 What's the word, y'all? Welcome to the Kenny For Real All Star Week. I know we a day late, don't even think about that. Every single day we will be tackling one award and giving my personal picks and basically diving into these things. And man, man, man, I know we gonna make some people upset because this year's like no other in a sense that it seems like every single award is up in the air except for one. And that, you know what? We might not even make a full six man of the year video because what the hell are we gonna talk about other than say, here, Tyler, hero. But with every single raise being as close as it is, this is about to be a very interesting, very interesting week. I cannot wait to get into the comment section but I do want to remind everybody here that I am just a dude with a microphone that watches some basketball. My opinion is not more valid than yours or any of your favorite creators but I'm giving these awards as if I had a vote. If I had a ballot for rookie of the year who would I give my rookie of the year to? We're gonna do all rookie teams as well. So sit back, relax, and just remember, I'm just a dude with a microphone. So we're starting off rookie of the year because in my opinion, it's one of the least significant awards that we're gonna be given out. It's like that and most improved player, I guess. I mean, I'd never look at a player's resume and be like, oh, he won rookie of the year. So when it's all said and done, he's a little bit more valuable than this player because he was in the same Jeff Glass and he didn't win rookie of the year. It doesn't matter. Like when I think about rookie of the year and I have to say this 100 times, it feels like I am not projecting the value or projecting how good somebody in this draft class will be. I'm just saying based on the sample size from this rookie season, this person had the best, in my opinion. And in a year like this, there is no wrong answer as long as you narrowed it down to Evan Mobley, Kate Cunningham, and Scotty Barnes. In my opinion, they are all equally deserving of this award, but that's not the way it works, especially not in a kidney for real universe. This is not about to be a Jason Kidd, Grant Hill year. Why did that just take me so long to think about that? This is not about to be a Jason Kidd, Grant Hill year where they were cold rookie of the years. We don't do that around here. We're gonna be crowning a rookie of the year. But before we even get into all of that, I just wanna talk about this draft class because this is one of the most impressive rookie year draft classes I have seen at some time. And that's saying a lot because it feels like from 2017 until now, we keep getting rookies that come in and be impactful. Because I'm looking at it and just going through the draft class again, talking about the 60 picks and then some of the notable undrafted players, I just counted 22 players that I can say confidently are going to have a long NBA career. The level of success is up in the air. Are they gonna be good role players for 10 years? Are they gonna be superstars, all-star players? Up in the air, but I just counted 22 that I am pretty certain about. And then there are some people on the outside that could still do that thing. That's how good and how impressive of a draft class this is. And then you asking me to narrow it down to the top 10. I just told you 20, would I say 22? I just told you it's 22. And I got to narrow it down to the top 10 when it comes to all NBA teams. This is where things get a little bit interesting though. And I wonder if this is gonna be a year similar to like some of the previous years. Because we've definitely had years where all NBA or all rookie teams were more than 10 people because we got ties. In the 2012 NBA All-Star War, there were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven NBA players that were on all rookie first team because Emon Shumper, Kawhi Leonard and Brandon Knight all tied up with 40 total votes. And when I look at this, you can convince yourself of a couple different people to snag like the last three spots. Like in my opinion, the top seven people that 100% deserve to be there are locked. So we're gonna talk about that. But once we get to those last three, there are a couple of different dudes that you can convince yourself deserves to be an all-rookie team. But I just went back in history, just recent history. And here are some names that made all-rookie teams to just showcase to you how damn good this draft class is. Yogi Farrell, Langston Galloway, Kyle Singler, Tyler Zeller are all players that were all-rookie teams. I don't see this all-rookie class having names like that that was just like, we might have a couple of years in the NBA career, then we're done. And even the players in the rookie class that either didn't get a ton of PT or struggling in the rookie season, I can see some things in Jalen Suggs' games that I think will improve to make him a good player. I can see the sparks of Josh Primo when he's given PT and like he's not a conversation for all-rookie teams, but I see the game when it's shot, he hit a couple of weeks ago. I see those type of things in this draft class. And we talked about this in our Enjoy Basketball Spaces, the first official winner, you gotta follow the Enjoy Basketball Twitter account, that it just feels like these draft class are gonna continue to get deeper and deeper and deeper and better and better and better because I just feel like we are starting as such a young age as society when it comes to these players. And I've told this story before but it's very, very relevant to this topic. I have a cousin, his name is EJ. EJ just finished up his freshman season at one of the top high schools when it comes to basketball in the city of Chicago, right? When EJ was two years old, I vividly remember dude walking around the house with a basketball in his hands. He didn't know much about basketball at that point, but his father, who's one of the top point guards in Chicago basketball, high school history, had him playing basketball at that young. I remember him doing dribble drills at like four years old and by the time he was seven, eight years old, he already had a real trainer. And now he's a freshman on varsity at one of the top teams in Chicago. That is how we're doing things with these younger generations and I can just see it getting better and better and better. Like I feel like the story of a ex-person didn't pick up a basketball until he's 15 years old might be things of the past because well, these kids are starting off so very young. That's always a crazy story. And then it's like Joel and B, one of the greatest in the game, didn't pick up a basketball until he was like 14 years old which is crazy how good he became. All right, all of that is done. Let's talk about all rookie teams. In my opinion, the top five is kind of set on all a rookie first team. We at K Cunningham, we have Jalen Green. We'll talk about Jalen Green in a second. We got Scotty Barnes, Evan Mobley and Mo Wagner. That is my all rookie first team. Jalen Green stepped into the court with the Houston Rockets in this very early in his career and he struggled heavily. I'm looking at his numbers right here, his first month of basketball which is really consistent of like six or seven games. He averaged 13 points per game on 33% shooting and 28% from the field. And a lot of people were on his neck, man. And I said the same thing about Kate and I said the same thing about E-Mobile. Like these people are so highly scrutinized when it comes to the draft because well, these are the top picks. And he definitely has some comments before and after the draft about a certain city and some organizations. So he had even more people on his back that he didn't necessarily need to have if he didn't have to say these words. But since then, he's had so many opportunities and with those opportunities he's made up for, right? Where we just finished up the month of March and in that month he averaged 21 points per game on 48% shooting and 40% from three. He had to become an absolute bucket. Well, I think a lot of us knew that he was gonna be able, he is a bucket, but he's starting to show it at the NBA level. And even he said it at the end of his last game. He just finished four straight games where he put up 30 plus points. The first rookie to do that since Allen Iverson. So Jalen Green, it took him some time, but he put it together. And we're gonna talk about Kate, Scottie and Mowgli once we get to the final three of record year. So I'm gonna transition to Franz Wagner who we mentioned before in the video last where we were talking about the Orlando Magic. One of the more impressive rookies for me. He was so very polished for a guy that a lot of people questioned whether or not he'd be able to score at the NBA level. I wish he got the ball more. It feels like more times than not. He's creating a shot on some cuts and it's not a lot of times where they give him the ball and say, do you think, and if he did get that opportunity, he might be in a conversation for one of the top rookies and we're talking about him for rookie of the year. But I was so very impressed with him even though a lot of the times I feel like bro just be sitting in the corner. Shout out to him. Now when we get to the second team, there are two names that I think are absolute lock. Again, I'm just a guy with a microphone. So say what you, go ahead and send me that three paragraph long thing and talking about why I snubbed this guy and why Kenny is wrong. The first lock on all rookie second team is Herb Jones. And number two is Josh Getty. Herb Jones averaged 9.6 points per game about four rebounds or two assists. The numbers do not jump off the page whatsoever. But if you are really tuned in, you're watching Herb Jones in the Pelicans play, you can see how impactful he is as a player. We're talking about a primary defender that can be playing a guarding guards and go all the way down the fours. He ain't got it just yet to guard centers because he's only 200 pounds, so can wet. But he has the defensive side of the ball. And if you wanna go even deeper and start talking about things that we don't normally talk about in this channel, which is advanced stats, advanced stats absolutely love Herb Jones. When he is on the floor, the Pelicans are such a better team. We're talking about the difference between an average team to a really good playoff team when Herb Jones is on the floor. Their points per possession go up plus six when he's on the floor. And their opposing team's points per possession goes down 3.2. And if you need to know, that puts him in the 89th percentile on offense and then the 75th percentile on defense when he is on the floor. And that is in 2,200 minutes. So it's not like there's a small sample size. Herb was starting for a good point in the season, a good portion of the season. And there's not many players that have impacted their team on the advanced analytics side like Herb Jones has, especially in the rookie class. And then Josh Giddy, average 12, 8, and 6 has some of the best vision in the entire draft class. His jump shot has not come along and his scoring overall hasn't come along. So the fact that, bro, average 12 and a half points is a surprise to me because he's not that great on that side of the ball when it comes to scoring, but all in due time, I definitely can say that he was one of the top seven rookies in his class this first season. And before we get into our last three, I'm gonna give y'all my honorable mentions. These are the people that just missed a cut on these things. Trade man impressed me a lot this season. Davion Mitchell kicked it up, especially in the second half of the season and especially in the last two weeks or so, but I'm not just using those last two weeks to show that he deserves to be here. Alpren Sengun deserves a lot of love. One of my favorite rookies in this class, Cam Thomas came in to score when they asked him to, but the sample size wasn't big enough. Jonathan Camingo wasn't given enough PT. 100%, I feel like he was getting 20 minutes a game, 25 minutes a game. He would have made one of these two lists, but they didn't give him that. I was impressed with the way he played in the minutes he was given though. And Jose Alvarado, man, I'm gonna show you a little bit of love, even though you shouldn't really be in these conversations for the top 10 in the class, but you know I got love for you. All right, so let's get to the three people that we decided to add to the last of the second team. The first one is Chris Dorte. Though he cooled off a little bit and though he missed a chunk of the season, especially like right now, the very early stages of Chris Dorte's Ricky season was incredible. We're talking about game winners, we're talking about him going out and putting up 20s, but even though he cooled off his overall stats from this rookie season, is at least good enough to get him on the second team. All right, say what you want about this pick. Maybe it's a homer pig, but I've watched Ayodo Sumo every single minute of his NBA career so far, and he is such a very impactful player. The counter stats is definitely not gonna jump off the page for you like similarly to Herb Jones, but there are the advanced stats show that he is one of the best on-ball defenders in the entire NBA and we're talking about a rookie here. He's taken the hardest matchup, especially when Alex Caruso on Lonzo Barrow out of the lineup and he's doing his best and he's hitting his shots more that I think a lot of people expected him to hit out of Illinois and I just think he deserves to be on the second team. Maybe that's a homer pick, but I really enjoy watching Ayodo Sumo. And the very last guy, the 10th man and my all NBA all rookie teams is Bones Highland. Shout out to Bones. I like a story of a player that is drafted late that doesn't get a lot of PT and then as the season goes on, the coaching staff starts to start to trust him more and more and more. And there was a time where he was playing like behind Campazo. And then eventually they was like, you know what? We're gonna let Bones be our backup point guard. And since they've done that, he's been very, very good. He's been getting an adequate amount of minutes and he's been showing the world that even though he was drafted very late, he can still be a player in this NBA. Okay, shout out to the people that didn't make the list, but hey, I gotta love for a lot of us. Now we have to finally, I feel like I've been putting it off. We have to finally talk about my rookie of the year. As you know, it's been narrowed down to the final three guys, Kade Cunningham, Evan Mobley, and Scotty Barnes, all three of them impressed me so heavily. And I was trying to figure out where I want to wait what is most important, right? Kade Cunningham, 100% is the most more impactful offensive player, the most skilled offensive player, and he looks like a guy that can run your offense for 20 years and you'd be very, very happy for him to do that. Evan Mobley looks like he could be a generational defensive player and the offense didn't look too bad either. And then Scotty Barnes has a little bit of all of that, right? Scotty Barnes can play your point guard, which he did this season. He can play your shooter guard, which he did this season. He can play your small four, which he did this season. He can play your power four. You get what I'm saying, right? Scotty Barnes has been one of the most versatile players and I'm not just talking about his rookie class, but I'm talking about in the entirety of the NBA. But the Rookie of the Year award has never been about winning games, right? Cause you gotta think about it like this. More likely than not, if you're a top rookie, you were drafted to an ass team, right? Kade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons had the number one pick for a reason, right? They put together a bad roster on purpose so they can go in here to get that first overall pick and it worked and they got a guy in Kade Cunningham who might be very, very, or seems like he's going to be very, very good. So I don't want to penalize Kade Cunningham because his team won 20-something games because, well, he was good. Especially when you take out of the minutes where he's playing on a bum ankle and he was trying to learn the pacing of the NBA. If you get rid of that first month, Kade Cunningham's statistics are wild, but it is Rookie of the Year. And I gotta look at the entire sample size and not just get rid of an entire month. I'm trying to figure out the right way to say this. I'm not devaluing Kade Cunningham's case of Rookie of the Year because his team is bad. He can't really control that, right? I'm not saying that he's lower on the list because his team won 20 games. I can't do that to him. That's unfair to him because if you look at his starter lineup that he played with all season, they compare it to Evan Mobley's starter lineup, they compare it to Scottie Barnes' starter lineup. You can tell which team won 20 games and which team hasn't. E-Mole played with two other All-Stars and Scottie played with All-Star Fred Van Vleet and Pascal Siakam, who in my opinion, is an All-NBA player. So they've had better rosters around them. So I can't discredit Kade for not making the playoffs or playing on a bad team. But what I will do is say that Evan Mobley and Scottie Barnes are huge players on those playoff teams, right? I'm adding them being very impactful players on playoff teams as a plus for them and not saying that's a negative for Kade. Does that make sense? Hopefully it does. There was a game very early in Evan Mobley's career where he played against the Atlanta Hawks and I've told the story in our podcast if you've been listening to it. And there were two back-to-back possessions where he switched onto Trey Young and I was so very impressed. I had interviewed Evan Mobley a month before the NBA draft. And like I said, I'm not a college basketball watcher but I did my due diligence, right? If I'm gonna interview a person or a player, I'm gonna try to dive deep into their life and to their film to figure out, okay, what do I need to know about this person? And I saw what a lot of people saw, right? I saw that Evan Mobley was a really good defender. I saw that his offense are probably gonna be really good eventually. But I didn't expect him to be able to switch onto one of the NBA's top guards and hold his own. Now, I don't trust him to do that 48 minutes a game. I don't trust him to guard Trey Young 48 minutes a game. But in those possessions, I saw a guy that was generationally good as a rookie defender. And I was impressed. And then I look back on, it might have been the third game of Scott E. Barnes's NBA career against the Boston Celtics in Boston. And I just remember so many possessions in that game where he looked like the best player on the entire court. Obviously, he was on court with Jason Tatum, with Jaylen Brown, with Pascal and with Fred Van Vleet. But in that game, one of his first games of his NBA career, there were multiple times where I thought to myself, he is the best player on the court today. Cutting, defense, rebounding, playmaking, spot-up shooting, mid-range jump shot, crashing the glass. He put everything together in one of his first games of his NBA career. And I was highly impressed. So like I said, man, as long as you have one of these top three guys, I can't make an argument that you're wrong, right? But if I had a ballot, and I can only pick one of the dudes, my rookie of the year is Scott E. Barnes. And the reason I picked him over the other two candidates, and it was a hard decision. It was literally down to the wire. And even now that I'm saying this, it is what it is, right? The reason why I picked him over the other candidates is that I think he has had the most well-rounded campaign and I think he has showed the most versatility of the three guys. Who's gonna be the best NBA player in the three? Not super relevant to my rookie of the year. But there's times where like Fred Van Vlee goes down in injury. You know who he's starting at point guard? Scott E. Barnes. You know what he did? He facilitated the hell out of the bomb. There's times where he legitimately played center in lineups and he was cleaning the glass, getting blocks. And no matter who you ask him to guard, he's gonna go out there and he's gonna give a valiant effort and do a pretty decent job. The rookie wall is something I think every rookie ends up hitting, I mean, some people hit it very early on to get over it and I think that's the case with Kay Cunningham with the injury and him trying to adjust to the pace. Or Evan Mobley, unfortunately for him, he hit the rookie wall and then got injured like a week later. So like the last thing images of Evan Mobley and a lot of people's mind is like the last two weeks of the season, he averaged like eight points per game and then he got injured which is unfortunate for his campaign. But Scott E. continued to be well-rounded throughout all of that. And it was hard to make his decision, man. I think all three guys are very deserving. There's been times in the season where I've tuned into the Detroit Pistons and Kay Cunningham legitimately has taken over games. The only one that comes to mind right now is the one against the Brooklyn Nets because it's on top of my mind. He scored like 14 straight points for the Detroit Pistons in a close game against the Brooklyn Nets. And what Evan Mobley, one of the things I really love about his game is that he's not one of those big men that is afraid to take care of a mismatch. I hate it when we have a near seven-footer, a seven-footer that can have somebody small in their back and he doesn't demand the ball. He doesn't ask for the ball. Evan Mobley does that. Every single time Evan Mobley is played against Chicago Bulls who run and is toriously small where like Javante Green is at the four, Javante is guarding Evan Mobley and Evan Mobley is demanding the ball on the block. I love that about his game. As a help defender, Evan Mobley is elite. As a rim protector, Evan Mobley is elite. But I can only pick one guy. And the guy I decided to pick was Scotty Barnes. And I think every single time I do one of these before I go into the film session, I'm gonna tweet out, asking y'all who your rookie of the year is. So be sure to follow me at KOT4Q. And I'm looking at the results with just four minutes left. This is greatly timed, 17,000 votes. That's a very good sample size. Shout out to everybody that voted in this one. I turned off the replies because I didn't want people to get influenced by the people. But then I remember that quote-teach-worth thing and yeah, the quote-tweets kind of went insane. Anyway, in this tweet, 44% of the votes went to Evan Mobley. That is first place. 30% of the votes went to Kade Cunningham. That is second place. And 26% of the votes went to Scotty Barnes. And that is last place. I do not make these videos where I'm giving my opinion to police people. I don't pander to people. And I think everybody that voted here has a legitimate reason for them having their vote. I just have Scotty Barnes as my number one. Welcome to a war week, man. Hopefully that was a good video for you, even if you disagree with everything I said in this one. If you did, like it, leave it a like. If you disliked it, don't dislike my damn video. Even though YouTube got rid of the dislike feature, I can still see the dislike. So if you dislike it, know that I will see that and it will hurt my feelings.