On April 24, Beijing time, the NBA officially announced that Raptors player Scotty Barnes won the best rookie of the season. No. 4 Barnes played in 74 regular season games, all starting. He averaged 35.4 minutes per game and had 15.3 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.7 blocks, shooting 49.2%, 30.1% and 73.5% from three fields.
Looking at the final score, Barnes got 48 first-place votes and Mobley got 43, very close. In the end, Barnes scored a total of 378 points and Mobley scored 363 points. Mobley and Barnes have only a 15-point difference, the smallest gap between the first and second since the NBA changed the selection mechanism in 2003.
Tanhua Mobley played 69 games for the Cavaliers, starting all of them. He averaged 33.8 minutes per game and had 15 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 0.8 steals and 1.7 blocks, shooting 51%, 25% and 65.9% from three fields. Unfortunately, the Cavaliers have a poor record, falling from the top three in the East to the eighth, losing two consecutive losses in the playoffs, and the Raptors are fifth in the East.
Canning was placed third, and Jaylen Green was fourth. The top four of the 2021 draft, and finally the top four of the best rookie vote, the future can be expected!