Richard Hamilton vs. Payton Pritchard Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Payton Pritchard and Richard Hamilton, 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.

Richard Hamilton played 14 years in the NBA, 8 more than Payton Pritchard, who played 6. Richard Hamilton had the first of his seasons in 1999-00, while Payton Pritchard had his rookie season in 2020-21. 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.

Season 4
	Richard Hamilton	Payton Pritchard
Season	2002-03	2023-24
Team	Detroit Pistons	Boston Celtics
Honors & Awards
Playoffs	Pistons Lost East Conf Finals	NBA Champion

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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		%
Richard Hamilton	82	32.2	19.7	1.1	2.8	3.9	2.5	0.8	0.2	2.4	3.0	7.0	15.7	.443	0.4	1.5	.269	5.4	6.4	.833
difference:		+9.9	+10.1	+0.2	+0.4	+0.7	+0.9	+0.3	+0.1	-1.7	-1.7	+3.4	+8.0	+.025	+1.4	+3.2	+.116	+4.8	+5.7	+.012
Payton Pritchard	82	22.3	9.6	0.9	2.4	3.2	3.4	0.5	0.1	0.7	1.3	3.6	7.7	.468	1.8	4.7	.385	0.6	0.7	.821
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Richard Hamilton	17	38.7	22.5	1.1	2.8	3.9	2.6	0.8	0.1	3.4	3.0	7.9	17.8	.442	0.5	1.6	.333	6.2	6.9	.906
difference:	+2	+20.0	+16.1	+0.4	+1.6	+2.0	+0.5	+0.6	+0.1	-2.7	-1.8	+5.6	+12.3	+.023	+0.7	+1.6	+.050	+5.6	+6.3	+.011
Payton Pritchard	19	18.7	6.4	0.7	1.2	1.9	2.1	0.2	0.0	0.7	1.2	2.3	5.5	.419	1.2	3.2	.383	0.6	0.6	.917

Season 5
	Richard Hamilton	Payton Pritchard
Season	2003-04	2024-25
Team	Detroit Pistons	Boston Celtics
Honors & Awards	-	Sixth Man of the Year
Playoffs	NBA Champion	Celtics Lost East Conf Semis

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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		%
Richard Hamilton	78	35.5	17.6	1.0	2.6	3.6	4.0	1.3	0.2	2.7	2.8	6.8	14.9	.455	0.2	0.9	.265	3.8	4.4	.868
difference:	+2	+7.1	+3.3	+0.3		+0.2	+0.5	+0.4		-1.7	-1.3	+1.7	+4.1	+.017	+3.0	+6.9	+.142	+2.9	+3.3	+.023
Payton Pritchard	80	28.4	14.3	1.3	2.6	3.8	3.5	0.9	0.2	1.0	1.5	5.1	10.8	.472	3.2	7.8	.407	0.9	1.1	.845
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Richard Hamilton	23	40.6	21.5	1.4	3.2	4.6	4.2	1.2	0.0	3.1	3.1	7.9	17.6	.447	0.7	1.7	.385	5.1	6.0	.848
difference:	+12	+13.1	+9.6	+0.6	+1.7	+2.3	+2.7	+0.7		-2.3	-1.4	+3.8	+8.6	+.008	+1.8	+4.4	+.018	+3.8	+4.5	+.024
Payton Pritchard	11	27.5	11.9	0.8	1.5	2.3	1.5	0.5	0.0	0.8	1.7	4.1	9.0	.455	2.5	6.1	.403	1.3	1.5	.824

Additional Years
* Richard Hamilton played 8 seasons more than Payton Pritchard in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 7 to 14, from 2006 to 2013—Richard Hamilton played in 6 Playoffs. In those 8 extra years over Payton Pritchard, Richard Hamilton got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	3 All-Star Game