Cooper Flagg vs. Brook Lopez Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Brook Lopez 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, 17 less than Brook Lopez, who played 18. Cooper Flagg had his first NBA Season in 2025-26, while Brook Lopez had his rookie season in 2008-09. 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	Brook Lopez
Season	2025-26	2008-09
Team	Dallas Mavericks	New Jersey Nets
Honors & Awards	-	All-Rookie First 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	1	32.0	10.0	1.0	9.0	10.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	3.0	3.0	4.0	13.0	.308	0.0	1.0	.000	2.0	2.0	1.000
difference:	+81	+1.5	+3.0	+1.7	+3.6	+1.9	+1.0	+0.5	+1.8	-1.2	-0.1	+1.5	+2.7	+.223		+1.0		+0.1	+0.6	+.207
Brook Lopez	82	30.5	13.0	2.7	5.4	8.1	1.0	0.5	1.8	1.8	3.1	5.5	10.3	.531	0.0	0.0	-	2.1	2.6	.793
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Cooper Flagg nor Brook Lopez played in the postseason in their season 1

Additional Years
* Brook Lopez played 17 seasons more than Cooper Flagg in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 2 to 18, from 2010 to 2026—Brook Lopez played in 9 Playoffs and won one NBA Championship and one NBA Cup. In those 17 extra years over Cooper Flagg, Brook Lopez got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	1 All-Defensive First Team 1 All-Defensive Second Team 1 All-Star Game