http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/Rookies-130228/new-top-10 Rank Player 1 Anthony Davis 2 Damian Lillard 3 Bradley Beal 4 Andrew Nicholson 5 Andre Drummond 6 Dion Waiters 7 Michael Kidd-Gilchrist 8 Brian Roberts 9 Tyler Zeller 10 Kyle Singler
Whatever.... they've been wanting to do that all year. Fuck espn Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
BFD! ESPN doesn't determine ROY, voters do. And the very first thing voters look at is: Damian Lillard: 18.5ppg Anthony Davis: 12.5ppg Game over. Never in the history of ROY voting has someone won the award over another player who is averaging nearly 50% more points per game. In terms of overall production, Lillard and Davis are currently tied at EFF = 16.7. Unless Davis totally blows Lillard away in total production, the award will go to the player who is scoring 6 more ppg, has played more games, and has been leading his team to more wins. This ESPN opinion piece changes nothing. BNM
Seriously, it's like they had this penciled in from the start and numbers be damned. Pretty hilarious. How many rookie of the months has Davis won, by the way?
Damian has nothing to worry about. He'll keep going and have it wrapped up very soon. ROY = Damian Lillard.
That makes sense, but I doubt that you checked. You'd have to run a Basketball-Reference about 65 times, once for each NBA season, sorting each year's rookies by ppg.
Sportswriters vote but I don't think ESPN specifically. One of their bloggers that also covers a NBA team might get a vote though. Remember when Roy was 1 vote away from unanimous? The TOR beat writer is the one who didn't vote for him.
I think that Davis playing both ends helped him here. Lillard scored well, per usual, but was lit up this month: Rubio: 15 pts | 14 ast | 4-9 FG J. Lin: 15 pts | 4 ast | 6-10 FG Nelson: 14 pts | 15 ast | 2 TO Dragic: 16 pts | 18 ast | 5-13 FG Lawson: 30 pts | 6 ast | 12-22 FG A lot shot well above their season average outside Nelson.
