Rick Barry vs. Amen Thompson Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Amen Thompson and Rick Barry, 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.

Rick Barry played 10 years in the NBA, 8 more than Amen Thompson, who played 2. Rick Barry had the first of his seasons in 1965-66, while Amen Thompson had his rookie season in 2023-24. 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
	Rick Barry	Amen Thompson
Season	1965-66	2023-24
Team	San Francisco Warriors	Houston Rockets
Honors & Awards	All-NBA First Team	-
	Rookie of the Year	-
	All-Rookie First Team	-
	-	All-Rookie Second Team
	All-Star Game	-
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		%
Rick Barry	80	37.4	25.7	-	-	10.6	2.2	-	-	-	3.7	9.3	21.2	.439	-	-	-	7.1	8.3	.862
difference:	+18	+15.0	+16.2			+4.0	+0.4				-1.4	+5.4	+14.0	+.097				+5.4	+5.8	+.178
Amen Thompson	62	22.4	9.5	2.4	4.2	6.6	2.6	1.3	0.6	1.5	2.3	3.9	7.2	.536	0.1	0.9	.138	1.7	2.5	.684
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Rick Barry nor Amen Thompson played in the postseason in their season 1

Season 2
	Rick Barry	Amen Thompson
Season	1966-67	2024-25
Team	San Francisco Warriors	Houston Rockets
Honors & Awards	All-NBA First Team	-
	-	All-Defensive First Team
	Scoring Leader	-
	All-Star Game	-
	All-Star Game MVP	-
Playoffs	Warriors Lost NBA Finals	Rockets Lost West Conf 1st Rd

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2nd Season Stats Comparison
Regular Season Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Rick Barry	78	40.7	35.6	-	-	9.2	3.6	-	-	-	3.3	13.0	28.7	.451	-	-	-	9.7	10.9	.884
difference:	+9	+8.5	+21.5			+1.0	+0.2				-0.9	+7.4	+18.6	+.106				+7.3	+7.3	+.200
Amen Thompson	69	32.2	14.1	2.8	5.4	8.2	3.8	1.4	1.3	2.0	2.4	5.6	10.1	.557	0.4	1.3	.275	2.4	3.6	.684
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Rick Barry	15	40.9	34.7	-	-	7.5	3.9	-	-	-	3.3	13.1	32.6	.403	-	-	-	8.5	10.5	.809
difference:	+8	+7.9	+19.0			+0.6	+0.6				-0.7	+7.1	+20.5	+.091				+4.9	+5.4	+.115
Amen Thompson	7	33.0	15.7	2.7	4.1	6.9	3.3	1.7	0.9	1.7	2.6	6.0	12.1	.494	0.1	0.6	.250	3.6	5.1	.694

Additional Years
* Rick Barry played 8 seasons more than Amen Thompson in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 3 to 10, from 1973 to 1980—Rick Barry played in 6 Playoffs and won one NBA Championship. In those 8 extra years over Amen Thompson, Rick Barry got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	1 Finals MVP 3 All-NBA First Team 1 All-NBA Second Team 1 Steals Leader 6 All-Star Game