Cooper Flagg vs. Mark Jackson Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Mark Jackson 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, 16 less than Mark Jackson, who played 17. Cooper Flagg had his first NBA Season in 2025-26, while Mark Jackson had his rookie season in 1987-88. 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	Mark Jackson
Season	2025-26	1987-88
Team	Dallas Mavericks	New York Knicks
Honors & Awards	-	Rookie of the Year
	-	All-Rookie First Team
Playoffs	Did Not Play	Knicks Lost East 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		%
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	+7.6	+3.6	+0.5	+5.6	+5.2	+10.6	+1.5	+0.1	-0.1		+1.3	+0.6	+.124	+0.4	+0.5	+.254	+0.5	+1.2	+.226
Mark Jackson	82	39.6	13.6	1.5	3.4	4.8	10.6	2.5	0.1	3.1	3.0	5.3	12.4	.432	0.4	1.5	.254	2.5	3.2	.774
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Cooper Flagg	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mark Jackson	4	42.8	14.3	1.5	3.3	4.8	9.8	2.5	0.0	3.5	3.3	5.5	15.0	.367	1.3	3.0	.417	2.0	2.8	.727

Additional Years
* Mark Jackson played 16 seasons more than Cooper Flagg in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 2 to 17, from 1989 to 2004—Mark Jackson played in 13 Playoffs. In those 16 extra years over Cooper Flagg, Mark Jackson got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	1 Assists Leader 1 All-Star Game