Keegan Murray vs. Jayson Tatum Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Jayson Tatum 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, 5 less than Jayson Tatum, who played 8. Keegan Murray had the first of his seasons in 2022-23, while Jayson Tatum had his rookie season in 2017-18. 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	Jayson Tatum
Season	2022-23	2017-18
Team	Sacramento Kings	Boston Celtics
Honors & Awards	All-Rookie First Team	All-Rookie First Team
Playoffs	Kings Lost West Conf 1st Rd	Celtics Lost East Conf Finals

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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:		+0.7	+1.7	+0.5	+0.9	+0.4	+0.4	+0.2	+0.2	-0.6	-0.1	+0.6	+0.6	+.022	+1.3	+3.3	+.023	+1.9	+2.2	+.061
Jayson Tatum	80	30.5	13.9	0.6	4.4	5.0	1.6	1.0	0.7	1.4	2.1	5.0	10.4	.475	1.3	3.0	.434	2.7	3.2	.826
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:	+12	+8.2	+8.8	+1.6	+0.3	+1.9	+2.0	+0.6	+0.2	-1.6		+2.8	+5.4	+.023	+0.5	+0.9	+.051	+3.7	+4.2	+.178
Jayson Tatum	19	35.9	18.5	0.5	3.8	4.4	2.7	1.2	0.5	2.2	2.6	6.5	13.7	.471	1.2	3.7	.324	4.3	5.1	.845

Season 3
	Keegan Murray	Jayson Tatum
Season	2024-25	2019-20
Team	Sacramento Kings	Boston Celtics
Honors & Awards	-	All-NBA Third Team
	-	All-Star Game
Playoffs	Did Not Play	Celtics Lost East Conf Finals

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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:	+10		+11.0	+0.9	+1.2	+0.3	+1.6	+0.6		-1.5	-0.3	+3.6	+7.8	+.006	+0.9	+1.2	+.060	+3.0	+3.8	+.021
Jayson Tatum	66	34.3	23.4	1.0	6.0	7.0	3.0	1.4	0.9	2.3	2.1	8.4	18.6	.450	2.9	7.1	.403	3.8	4.7	.812
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Keegan Murray	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jayson Tatum	17	40.6	25.7	1.3	8.7	10.0	5.0	1.0	1.2	2.8	2.4	8.5	19.6	.434	2.8	7.4	.373	5.9	7.2	.813

Additional Years
* Jayson Tatum played 5 seasons more than Keegan Murray in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 4 to 8, from 2021 to 2025—Jayson Tatum played in 5 Playoffs and won one NBA Championship. In those 5 extra years over Keegan Murray, Jayson Tatum got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	4 All-NBA First Team 5 All-Star Game 1 All-Star Game MVP