Ray Allen vs. Austin Reaves Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Austin Reaves and Ray Allen, 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.

Ray Allen played 18 years in the NBA, 14 more than Austin Reaves, who played 4. Ray Allen had the first of his seasons in 1996-97, while Austin Reaves had his rookie season in 2021-22. 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
	Ray Allen	Austin Reaves
Season	1996-97	2021-22
Team	Milwaukee Bucks	Los Angeles Lakers
Honors & Awards	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		%
Ray Allen	82	30.9	13.4	1.2	2.8	4.0	2.6	0.9	0.1	1.8	2.7	4.8	11.1	.430	1.4	3.6	.393	2.5	3.0	.823
difference:	+21	+7.7	+6.1	+0.5	+0.4	+0.8	+0.8	+0.4	+0.2	-1.1	-1.3	+2.4	+5.9	+.029	+0.5	+0.9	+.076	+0.9	+1.1	+.016
Austin Reaves	61	23.2	7.3	0.7	2.4	3.2	1.8	0.5	0.3	0.7	1.4	2.4	5.2	.459	0.9	2.7	.317	1.6	1.9	.839
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Ray Allen nor Austin Reaves played in the postseason in their season 1

Season 3
	Ray Allen	Austin Reaves
Season	1998-99	2023-24
Team	Milwaukee Bucks	Los Angeles Lakers
Honors & Awards
Playoffs	Bucks Lost East Conf 1st Rd	Lakers Lost West Conf 1st Rd
Others	-	NBA Cup 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		%
Ray Allen	50	34.4	17.1	1.1	3.1	4.2	3.6	1.1	0.1	2.4	2.3	6.1	13.5	.450	1.5	4.2	.356	3.5	3.9	.903
difference:	+32	+2.3	+1.2	+0.4	+0.5	+0.1	+1.9	+0.3	+0.2	-0.3	-0.4	+0.5	+2.0	+.036	+0.4	+0.9	+.011	+0.7	+0.6	+.050
Austin Reaves	82	32.1	15.9	0.7	3.6	4.3	5.5	0.8	0.3	2.1	1.9	5.6	11.5	.486	1.9	5.1	.367	2.8	3.3	.853
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Ray Allen	3	40.0	22.3	2.7	4.7	7.3	4.3	1.0	0.3	3.7	3.0	8.3	15.7	.532	3.0	6.3	.474	2.7	4.3	.615
difference:	+2	+5.2	+5.5	+1.7	+1.9	+3.5	+0.7	+0.4	+0.3	-2.9	-1.4	+2.3	+3.1	+.056	+1.6	+1.1	+.205	+0.7	+0.5	+.280
Austin Reaves	5	34.8	16.8	1.0	2.8	3.8	3.6	1.4	0.6	0.8	1.6	6.0	12.6	.476	1.4	5.2	.269	3.4	3.8	.895

Season 4
	Ray Allen	Austin Reaves
Season	1999-00	2024-25
Team	Milwaukee Bucks	Los Angeles Lakers
Honors & Awards	All-Star Game	-
Playoffs	Bucks Lost East Conf 1st Rd	Lakers Lost West Conf 1st Rd

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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		%
Ray Allen	82	37.4	22.1	1.0	3.4	4.4	3.8	1.3	0.2	2.2	2.3	7.8	17.2	.455	2.1	5.0	.423	4.3	4.9	.887
difference:	+9	+2.5	+1.9	+0.2	+0.3	+0.1	+2.0	+0.2	+0.1	-0.2	-0.2	+1.3	+3.0	+.005	+0.6	+2.3	+.046	+0.1	+0.1	+.010
Austin Reaves	73	34.9	20.2	0.8	3.7	4.5	5.8	1.1	0.3	2.4	2.1	6.5	14.2	.460	2.7	7.3	.377	4.4	5.0	.877
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Ray Allen	5	37.4	22.0	2.0	4.6	6.6	2.6	1.6	0.0	1.8	2.0	8.0	18.0	.444	2.0	5.2	.385	4.0	4.4	.909
difference:		+1.8	+5.8	+1.2		+1.2	+1.0	+1.4	+0.6	-1.0	-1.6	+2.0	+3.4	+.033	+1.0	+4.2	+.066	+2.8	+3.0	+.052
Austin Reaves	5	39.2	16.2	0.8	4.6	5.4	3.6	0.2	0.6	2.8	3.6	6.0	14.6	.411	3.0	9.4	.319	1.2	1.4	.857

Additional Years
* Ray Allen played 14 seasons more than Austin Reaves in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 5 to 18, from 2001 to 2014—Ray Allen played in 9 Playoffs and won two NBA Championships. In those 14 extra years over Austin Reaves, Ray Allen got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	1 All-NBA Second Team 1 All-NBA Third Team 9 All-Star Game