Dereck Lively II vs. Dwyane Wade Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Dwyane Wade and Dereck Lively II, 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.

Dereck Lively II played 2 years in the NBA, 14 less than Dwyane Wade, who played 16. Dereck Lively II had the first of his seasons in 2023-24, while Dwyane Wade had his rookie season in 2003-04. 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
	Dereck Lively II	Dwyane Wade
Season	2023-24	2003-04
Team	Dallas Mavericks	Miami Heat
Honors & Awards	-	All-Rookie First Team
	All-Rookie Second Team	-
Playoffs	Mavericks Lost NBA Finals	Heat Lost East Conf Semis

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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		%
Dereck Lively II	55	23.5	8.8	2.5	4.4	6.9	1.1	0.7	1.4	0.9	2.6	4.0	5.4	.747	0.0	0.0	-	0.7	1.5	.506
difference:	+6	+11.4	+7.4	+1.1	+1.7	+2.9	+3.4	+0.7	+0.8	-2.3	-0.3	+2.1	+7.7	+.282	+0.3	+0.9		+3.1	+3.6	+.241
Dwyane Wade	61	34.9	16.2	1.4	2.7	4.0	4.5	1.4	0.6	3.2	2.3	6.1	13.1	.465	0.3	0.9	.302	3.8	5.1	.747
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Dereck Lively II	21	22.0	7.9	2.7	4.7	7.4	1.3	0.4	1.0	1.0	2.3	3.0	4.5	.674	0.0	0.0	-	1.7	2.9	.590
difference:	+8	+17.5	+10.1	+1.5	+1.9	+3.4	+4.3	+0.9	+0.7	-3.2	-1.2	+3.6	+10.0	+.219	+0.2	+0.6		+2.8	+2.9	+.197
Dwyane Wade	13	39.5	18.0	1.2	2.8	4.0	5.6	1.3	0.3	4.2	3.5	6.6	14.5	.455	0.2	0.6	.375	4.5	5.8	.787

Season 2
	Dereck Lively II	Dwyane Wade
Season	2024-25	2004-05
Team	Dallas Mavericks	Miami Heat
Honors & Awards	-	All-NBA Second Team
	-	All-Defensive Second Team
	-	All-Star Game
Playoffs	Did Not Play	Heat Lost East Conf Finals

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2nd Season Stats Comparison
Regular Season Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Dereck Lively II	36	23.1	8.7	2.9	4.6	7.5	2.4	0.6	1.6	1.1	2.8	3.7	5.3	.702	0.0	0.0	-	1.3	2.0	.630
difference:	+41	+15.5	+15.4	+1.5	+0.9	+2.3	+4.4	+1.0	+0.5	-3.1	-0.2	+4.5	+11.8	+.224	+0.2	+0.6		+6.2	+7.9	+.132
Dwyane Wade	77	38.6	24.1	1.4	3.7	5.2	6.8	1.6	1.1	4.2	3.0	8.2	17.1	.478	0.2	0.6	.289	7.5	9.9	.762
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Dereck Lively II	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dwyane Wade	14	41.0	27.4	1.6	4.1	5.7	6.6	1.6	1.1	4.4	3.1	9.7	20.1	.484	0.1	0.7	.100	7.9	9.9	.799

Additional Years
* Dwyane Wade played 14 seasons more than Dereck Lively II in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 3 to 16, from 2006 to 2019—Dwyane Wade played in 11 Playoffs and won 3 NBA Championships. In those 14 extra years over Dereck Lively II, Dwyane Wade got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	1 Finals MVP 2 All-NBA First Team 2 All-NBA Second Team 3 All-NBA Third Team 2 All-Defensive Second Team 1 Scoring Leader 12 All-Star Game 1 All-Star Game MVP