NBA.com Poll: Most Impressive Rookie This Season

OverRRated · Dec 5, 2002

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I hate to be a punk about this, and I'm not even a Duke-hater, but I'm kinda glad Jay Williams is lagging in this poll. Everyone thought he was going to be the next best thing since pre-lubed prophylactics. Of course he's on a bad team in a system that doesn't fit him. But when I read a recent article about how he would trash-talk Gilbert Arenas in college ("you should be afraid of me"---spoiled brat), and then get lit up by Arenas in both college and the pros, well, I'll take humble Yao Ming any day.
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AMEN.
I hated(annoyed) hearing that Ming would be a bust, and Williams was the correct selection for us.

Good post heypartner.

codell · Dec 5, 2002

Originally posted by heypartner
No one need apply except Bird and Magic, and possibly Russell.

No one has ever won a title and Finals MVP in their rookie year except Magic Johnson. However, Bird won ROY that year though.

Magic was coming to a 47 win team with Jabbar. Bird didn't have as good a team, but he was the sole new starter to turn e a 29 win team into 61 wins. He lost in the Conf Finals, though.

No other players come close to that. Russell won a title playing half a season, but he had the reigning MVP as a teammate and Heinsohn won the ROY in that year. I take Bird's year over that, and Magic takes the cake.
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I could have swore there was a player in NBA history who won the ROY and the regular season MVP in the same season. Perhaps Im thinking of Fred Lynn in baseball.

WinkFan · Dec 5, 2002

Originally posted by Fegwu
The irony of all this is that if Yao happens to be leading the poll for the rookie of the year come April his detractors will then tell us that he is "not really a rookie" since he has played in the CBA, Olympic and World Championship (The Ichiro Logic).
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That won't happen. Yao is only 22, and nobody said anything about Gasol having played pro ball.

ron413 · Dec 5, 2002

Latest results after 200,000+ votes:

Which rookie has impressed you the most so far this season?

Yao Ming - 60%
Dajuan Wagner - 13%
Caron Butler - 8%
Drew Gooden - 7%
Jay Williams - 6%
Amare Stoudemire - 4%
Other - 2%

Total Responses: 209360

fatfatcow · Dec 5, 2002

if there is an advertisement of this vote in China his vote can get to a billion in few days if the nba server can take it lol
i am wondering how many vote yao will get in total for the all star vote i think his vote from fans will set the highest record ever!!! properly 100 million votes!!!

jeremyang2002 · Dec 6, 2002

the poll link is posted all over China's sports websites.

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