Pau Gasol vs. Yves Missi Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Yves Missi and Pau Gasol, 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.

Pau Gasol played 18 years in the NBA, 17 more than Yves Missi, who played 1. Pau Gasol had the first of his seasons in 2001-02, while Yves Missi had his rookie season in 2024-25. 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
	Pau Gasol	Yves Missi
Season	2001-02	2024-25
Team	Memphis Grizzlies	New Orleans Pelicans
Honors & Awards	Rookie of the Year	-
	All-Rookie First Team	-
	-	All-Rookie Second 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		%
Pau Gasol	82	36.7	17.6	2.9	6.0	8.9	2.7	0.5	2.1	2.7	2.4	6.7	13.0	.518	0.0	0.1	.200	4.1	5.8	.709
difference:	+9	+9.9	+8.5	+0.6	+1.3	+0.7	+1.3		+0.8	-1.6	-0.4	+3.0	+6.3	+.029		+0.1		+2.4	+3.0	+.086
Yves Missi	73	26.8	9.1	3.5	4.7	8.2	1.4	0.5	1.3	1.1	2.0	3.7	6.7	.547	0.0	0.0	-	1.7	2.8	.623
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Pau Gasol nor Yves Missi played in the postseason in their season 1

Additional Years
* Pau Gasol played 17 seasons more than Yves Missi in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 2 to 18, from 2003 to 2019—Pau Gasol played in 12 Playoffs and won two NBA Championships. In those 17 extra years over Yves Missi, Pau Gasol got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	2 All-NBA Second Team 2 All-NBA Third Team 6 All-Star Game