Derik Queen vs. Karl-Anthony Towns Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Karl-Anthony Towns and Derik Queen, 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.

Derik Queen played 1 year in the NBA, 10 less than Karl-Anthony Towns, who played 11. Derik Queen had his first NBA Season in 2025-26, while Karl-Anthony Towns 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
	Derik Queen	Karl-Anthony Towns
Season	2025-26	2015-16
Team	New Orleans Pelicans	Minnesota Timberwolves
Honors & Awards	-	Rookie of the Year
	-	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		%
Derik Queen	27	25.2	12.7	1.6	4.8	6.4	4.1	1.0	0.8	2.3	3.3	4.8	9.5	.504	0.1	0.7	.111	3.1	3.9	.798
difference:	+55	+6.8	+5.6	+1.2	+2.9	+4.1	+2.1	+0.3	+0.9	-0.1	-0.3	+2.8	+4.6	+.038	+0.3	+0.4	+.230	+0.4	+0.5	+.013
Karl-Anthony Towns	82	32.0	18.3	2.8	7.7	10.5	2.0	0.7	1.7	2.2	3.0	7.6	14.1	.542	0.4	1.1	.341	2.7	3.4	.811
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Derik Queen nor Karl-Anthony Towns played in the postseason in their season 1

Additional Years
* Karl-Anthony Towns played 10 seasons more than Derik Queen in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 2 to 11, from 2017 to 2026—Karl-Anthony Towns played in 5 Playoffs. In those 10 extra years over Derik Queen, Karl-Anthony Towns got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	3 All-NBA Third Team 5 All-Star Game