+1. I don't know what UrsaMajor could have been thinking when he wrote that Yogi had a far better NBA career than Imhoff.barabbas said:UrsaMajor said:
I an see Yogi over Imhoff only because he had a far better NBA career (personally, I'd take Imhoff)
Don't agree at all!!! Imhoff played 12 years and made the 1967 all star team. Yogi played about 8 and was never close to being an all star.
I'll expand a little on what you wrote by adding the NBA statistics of both players (from Basketball-Reference.com). The stats are incomplete, because there were no stats kept for games started, steals and shot blocks during the course of Darrall Imhoff's career. You can bet he had plenty of all three, however.
Seasons played: Imhoff 12, Yogi 8
Games played: Imhoff 801, Yogi 286
Average minutes played: Imhoff 22, Yogi 11
Rebounds per game: Imhoff 8, Yogi 3
Assists per game: Imhoff 2, Yogi 0.3
Blocks per game: Imhoff unknown, Yogi 1.0
Points per game: Imhoff 7.2, Yogi 2.2
Yogi was a starter for only one season, 1998, when he started 37 games, averaged 22 minutes, 6.6 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 4.6 points. He started a total of only 6 games over the next 7 seasons.
Imhoff was a starter for much of his NBA career. In the five years from 1967-1971, Imhoff averaged 80 games per season, 30 minutes per game, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, and 10 points.
Imhoff was, as you said an NBA All-Star in 1967. In that season he was 1st in games played with 81, and 7th in the NBA in rebounds. In 1970 he was 2nd in the NBA in FG% at 0.540.
Yogi never won any awards, and was never on any leaderboard for any statistics in the NBA. He was a decent journeyman NBA player, but nothing to compare with Imhoff