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[QUOTE="satsuma, post: 5612695, member: 10141"]
This is a great table, but in my opinion, you highlighted the wrong column.

I believe there's one simple career stat that says more about a player's NBA value than anything else, and it's minutes played.

Scoring is conditional on so many things: coaches, offensive sets, teammates, and so on. Looking only at individual point totals might penalize players who specialize in other things (assists, for example) that are just as valuable in a team sport.

Minutes are more straightforward: you're on the court because you're healthy and can contribute, whether you're a starter or a reserve. I guess players on bad teams might play more minutes out of necessity, but in general, it's not a number that can be easily skewed.

Sports fans never really talk about career minutes, so when I say that Jerami Grant has played over 20,000 minutes in his NBA career, what does that actually mean? That's not a milestone that gets celebrated, though maybe it should. Based on this table, it means he's 7th among former Syracuse players.

For better context, you'd probably want to compare him to other players who've been in the league as long as he has.
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