Cooper Flagg vs. Nikola Jokic Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Nikola Jokic 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, 10 less than Nikola Jokic, who played 11. Cooper Flagg had his first NBA Season in 2025-26, while Nikola Jokic had his rookie season in 2015-16. 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	Nikola Jokic
Season	2025-26	2015-16
Team	Dallas Mavericks	Denver Nuggets
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:	+79	+10.3		+1.3	+4.3	+3.0	+2.4		+0.6	-1.7	-0.4	+0.2	+5.5	+.204	+0.4	+0.1	+.333	+0.1	+0.4	+.189
Nikola Jokic	80	21.7	10.0	2.3	4.7	7.0	2.4	1.0	0.6	1.3	2.6	3.8	7.5	.512	0.4	1.1	.333	1.9	2.4	.811
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Cooper Flagg nor Nikola Jokic played in the postseason in their season 1

Additional Years
* Nikola Jokic played 10 seasons more than Cooper Flagg in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 2 to 11, from 2017 to 2026—Nikola Jokic played in 7 Playoffs and won one NBA Championship. In those 10 extra years over Cooper Flagg, Nikola Jokic got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	1 Finals MVP 3 Season MVP 5 All-NBA First Team 2 All-NBA Second Team 7 All-Star Game