Yves Missi vs. Gary Payton Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Gary Payton and Yves Missi, 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.

Yves Missi played 1 year in the NBA, 16 less than Gary Payton, who played 17. Yves Missi had his first NBA Season in 2024-25, while Gary Payton had his rookie season in 1990-91. 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
	Yves Missi	Gary Payton
Season	2024-25	1990-91
Team	New Orleans Pelicans	Seattle Supersonics
Honors & Awards	All-Rookie Second Team	All-Rookie Second Team
Playoffs	Did Not Play	Supersonics Lost West Conf 1st Rd

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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		%
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
difference:	+9	+0.6	+1.9	+2.2	+3.1	+5.2	+5.0	+1.5	+1.1	-1.1	-1.0	+0.5	+0.3	+.097		+0.2		+0.9	+1.6	+.088
Gary Payton	82	27.4	7.2	1.3	1.6	3.0	6.4	2.0	0.2	2.2	3.0	3.2	7.0	.450	0.0	0.2	.077	0.8	1.2	.711
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Yves Missi	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Gary Payton	5	27.0	4.8	1.0	1.6	2.6	6.4	1.6	0.2	1.8	3.2	2.2	5.4	.407	0.0	0.2	.000	0.4	0.4	1.000

Additional Years
* Gary Payton played 16 seasons more than Yves Missi in the NBA. In that period—his seasons 2 to 17, from 1992 to 2007—Gary Payton played in 14 Playoffs and won one NBA Championship. In those 16 extra years over Yves Missi, Gary Payton got these achievements:
Honors & Awards	2 All-NBA First Team 5 All-NBA Second Team 2 All-NBA Third Team 9 All-Defensive First Team 1 Defensive Player of the Year 1 Steals Leader 9 All-Star Game