Bill Cartwright vs Tom Owens
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Bill Cartwright and Tom Owens compared on their NBA careers: Bill Cartwright played 15 seasons, 1979-80 to 1994-95, Tom Owens 7 seasons, 1976-77 to 1982-83. Bill Cartwright averaged 13.2 points a game to Tom Owens's 11.5. They have faced each other 10 times: Bill Cartwright's team won 7, Tom Owens's 3. Bill Cartwright won 3 titles.
Who has the better career numbers?
Bill Cartwright leads in 3 of the 4 lines, Tom Owens in 1. Bold marks the better figure; playing time — games, minutes, at-bats, innings — is not scored.
Tom Owens: no career line is published, so it is worked out from the seasons on file — career totals divided by games played.
Bill Cartwright vs Tom Owens head to head
They have faced each other 10 times: Bill Cartwright's team won 7, Tom Owens's 3.
Every game against each other
| Apr 5, 1983 |  DET at  NY | W 110-107 | 20 PTS, 8 REB, 2 AST, 39 MIN | 5 PTS, 5 REB, 1 AST, 13 MIN |
| Feb 23, 1983 | NY at DET | W 120-107 | 15 PTS, 8 REB, 3 AST, 26 MIN | 8 PTS, 1 REB, 1 AST, 11 MIN |
| Dec 14, 1982 | DET at NY | L 104-99 | 10 PTS, 7 REB, 1 AST, 28 MIN | 1 PTS, 5 REB, 0 AST, 13 MIN |
| Dec 8, 1982 | NY at DET | W 120-109 | 24 PTS, 5 REB, 1 AST, 28 MIN | 4 PTS, 4 REB, 0 AST, 15 MIN |
| Mar 30, 1982 |  IND at NY | W 108-104 | 10 PTS, 0 REB, 0 AST, 18 MIN | 12 PTS, 10 REB, 4 AST, 28 MIN |
| Feb 24, 1982 | NY at IND | L 118-87 | 14 PTS, 9 REB, 2 AST, 29 MIN | 16 PTS, 9 REB, 3 AST, 19 MIN |
| Jan 23, 1981 | NY at  POR | L 117-90 | 13 PTS, 9 REB, 1 AST, 30 MIN | 10 PTS, 11 REB, 3 AST, 31 MIN |
| Nov 29, 1980 | POR at NY | W 111-110 | 17 PTS, 8 REB, 0 AST, 30 MIN | 6 PTS, 10 REB, 3 AST, 31 MIN |
| Feb 19, 1980 | POR at NY | W 113-103 | 20 PTS, 13 REB, 3 AST, 44 MIN | 17 PTS, 10 REB, 4 AST, 32 MIN |
| Dec 23, 1979 | NY at POR | W 111-103 | 25 PTS, 10 REB, 4 AST, 44 MIN | 12 PTS, 4 REB, 1 AST, 27 MIN |
Games both played on opposite sides, from the game logs on file; the record is their teams’.
Where each stands all time
Among the NBA players with a career line on file, regular season, counting stats only — the same lists the records pages run on.
Titles and awards
Awards come from the league’s published winner lists; a championship counts a season played for the club that won it.
Season by season
Lined up by career year, not by calendar: each row is the players’ nth season.