This season is known as the "Rookie Year", although all the rookie players this season have not produced a supernova like James, but the overall strength of this rookie is still very good. The rookie players with the top 4 picks each became the core players of the team. Pistons Cunningham, Rockets' Jaylen Green, Cavaliers' Mobley and Raptors No. 4 rookie Barnes have been reassuring this season.
Even role players like the Pelicans' second-round rookie Herbert Jones and the Bulls' Dawsom can occupy important positions on their respective teams. On April 24, Beijing time, following the best defensive player, the NBA Best Rookie Award of the season has also been officially released, and Scotty Barnes, a forward from the Raptors, defeated the Cavaliers' center Mobley by a slight margin to become the best rookie winner!
In fact, in the previous nominations, Jaylen Green was not selected. Cunningham, Mobley and Barnes were nominated. The best rookie is already famous, but fans must be very concerned about the final vote problem, except for Barnes, what is the vote count and final ranking of other rookie players? Let's take a look at the final votes and rankings.
Let's start with Barnes and Mobley. Barnes got 48 1st votes, 43 2rd votes, and 9 3rd votes, bringing the total to 378 points. Mobley's final total score was 363, just 15 points away from Barnes. Pistons champion Cunningham received nine No. 1 votes, and the final score was 153 points. Looking at the Rockets' Jaylen Green, the 20-year-old Green has played a huge star in the last few games of the season, but still has not been able to get too much favor in the voting.
In the end, the Rockets' Jaylen Green won 1 second-place vote, and the total score was only 3 points to rank fourth. The Magic's Wagner Jr. got two 3rd-place votes, and the total score was 2 points to rank 5th. Pelicans guard Herbert Jones got a No. 1 vote, with just one point on total to be no. 6. This is the final situation of the vote, it can only be said that just looking at the performance of this season, Barnes and Mobley are in the first gear, Cunningham is in the second gear, and Green, Wagner and Jones are not much different.
For players such as Jaylen Green and Wagner, the performance this season is not stable enough, and their team's record is too poor, and it is normal to lose. The most unfortunate thing should be the Cavaliers center Mobley. In fact, in this season's rookie rankings, Mobley has been in the first place most of the time, but the Cavaliers have lost too many games at the end of the season, and Mobley's performance is not as brilliant as before, plus Mobley's Cavaliers are out of the playoffs qualifiers, and Barnes' Raptors have successfully entered the playoffs, so Barnes's pressure on Mobley should be regarded as "deserved".
Although there are no particularly top-notch players in this rookie, on the whole, the strength of this rookie is very strong overall, giving them enough time to believe that there will be players who will grow into future superstars.