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Big-time collegiate and international players were selected in the 2022 NBA Draft. Plenty of these players are going to be expected to carry a heavy load on their teams early on in their careers. The NBA Rookie of the Year award is usually a strong indicator of a great career coming up, with recent examples […] READ MORE
This year’s NBA draft class is one of the deepest draft classes in recent memory. The top five draft picks have garnered a lot of attention, but that has left a lot of the other rookies to fall off the radar. With how good these three rookies are, it would not be shocking to see […] READ MORE
The 2021 NBA Draft class has been proclaimed the best draft class since 2003. That draft class consisted of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, and Chris Bosh. While rookie of the year is always a hard award to decide, this year should be more difficult than usual. Will it be consensus number one overall […] READ MORE
Entering the final games of the pandemic-shortened 2020 NBA season, Ja Morant is the heavy favorite to win the league’s Rookie of the Year award. With only eight games and 22 teams invited to the NBA Disney Bubble in Orlando, Fla., it’s unlikely to see any late-season pushes for awards. The rest of the top […] READ MORE
Although ranking the top 30 NBA players in today’s game is an incredibly difficult task, The Last Word on Pro Basketball staff has taken it on. Debuting at number 16 in the countdown is Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns. Top 30 NBA Players Number 16 – Karl-Anthony Towns After a stellar freshman season at the […] READ MORE
Last Word on Basketball has taken the difficult task of ranking the top 30 NBA players in the world right now. There were many candidates for the top 30 NBA players and many noticeable names did not make the list. One player who made this list was Chris Paul, a point guard for the Oklahoma […] READ MORE
The NBA Rookie of the Year race is heating up with less than two months left in the regular season. Zion Williamson is red-hot for the New Orleans Pelicans but with less than two dozen games played so far due to injury, does the NBA Draft’s number one pick get the award for a limited […] READ MORE