Keegan Murray vs. Dwyane Wade Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Dwyane Wade and Keegan Murray, 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.

Keegan Murray played 3 years in the NBA, 13 less than Dwyane Wade, who played 16. Keegan Murray had the first of his seasons in 2022-23, 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
	Keegan Murray	Dwyane Wade
Season	2022-23	2003-04
Team	Sacramento Kings	Miami Heat
Honors & Awards	All-Rookie First Team	All-Rookie First Team
Playoffs	Kings Lost West Conf 1st Rd	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		%
Keegan Murray	80	29.8	12.2	1.1	3.5	4.6	1.2	0.8	0.5	0.8	2.0	4.4	9.8	.453	2.6	6.3	.411	0.8	1.0	.765
difference:	+19	+5.1	+4.0	+0.3	+0.8	+0.6	+3.3	+0.6	+0.1	-2.4	-0.3	+1.7	+3.3	+.012	+2.3	+5.4	+.109	+3.0	+4.1	+.018
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		%
Keegan Murray	7	27.7	9.7	2.1	4.1	6.3	0.7	0.6	0.3	0.6	2.6	3.7	8.3	.448	1.7	4.6	.375	0.6	0.9	.667
difference:	+6	+11.8	+8.3	+0.9	+1.3	+2.3	+4.9	+0.7		-3.6	-0.9	+2.9	+6.2	+.007	+1.5	+4.0		+3.9	+4.9	+.120
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
	Keegan Murray	Dwyane Wade
Season	2023-24	2004-05
Team	Sacramento Kings	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		%
Keegan Murray	77	33.6	15.2	1.4	4.1	5.5	1.7	1.0	0.8	0.8	2.7	5.8	12.7	.454	2.4	6.6	.358	1.3	1.6	.831
difference:		+5.0	+8.9		+0.4	+0.3	+5.1	+0.6	+0.3	-3.4	-0.3	+2.4	+4.4	+.024	+2.2	+6.0	+.069	+6.2	+8.3	+.069
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		%
Keegan Murray	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

Season 3
	Keegan Murray	Dwyane Wade
Season	2024-25	2005-06
Team	Sacramento Kings	Miami Heat
Honors & Awards	-	Finals MVP
	-	All-NBA Second Team
	-	All-Star Game
Playoffs	Did Not Play	NBA Champion

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3rd Season Stats Comparison
Regular Season Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Keegan Murray	76	34.3	12.4	1.9	4.8	6.7	1.4	0.8	0.9	0.8	2.4	4.8	10.8	.444	2.0	5.9	.343	0.8	0.9	.833
difference:	+1	+4.3	+14.8	+0.5	+0.5	+1.0	+5.3	+1.1	+0.1	-2.8	-0.5	+4.5	+8.0	+.051	+1.8	+4.9	+.172	+7.6	+9.8	+.050
Dwyane Wade	75	38.6	27.2	1.4	4.3	5.7	6.7	1.9	0.8	3.6	2.9	9.3	18.8	.495	0.2	1.0	.171	8.4	10.7	.783
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Keegan Murray	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Dwyane Wade	23	41.7	28.4	1.2	4.7	5.9	5.7	2.2	1.1	3.9	3.1	9.5	19.2	.497	0.6	1.6	.378	8.8	10.9	.808

Additional Years
* Dwyane Wade played 13 seasons more than Keegan Murray in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 4 to 16, from 2007 to 2019—Dwyane Wade played in 10 Playoffs and won two NBA Championships. In those 13 extra years over Keegan Murray, Dwyane Wade got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	2 All-NBA First Team 1 All-NBA Second Team 3 All-NBA Third Team 2 All-Defensive Second Team 1 Scoring Leader 11 All-Star Game 1 All-Star Game MVP