Cooper Flagg vs. Glen Rice Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Glen Rice 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, 14 less than Glen Rice, who played 15. Cooper Flagg had his first NBA Season in 2025-26, while Glen Rice had his rookie season in 1989-90. 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	Glen Rice
Season	2025-26	1989-90
Team	Dallas Mavericks	Miami Heat
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	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:	+76	+2.0	+3.6	+0.3	+5.7	+5.4	+1.8	+0.1	+0.4	-1.5	-0.4	+2.1	+0.9	+.131	+0.2	+0.1	+.246	+0.8	+0.4	+.266
Glen Rice	77	30.0	13.6	1.3	3.3	4.6	1.8	0.9	0.4	1.5	2.6	6.1	13.9	.439	0.2	0.9	.246	1.2	1.6	.734
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Cooper Flagg nor Glen Rice played in the postseason in their season 1

Additional Years
* Glen Rice played 14 seasons more than Cooper Flagg in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 2 to 15, from 1991 to 2004—Glen Rice played in 7 Playoffs and won one NBA Championship. In those 14 extra years over Cooper Flagg, Glen Rice got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	1 All-NBA Second Team 1 All-NBA Third Team 3 All-Star Game 1 All-Star Game MVP