NBA Players that Peaked Late

There are two general truths about NBA players: they hit their peak around age 25 (it’s increased to 26 thanks in part to better training and medical treatments) and after age 30 their production tends to decline. There is a special breed of player though that waits until after their 30th birthday to finally hit their peak. Given the fact that many 30 year old players get very good contracts we might expect this number to be high. The truth though is that this type of player is very rare. I looked for players that put up a peak season that was also a stat season (WP > 10.0) in their thirties and could only come up with twelve names. Table 1: Players with a peak (Adjusted Production > 5.0) after age 30 ordered alphabetically Player Peak Age Peak WP Peak WP48 Pre-30 Peak Age Pre-30 Peak WP Pre-30 Peak WP48 Brent Barry 30 19.9 0.314 28 11.5 0.203 Darrell Armstrong 30 14.3* 0.279 29 4.2 0.162 Dennis Rodman 30 33.1 0.481 29 19.4 0.392 Dominique Wilkins 31 17.0 0.2...