Yao Ming vs. Yves Missi Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Yves Missi and Yao Ming, 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.

Yao Ming played 8 years in the NBA, 7 more than Yves Missi, who played 1. Yao Ming had the first of his seasons in 2002-03, 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
	Yao Ming	Yves Missi
Season	2002-03	2024-25
Team	Houston Rockets	New Orleans Pelicans
Honors & Awards	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		%
Yao Ming	82	29.0	13.5	2.4	5.8	8.2	1.7	0.4	1.8	2.1	2.8	4.9	9.8	.498	0.0	0.0	-	3.7	4.5	.811
difference:	+9	+2.2	+4.4	+1.1	+1.1		+0.3	+0.1	+0.5	-1.0	-0.8	+1.2	+3.1	+.049				+2.0	+1.7	+.188
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 Yao Ming nor Yves Missi played in the postseason in their season 1

Additional Years
* Yao Ming played 7 seasons more than Yves Missi in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 2 to 8, from 2004 to 2011—Yao Ming played in 4 Playoffs. In those 7 extra years over Yves Missi, Yao Ming got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	2 All-NBA Second Team 3 All-NBA Third Team 7 All-Star Game