Gary Phillips vs Mel Nowell
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Gary Phillips and Mel Nowell compared on their NBA careers: Gary Phillips played 5 seasons, 1961-62 to 1965-66, Mel Nowell 1 season, 1962-63 to 1962-63. Gary Phillips averaged 6.7 points a game to Mel Nowell's 5.9. They have faced each other 5 times: Gary Phillips's team won 3, Mel Nowell's 2. Gary Phillips won 1 title.
Who has the better career numbers?
Gary Phillips leads in 2 of the 3 lines, Mel Nowell in 1. Bold marks the better figure; playing time — games, minutes, at-bats, innings — is not scored.
Gary Phillips and Mel Nowell: no career line is published, so it is worked out from the seasons on file — career totals divided by games played.
Gary Phillips vs Mel Nowell head to head
They have faced each other 5 times: Gary Phillips's team won 3, Mel Nowell's 2.
Every game against each other
| Jan 5, 1963 |  GS at  WSH | W 127-126 | 3 PTS, 2 REB, 1 AST, 15 MIN | 7 PTS, 0 REB, 4 AST, 16 MIN |
| Dec 9, 1962 | GS at WSH | L 110-102 | 7 PTS, 2 REB, 0 AST, 17 MIN | 7 PTS, 1 REB, 0 AST, 11 MIN |
| Nov 27, 1962 | WSH at GS | L 115-107 | 23 PTS, 6 REB, 5 AST, 47 MIN | 25 PTS, 5 REB, 6 AST, 39 MIN |
| Nov 10, 1962 | WSH at GS | W 113-108 | 4 PTS, 1 REB, 0 AST, 12 MIN | 2 PTS, 2 REB, 1 AST, 16 MIN |
| Oct 27, 1962 | GS at WSH | W 129-126 | 2 PTS, 0 REB, 2 AST, 11 MIN | 4 PTS, 3 REB, 0 AST, 13 MIN |
Games both played on opposite sides, from the game logs on file; the record is their teams’.
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.