Mikal Bridges vs. Brook Lopez Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Brook Lopez and Mikal Bridges, 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.

Mikal Bridges played 8 years in the NBA, 10 less than Brook Lopez, who played 18. Mikal Bridges had the first of his seasons in 2018-19, while Brook Lopez had his rookie season in 2008-09. 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
	Mikal Bridges	Brook Lopez
Season	2018-19	2008-09
Team	Phoenix Suns	New Jersey Nets
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		%
Mikal Bridges	82	29.5	8.3	0.7	2.5	3.2	2.1	1.6	0.5	0.9	2.5	3.0	6.9	.430	1.3	3.8	.335	1.2	1.4	.805
difference:		+1.0	+4.7	+2.0	+2.9	+4.9	+1.1	+1.1	+1.3	-0.9	-0.6	+2.5	+3.4	+.101	+1.3	+3.8		+0.9	+1.2	+.012
Brook Lopez	82	30.5	13.0	2.7	5.4	8.1	1.0	0.5	1.8	1.8	3.1	5.5	10.3	.531	0.0	0.0	-	2.1	2.6	.793
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Mikal Bridges nor Brook Lopez played in the postseason in their season 1

Season 4
	Mikal Bridges	Brook Lopez
Season	2021-22	2011-12
Team	Phoenix Suns	New Jersey Nets
Honors & Awards	All-Defensive First Team	-
Playoffs	Suns Lost West Conf Semis	Did Not Play

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4th Season Stats Comparison
Regular Season Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Mikal Bridges	82	34.8	14.2	0.9	3.3	4.2	2.3	1.2	0.4	0.8	1.8	5.6	10.5	.534	1.4	3.8	.369	1.6	1.9	.834
difference:	+77	+7.6	+5.0	+0.7	+1.3	+0.6	+1.1	+1.0	+0.4	-0.4	-0.2	+2.0	+4.9	+.040	+1.4	+3.8		+2.4	+4.5	+.209
Brook Lopez	5	27.2	19.2	1.6	2.0	3.6	1.2	0.2	0.8	1.2	1.6	7.6	15.4	.494	0.0	0.0	-	4.0	6.4	.625
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Mikal Bridges	13	38.5	13.3	0.9	3.8	4.7	2.8	1.1	1.0	0.8	2.4	5.1	10.6	.478	1.0	2.5	.394	2.2	2.3	.933
Brook Lopez	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Season 5
	Mikal Bridges	Brook Lopez
Season	2022-23	2012-13
Team	Phoenix Suns, Brooklyn Nets	Brooklyn Nets
Honors & Awards	-	All-Star Game
Playoffs	Nets Lost East Conf 1st Rd	Nets Lost East Conf 1st Rd

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5th Season Stats Comparison
Regular Season Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Mikal Bridges	83	35.7	20.1	1.0	3.4	4.4	3.3	1.1	0.7	1.5	1.9	7.1	15.3	.468	2.0	5.3	.382	3.8	4.3	.895
difference:	+9	+5.3	+0.7	+1.8	+0.7	+2.5	+2.4	+0.7	+1.4	-0.3	-0.2	+0.6	+0.5	+.053	+2.0	+5.3		+0.2	+1.0	+.137
Brook Lopez	74	30.4	19.4	2.8	4.1	6.9	0.9	0.4	2.1	1.8	2.1	7.7	14.8	.521	0.0	0.0	-	4.0	5.3	.758
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Mikal Bridges	4	39.3	23.5	0.5	4.8	5.3	4.0	0.5	0.5	2.0	1.3	8.3	19.3	.429	2.5	6.3	.400	4.5	5.8	.783
difference:	+3	+1.7	+1.2	+3.6	+1.5	+2.1	+2.6	+0.4	+2.5	-0.3	-1.6		+1.7	+.043	+2.4	+6.2	+.600	+1.1	+0.5	+.103
Brook Lopez	7	37.6	22.3	4.1	3.3	7.4	1.4	0.9	3.0	2.3	2.9	8.3	17.6	.472	0.1	0.1	1.000	5.6	6.3	.886

Additional Years
* Brook Lopez played 10 seasons more than Mikal Bridges in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 9 to 18, from 2017 to 2026—Brook Lopez played in 7 Playoffs and won one NBA Championship and one NBA Cup. In those 10 extra years over Mikal Bridges, Brook Lopez got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	1 All-Defensive First Team 1 All-Defensive Second Team