Carmelo Anthony vs. Keegan Murray Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Keegan Murray and Carmelo Anthony, from their rookie seasons to their last year played, in chronological order with awards, stats, championships and playoff performance of their teams every year.

Who had the better rookie season? Who had best stats in their 10th season? Who won a championship first? These questions and many others, are answered here.

Carmelo Anthony played 19 years in the NBA, 16 more than Keegan Murray, who played 3. Carmelo Anthony had the first of his seasons in 2003-04, while Keegan Murray had his rookie season in 2022-23. With that starting point, here you can take a look at each of their seasons side by side and compare how their careers evolved in achievements, awards and championships won, the stats they recorded both in the Regular Season and the Playoffs and how their teams performed in the postseason.

Rookie Season
	Carmelo Anthony	Keegan Murray
Season	2003-04	2022-23
Team	Denver Nuggets	Sacramento Kings
Honors & Awards	All-Rookie First Team	All-Rookie First Team
Playoffs	Nuggets Lost West Conf 1st Rd	Kings Lost West Conf 1st Rd

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Rookie Season Stats Comparison
Regular Season Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Carmelo Anthony	82	36.5	21.0	2.2	3.8	6.1	2.8	1.2	0.5	3.0	2.7	7.6	17.9	.426	0.8	2.6	.322	5.0	6.4	.777
difference:	+2	+6.7	+8.8	+1.1	+0.3	+1.5	+1.6	+0.4		-2.2	-0.7	+3.2	+8.1	+.027	+1.8	+3.7	+.089	+4.2	+5.4	+.012
Keegan Murray	80	29.8	12.2	1.1	3.5	4.6	1.2	0.8	0.5	0.8	2.0	4.4	9.8	.453	2.6	6.3	.411	0.8	1.0	.765
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Carmelo Anthony	4	36.3	15.0	1.8	6.5	8.3	2.8	1.3	0.0	4.3	2.8	5.3	16.0	.328	0.5	2.8	.182	4.0	5.0	.800
difference:	+3	+8.6	+5.3	+0.3	+2.4	+2.0	+2.1	+0.7	+0.3	-3.7	-0.2	+1.6	+7.7	+.120	+1.2	+1.8	+.193	+3.4	+4.1	+.133
Keegan Murray	7	27.7	9.7	2.1	4.1	6.3	0.7	0.6	0.3	0.6	2.6	3.7	8.3	.448	1.7	4.6	.375	0.6	0.9	.667

Season 3
	Carmelo Anthony	Keegan Murray
Season	2005-06	2024-25
Team	Denver Nuggets	Sacramento Kings
Honors & Awards	All-NBA Third Team	-
Playoffs	Nuggets Lost West Conf 1st Rd	Did Not Play

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3rd Season Stats Comparison
Regular Season Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Carmelo Anthony	80	36.8	26.5	1.5	3.4	4.9	2.7	1.1	0.5	2.7	2.9	9.5	19.7	.481	0.5	1.9	.243	7.2	8.9	.808
difference:	+4	+2.5	+14.1	+0.4	+1.4	+1.8	+1.3	+0.3	+0.4	-1.9	-0.5	+4.7	+8.9	+.037	+1.5	+4.0	+.100	+6.4	+8.0	+.025
Keegan Murray	76	34.3	12.4	1.9	4.8	6.7	1.4	0.8	0.9	0.8	2.4	4.8	10.8	.444	2.0	5.9	.343	0.8	0.9	.833
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Carmelo Anthony	5	38.6	21.0	2.4	4.2	6.6	2.8	0.8	0.2	3.0	4.0	6.6	19.8	.333	0.0	0.8	.000	7.8	10.4	.750
Keegan Murray	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Additional Years
* Carmelo Anthony played 16 seasons more than Keegan Murray in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 4 to 19, from 2007 to 2022—Carmelo Anthony played in 10 Playoffs. In those 16 extra years over Keegan Murray, Carmelo Anthony got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	2 All-NBA Second Team 3 All-NBA Third Team 1 Scoring Leader 10 All-Star Game