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Wilbur Holland
Wilbur Holland stats, teams and career impact
#1321 all-timeCareer averages · 13.6 PPG · 3.1 RPG · 3.3 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
- Position
- Shooting guard
- Final NBA team
- Chicago Bulls
- Height / weight
- 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) · 175 lb (79 kg)
- Born
- November 8, 1951
- Died
- October 15, 2022 (70 yrs old)
- College
- New Orleans
- NBA seasons
- 4 seasons · 1975–76 to 1978–79
Career summaryWilbur Holland was a shooting guard who played 4 NBA seasons, from 1975–76 through 1978–79.
- Career PPG
- 13.6
- Career RPG
- 3.1
- Career APG
- 3.3
- #32 in 1976–77
- #1321 all-time
Best-Season Impact Rank
Career Impact Rank
Peak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded
Career overview
Why Wilbur Holland ranks #1321 all time
Wilbur Holland ranks #1321 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #105.7. His full-career value ranks #1055, so longevity is a major reason he lands this high.
450+ minutes required per season
276 games · Career Value Rank #1055
Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources
Full team history
- Teams
- Atlanta Hawks and Chicago Bulls
Career shooting
NBA regular season- Field goal
- 45.2%FG%
- Three-point
- —3P%
- Free throw
- 79.9%FT%
276 career games · 8,171 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
Wilbur Holland stats by season
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| 1978–79 | 12.6 | 3.1 | 4.0 | -1.10 | CHI | 82 | 0 | 30.3 | 47.3% | — | 80.1% | #145 | 47.9 |
| 1977–78 | 16.6 | 3.6 | 3.8 | -1.14 | CHI | 82 | 0 | 35.2 | 44.3% | — | 79.9% | #140 | 52.2 |
| 1976–77 | 14.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | +1.76 | CHI | 79 | 0 | 31.1 | 45.4% | — | 82.3% | #32 | 192.2 |
| 1975–76 | 5.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | -4.66 | ATL | 33 | 0 | 10.6 | 39.9% | — | 64.7% | — | -20.1 |
| Career | 13.6 | 3.1 | 3.3 | — | ATL/CHI | 276 | — | 29.6 | 45.2% | — | 79.9% | — | — |
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.
76.1 composite · lower is better
73.4 average league finish
272 total value
Career standing
How Wilbur Holland 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 Score76.1
Equal average of Best 3, Best 5, and Best 10 league finishes. The overlapping windows make this explicitly peak-weighted. Lower is better.
- Best 3 weight
- 63.3%
- Score
- 76.1
- Qualified seasons
- 3
- All-time rank
- #1321
Strongest seasons
Every season
Wilbur Holland 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
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Career movement
Wilbur Holland's career impact by season
Peak +1.76 in 1976–77 · 4 seasons · 8,171 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 impactMinutes
Player-specific impact scaleWorkload
Early-career comparison
Compare the first 4 seasons
Both players are limited to their first 4 seasons. Later seasons never affect the selection or score, and the result is not a career prediction.
Wilbur HollandDuncan Robinson
| NBA season | Wilbur Holland | Duncan Robinson |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | -4.7 | -5.8 |
| 2 | 1.8 | 0.7 |
| 3 | -1.1 | -0.7 |
| 4 | -1.1 | -1.7 |
NBA season number · first 4 seasons only
Similar starts
Players with starts similar to Wilbur Holland
The start-similarity percentile compares era-relative impact, season-relative workload, trajectory, debut age, and role across exactly 4 seasons and 1,880 eligible starts. Higher means closer; it is not a probability or forecast.
SG · All-Time Career #2609
Duncan Robinson
99.9start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: closeAge: very closeRole: very close
High evidence · first 4 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1976–77 ↔ 2019–20SG · All-Time Career #2522Tomáš Satoranský
99.1start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: closeAge: very closeRole: very close
High evidence · first 4 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1976–77 ↔ 2017–18PG · All-Time Career #2191Rory Sparrow
98.2start similarity percentile
Impact: very closeWorkload: very closeTrend: closeAge: closeRole: close
High evidence · first 4 seasonsClosest early-season pairing · 1976–77 ↔ 1981–82Impact 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 →