Shaquille O'Neal vs. Victor Wembanyama Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Victor Wembanyama and Shaquille O'Neal, 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.

Shaquille O'Neal played 19 years in the NBA, 17 more than Victor Wembanyama, who played 2. Shaquille O'Neal had the first of his seasons in 1992-93, while Victor Wembanyama 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
	Shaquille O'Neal	Victor Wembanyama
Season	1992-93	2023-24
Team	Orlando Magic	San Antonio Spurs
Honors & Awards	-	All-Defensive First Team
	Rookie of the Year	Rookie of the Year
	All-Rookie First Team	All-Rookie First Team
	-	Blocks Leader
	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		%
Shaquille O'Neal	81	37.9	23.4	4.2	9.6	13.9	1.9	0.7	3.5	3.8	4.0	9.0	16.1	.562	0.0	0.0	-	5.3	8.9	.592
difference:	+10	+8.2	+2.0	+1.9	+1.2	+3.3	+2.0	+0.5	+0.1	-0.1	-1.8	+1.2	+0.6	+.097	+1.8	+5.5		+1.2	+3.7	+.204
Victor Wembanyama	71	29.7	21.4	2.3	8.4	10.6	3.9	1.2	3.6	3.7	2.2	7.8	16.7	.465	1.8	5.5	.325	4.1	5.2	.796
Playoffs Stats
* Neiher Shaquille O'Neal nor Victor Wembanyama played in the postseason in their season 1

Season 2
	Shaquille O'Neal	Victor Wembanyama
Season	1993-94	2024-25
Team	Orlando Magic	San Antonio Spurs
Honors & Awards	All-NBA Third Team	-
	-	Blocks Leader
	All-Star Game	All-Star Game
Playoffs	Magic Lost East Conf 1st Rd	Did Not Play

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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		%
Shaquille O'Neal	81	39.8	29.3	4.7	8.5	13.2	2.4	0.9	2.9	2.7	3.5	11.8	19.6	.599	0.0	0.0	-	5.8	10.5	.554
difference:	+35	+6.6	+5.0	+2.9	+0.7	+2.2	+1.3	+0.2	+0.9	-0.5	-1.2	+2.9	+1.0	+.123	+3.1	+8.8		+2.4	+6.4	+.282
Victor Wembanyama	46	33.2	24.3	1.8	9.2	11.0	3.7	1.1	3.8	3.2	2.3	8.9	18.6	.476	3.1	8.8	.352	3.4	4.1	.836
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Shaquille O'Neal	3	42.0	20.7	5.7	7.7	13.3	2.3	0.7	3.0	3.3	4.3	7.7	15.0	.511	0.0	0.0	-	5.3	11.3	.471
Victor Wembanyama	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Additional Years
* Shaquille O'Neal played 17 seasons more than Victor Wembanyama in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 3 to 19, from 1995 to 2011—Shaquille O'Neal played in 16 Playoffs and won 4 NBA Championships. In those 17 extra years over Victor Wembanyama, Shaquille O'Neal got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	3 Finals MVP 1 Season MVP 8 All-NBA First Team 2 All-NBA Second Team 3 All-NBA Third Team 3 All-Defensive Second Team 2 Scoring Leader 13 All-Star Game 3 All-Star Game MVP