was a small forward who played 17 NBA seasons, from 2001–02 through 2017–18.

Career PPG: 12.6
Career RPG: 4.0
Career APG: 2.0; #29 in 2005–06; #548 all-time

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

Career overview

Why Richard Jefferson ranks #548 all time

Richard Jefferson ranks #548 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #42.7. His full-career value ranks #315, so longevity is a major reason he lands this high.

Peak#29 in 2005–06

Best league finish

Sustained excellence16 ranked seasons

450+ minutes required per season

Career breadth17 seasons

1,181 games · Career Value Rank #315

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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources

Full team history

Teams: New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors, Utah Jazz, Dallas Mavericks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Denver Nuggets
Greatest Cavaliers →Greatest Mavericks →Greatest Nuggets →Greatest Warriors →Greatest Bucks →Greatest Nets →Greatest Spurs →Greatest Jazz →

Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 46.4%FG%
Three-point: 37.6%3P%
Free throw: 76.8%FT%

1,181 career games · 34,293 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

Richard Jefferson 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
2017–18	1.5	0.8	0.8	-7.59	DEN	20	0	8.2	44.4%	28.6%	57.1%	—	-18.4
2016–17	5.7	2.6	1.0	-3.98	CLE	79	13	20.4	44.6%	33.3%	74.1%	#344	-64.1
2015–16	5.5	1.7	0.8	-2.16	CLE	74	5	17.9	45.8%	38.2%	66.7%	#276	-4.2
2014–15	5.8	2.5	0.8	-1.55	DAL	74	18	16.8	44.4%	42.6%	68.4%	#251	11.0
2013–14	10.1	2.7	1.6	-1.23	UTA	82	78	27.0	45.0%	40.9%	74.1%	#224	32.5
2012–13	3.1	1.5	0.6	-2.04	GSW	56	1	10.1	45.6%	31.1%	71.7%	#263	-0.4
2011–12	9.2	3.5	1.4	-1.10	GSW/SAS	63	44	27.7	41.6%	42.0%	69.4%	#198	30.5
2010–11	11.0	3.8	1.3	-0.53	SAS	81	81	30.4	47.4%	44.0%	75.9%	#173	69.5
2009–10	12.3	4.4	2.0	-0.67	SAS	81	70	31.1	46.7%	31.6%	73.5%	#165	64.1
2008–09	19.6	4.6	2.4	+0.05	MIL	82	82	35.8	43.9%	39.7%	80.5%	#126	116.3
2007–08	22.6	4.2	3.1	+0.98	NJN	82	82	39.0	46.6%	36.2%	79.8%	#87	181.7
2006–07	16.3	4.4	2.7	-1.12	NJN	55	53	35.6	45.6%	35.9%	73.3%	#196	32.8
2005–06	19.5	6.8	3.8	+3.52	NJN	78	78	39.2	49.3%	31.9%	81.2%	#29	315.9
2004–05	22.2	7.3	4.0	+1.49	NJN	33	33	41.1	42.2%	33.7%	84.4%	#68	87.7
2003–04	18.5	5.7	3.8	+2.83	NJN	82	82	38.2	49.8%	36.4%	76.3%	#32	282.0
2002–03	15.5	6.4	2.5	+1.44	NJN	80	80	36.0	50.1%	25.0%	74.3%	#67	188.7
2001–02	9.4	3.7	1.8	-0.03	NJN	79	9	24.3	45.7%	23.2%	71.3%	#131	72.4
Career	12.6	4.0	2.0	—	CLE/DAL/DEN/GSW/MIL/NJN/SAS/UTA	1181	—	29.0	46.4%	37.6%	76.8%	—	—

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#548

59.8 composite · lower is better

Best 5#523

56.6 average league finish

Career Value Rank#315

1,398 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 Richard Jefferson 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 Score59.8

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: 341.5
Qualified seasons: 16
All-time rank: #548

Strongest seasons

Every season

Richard Jefferson 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
2017–18Historical Defense Estimate	DEN	37	20	163	-7.59	—	—	-18.4	—	Limited
2016–17Historical Defense Estimate	CLE	36	79	1,614	-3.98	5.5	#344	-64.1	2nd	Broad
2015–16Historical Defense Estimate	CLE	35	74	1,326	-2.16	24.2	#276	-4.2	24th	Broad
2014–15Historical Defense Estimate	DAL	34	74	1,244	-1.55	32.4	#251	11.0	32nd	Broad
2013–14Historical Defense Estimate	UTA	33	82	2,213	-1.23	35.4	#224	32.5	45th	Broad
2012–13Historical Defense Estimate	GSW	32	56	568	-2.04	25.1	#263	-0.4	25th	Standard
2011–12Historical Defense Estimate	GSW/SAS	31	63	1,748	-1.10	42.6	#198	30.5	49th	Broad
2010–11Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	30	81	2,459	-0.53	51.0	#173	69.5	63rd	Broad
2009–10Historical Defense Estimate	SAS	29	81	2,520	-0.67	51.2	#165	64.1	61st	Broad
2008–09Historical Defense Estimate	MIL	28	82	2,939	+0.05	62.5	#126	116.3	77th	Broad
2007–08Historical Defense Estimate	NJN	27	82	3,200	+0.98	74.0	#87	181.7	83rd	Broad
2006–07Historical Defense Estimate	NJN	26	55	1,956	-1.12	41.6	#196	32.8	49th	Broad
2005–06Historical Defense Estimate	NJN	25	78	3,059	+3.52	91.5	#29	315.9	93rd	Broad
2004–05Historical Defense Estimate	NJN	24	33	1,355	+1.49	80.5	#68	87.7	69th	Broad
2003–04Historical Defense Estimate	NJN	23	82	3,133	+2.83	90.6	#32	282.0	95th	Broad
2002–03Historical Defense Estimate	NJN	22	80	2,879	+1.44	79.2	#67	188.7	86th	Broad
2001–02Historical Defense Estimate	NJN	21	79	1,917	-0.03	59.8	#131	72.4	63rd	Broad

Career movement

Richard Jefferson's box impact by season

Peak box impact +3.52 points per 100 possessions in 2005–06 · 17 seasons · 34,293 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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Box impactEra-adjusted points per 100 possessions above league average · higher is better · dashed marker means the player did not play

Richard Jefferson and Mike Miller era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Richard Jefferson	Mike Miller
1	-0.0	-0.0
2	1.4	0.1
3	2.8	-0.5
4	1.5	0.4
5	3.5	2.4
6	-1.1	3.3
7	1.0	1.1
8	0.1	1.2
9	-0.7	1.3
10	-0.5	1.1
11	-1.1	-2.0
12	-2.0	-0.3
13	-1.2	1.1
14	-1.6	0.2
15	-2.2	-4.2
16	-4.0	-3.2
17	-7.6	-6.3

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 →