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Tom Chambers

Tom Chambers stats, teams and career impact

#895 all-timeCareer averages · 18.1 PPG · 6.1 RPG · 2.1 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Position: Power forward
Final NBA team: Philadelphia 76ers
Height / weight: 6 ft 10 in (208 cm) · 220 lb (100 kg)
Born: June 21, 1959 (67 yrs old)
College: Utah
NBA seasons: 16 seasons · 1981–82 to 1997–98

Career or season view

Career summaryTom Chambers was a power forward who played 16 NBA seasons, from 1981–82 through 1997–98.

Career PPG: 18.1
Career RPG: 6.1
Career APG: 2.1; #61 in 1989–90; #895 all-time

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

Career overview

Why Tom Chambers ranks #895 all time

Tom Chambers ranks #895 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #74.7. His full-career value ranks #538, so longevity is a major reason he lands this high.

Peak#61 in 1989–90

Best league finish

Sustained excellence14 ranked seasons

450+ minutes required per season

Career breadth16 seasons

1,107 games · Career Value Rank #538

NBA honors4× 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: San Diego Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns, Utah Jazz, Charlotte Hornets, and Philadelphia 76ers
Greatest Hornets →Greatest 76ers →Greatest Suns →Greatest Clippers →Greatest Thunder →Greatest Jazz →

Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 46.8%FG%
Three-point: 30.7%3P%
Free throw: 80.7%FT%

1,107 career games · 33,922 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

Tom Chambers 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.

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
1997–98	6.0	2.0	0.0	-11.47	PHI	1	0	10.0	100.0%	—	100.0%	—	-1.8
1996–97	1.6	1.2	0.3	-14.06	CHH	12	5	6.9	22.6%	66.7%	75.0%	—	-18.5
1994–95	6.2	2.6	0.9	-3.62	UTA	81	4	15.3	45.7%	16.7%	80.7%	#271	-38.8
1993–94	11.2	4.1	1.0	-2.80	UTA	80	0	23.0	44.0%	31.1%	78.6%	#247	-28.7
1992–93	12.2	4.7	1.4	-2.65	PHO	73	0	23.6	44.7%	39.3%	83.7%	#230	-23.4
1991–92	16.3	5.8	2.1	-1.61	PHO	69	66	28.2	43.1%	36.7%	83.0%	#180	15.6
1990–91	19.9	6.4	2.6	-1.56	PHO	76	75	32.6	43.7%	27.4%	82.6%	#191	22.8
1989–90	27.2	7.0	2.3	+1.19	PHO	81	81	37.6	50.1%	27.9%	86.1%	#61	204.1
1988–89	25.7	8.4	2.9	+0.55	PHO	81	81	37.1	47.1%	32.6%	85.1%	#76	166.5
1987–88	20.4	6.0	2.6	-0.03	SEA	82	82	32.7	44.8%	30.3%	80.7%	#95	110.1
1986–87	23.3	6.6	3.0	-0.18	SEA	82	82	36.8	45.6%	37.2%	84.9%	#100	116.6
1985–86	18.5	6.5	2.0	+0.11	SEA	66	26	30.6	46.6%	27.1%	83.6%	#101	86.5
1984–85	21.5	7.1	2.6	+0.39	SEA	81	60	36.1	48.3%	27.3%	83.2%	#87	144.7
1983–84	18.1	6.5	1.6	-0.81	SEA	82	44	31.3	49.9%	0.0%	80.0%	#134	63.4
1982–83	17.6	6.6	2.4	-1.16	SDC	79	79	33.7	47.2%	0.0%	72.3%	#153	48.2
1981–82	17.2	6.9	1.8	-2.72	SDC	81	58	33.1	52.5%	0.0%	62.0%	#214	-40.5
Career	18.1	6.1	2.1	—	CHH/PHI/PHO/SDC/SEA/UTA	1107	—	30.6	46.8%	30.7%	80.7%	—	—

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#895

86.0 composite · lower is better

Best 5#877

83.8 average league finish

Career Value Rank#538

827 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 Tom Chambers 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 Score86.0

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: 261.5
Qualified seasons: 14
All-time rank: #895

Strongest seasons

Every season

Tom Chambers 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
1997–98Historical Defense Estimate	PHI	38	1	10	-11.47	—	—	-1.8	—	Limited
1996–97Historical Defense Estimate	CHH	37	12	83	-14.06	—	—	-18.5	—	Limited
1994–95Historical Defense Estimate	UTA	35	81	1,240	-3.62	12.6	#271	-38.8	7th	Broad
1993–94Historical Defense Estimate	UTA	34	80	1,838	-2.80	15.5	#247	-28.7	10th	Broad
1992–93Historical Defense Estimate	PHO	33	73	1,723	-2.65	22.4	#230	-23.4	15th	Broad
1991–92Historical Defense Estimate	PHO	32	69	1,948	-1.61	38.1	#180	15.6	41st	Broad
1990–91Historical Defense Estimate	PHO	31	76	2,475	-1.56	34.7	#191	22.8	41st	Broad
1989–90Historical Defense Estimate	PHO	30	81	3,046	+1.19	79.1	#61	204.1	86th	Broad
1988–89Historical Defense Estimate	PHO	29	81	3,002	+0.55	71.5	#76	166.5	81st	Broad
1987–88Historical Defense Estimate	SEA	28	82	2,680	-0.03	62.4	#95	110.1	74th	Broad
1986–87Historical Defense Estimate	SEA	27	82	3,018	-0.18	61.3	#100	116.6	72nd	Broad
1985–86Historical Defense Estimate	SEA	26	66	2,019	+0.11	60.6	#101	86.5	61st	Broad
1984–85Historical Defense Estimate	SEA	25	81	2,923	+0.39	66.0	#87	144.7	79th	Broad
1983–84Historical Defense Estimate	SEA	24	82	2,570	-0.81	46.4	#134	63.4	52nd	Broad
1982–83Historical Defense Estimate	SDC	23	79	2,665	-1.16	39.9	#153	48.2	53rd	Broad
1981–82Historical Defense Estimate	SDC	22	81	2,682	-2.72	16.1	#214	-40.5	7th	Broad

Career movement

Tom Chambers's box impact by season

Peak box impact +1.19 points per 100 possessions in 1989–90 · 16 seasons · 33,922 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.

Box impact · points per 100 possessionsMinutes

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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

Tom Chambers and Taj Gibson era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Tom Chambers	Taj Gibson
1	-2.7	-1.0
2	-1.2	-0.7
3	-0.8	0.8
4	0.4	-0.3
5	0.1	0.1
6	-0.2	-0.0
7	-0.0	0.8
8	0.5	-0.9
9	1.2	-1.0
10	-1.6	0.4
11	-1.6	-0.4
12	-2.7	0.7
13	-2.8	-1.8
14	-3.6	-3.0
15	-14.1	-7.4
16	-11.5	-4.5
17	Did not play	-7.8

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 →