Bill Laimbeer vs Swen Nater
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Bill Laimbeer and Swen Nater compared on their NBA careers: Bill Laimbeer played 14 seasons, 1980-81 to 1993-94, Swen Nater 8 seasons, 1976-77 to 1983-84. Bill Laimbeer averaged 12.9 points a game to Swen Nater's 12.2. They have faced each other 5 times: Bill Laimbeer's team won 3, Swen Nater's 2. Bill Laimbeer won 2 titles.
Who has the better career numbers?
Bill Laimbeer leads in 3 of the 4 lines, Swen Nater in 1. Bold marks the better figure; playing time — games, minutes, at-bats, innings — is not scored.
Swen Nater: no career line is published, so it is worked out from the seasons on file — career totals divided by games played.
Bill Laimbeer vs Swen Nater head to head
They have faced each other 5 times: Bill Laimbeer's team won 3, Swen Nater's 2.
Every game against each other
| Mar 23, 1984 |  DET at  LAL | W 121-118 | 21 PTS, 19 REB, 1 AST, 39 MIN | 0 PTS, 1 REB, 0 AST, 6 MIN |
| Mar 4, 1984 | LAL at DET | L 118-114 | 27 PTS, 5 REB, 1 AST, 38 MIN | 0 PTS, 1 REB, 0 AST, 5 MIN |
| Jan 1, 1983 | DET at  LAC | W 117-105 | 4 PTS, 5 REB, 4 AST, 29 MIN | 0 PTS, 0 REB, 0 AST, 2 MIN |
| Mar 6, 1981 |  CLE at LAC | L 140-125 | 4 PTS, 4 REB, 6 AST, 34 MIN | 21 PTS, 12 REB, 1 AST, 35 MIN |
| Nov 18, 1980 | LAC at CLE | W 104-94 | 6 PTS, 10 REB, 3 AST, 35 MIN | 14 PTS, 7 REB, 0 AST, 25 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.