Cooper Flagg vs. Brandon Ingram Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Brandon Ingram and Cooper Flagg, 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.

Cooper Flagg played 1 year in the NBA, 9 less than Brandon Ingram, who played 10. Cooper Flagg had his first NBA Season in 2025-26, while Brandon Ingram had his rookie season in 2016-17. 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
	Cooper Flagg	Brandon Ingram
Season	2025-26	2016-17
Team	Dallas Mavericks	Los Angeles Lakers
Honors & Awards	-	All-Rookie Second Team
Playoffs	Did Not Play	Did Not Play

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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		%
Cooper Flagg	2	33.0	14.0	1.0	6.5	7.5	3.0	1.0	0.5	4.0	3.0	5.0	13.5	.370	1.0	3.0	.333	3.0	3.0	1.000
difference:	+77	+4.2	+4.6	+0.2	+3.3	+3.5	+0.9	+0.4		-2.5	-1.0	+1.5	+4.8	+.032	+0.3	+0.6	+.039	+1.3	+0.3	+.379
Brandon Ingram	79	28.8	9.4	0.8	3.2	4.0	2.1	0.6	0.5	1.5	2.0	3.5	8.7	.402	0.7	2.4	.294	1.7	2.7	.621
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Cooper Flagg nor Brandon Ingram played in the postseason in their season 1

Additional Years
* Brandon Ingram played 9 seasons more than Cooper Flagg in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 2 to 10, from 2018 to 2026—Brandon Ingram played in two Playoffs. In those 9 extra years over Cooper Flagg, Brandon Ingram got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	1 Most Improved Player 1 All-Star Game