Dirk, Wade, Vince, Melo, Pau career retrospectives

[Mike G]

Who else belongs with these guys -- great careers at the end of the run?
http://bkref.com/tiny/9a1Ph

Regular Season and Playoffs:

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RS :   Min   WS   vorp  PO.Min   WS  vorp
Dirk   51k   206   67    5895  23.1   8.9
Vince  45k   126   55    3033   7.4   4.1
Pau    41k   144   57    4825  15.5   7.8
Melo   38k   101   28    2773   5.8   2.0
Wade   35k   120   58    6697  21.6  11.5

Wade has the "smallest" RS but in most ways the "biggest" PS career.
A normal career has about a 10:1 ratio of RS to PO minutes.

Here's a quasi-quantitative look at "size" of career at various levels of excellence, by various measures.
Number of years from 1st to last qualification:

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span     Dirk  VC  Melo Wade Pau
allstar   14    8   11   12*  11
PER>25     5    1    0    7    0
PER>20    14    8   11   12   15
PER>15    19   16   14   16   18
WS48>.20  12    1    0    7    3
ws48>.15  15   11    9    9   15
ws48>.10  19   19   11   13   18
bpm>6      1    1    0    7    0
bpm>3     14    9    1    9   14
bpm>0     19   19   13   14   18
playoffs  16   18   15   16*  15

* - not counting this year's ASG by Wade, and assuming he reaches playoffs again (69% likely).

[eminence]

Pau is the first other guy to come to mind.

Vince has been almost shockingly effective at 42.

[Mike G]

Thanks, added Pau Gasol (duh)
Vince Carter this year has career high 3PAr (.662), 3fg% (.410), 2fg% (.493) and TS% (.583); along with career low FTr (.122) and Ast% (9.3).
Dunks are 4% of all his FG, just off his career avg. But of his 2ptFG, 14 of 67 (21%) have been dunks. At his dunkingest, it was 15-16%

[Crow]

By age https://www.basketball-reference.com/pl ... der_by=age

Crawford, Korver, Parker, Hiliaro, etc. could be included possibly if considered important enough. And Dwight Howard for sure.