If you weren’t around for Blake’s “rookie” year, you don’t understand how hype it was. Every night there was a chance he was going to detonate on another dude. He was so aggressive attacking the rim.

Detroit Blake was more skilled, but young Clippers Blake was a freak of nature. He almost compared to first stint Cavs LeBron and not many people can say that.

It was technically Blake’s second year

OJ Mayo, too. I was convinced he was going to be a consistent top-20 player. He hit a cliff hard after his first few seasons

The white Melo and LeBron

This is a bot right ?

I’m calling this year the Blizzard of ‘25/‘26 when I tell my grandkids about that time we got two cold ass white boys in one year.

More minutes in a nba game

Well duh, they were on the same team and the games are 40 minutes.

LeBron averaged 26 PPG as a rookie, adjusted for pace

These are all crazy but holy shit, that TS% one. Vanilla Steph.

Cooper Flagg is going to win rookie of the year but he should not. Kon season is clearly better, he is having an all timer.

This is through the team’s first 50 games of a season.

Paolo Banchero missed 7 of the first 50 games of the 2022-23 season. He had 880 points, so he just missed this list.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/banchpa01/gamelog/2023

The NBA getting colonized like they just discovered some rare earth minerals.

Fair point and damn is Kon a fucking sniper, but the reason Coop will likely pull away is the consistency. Three-game stretch with a 40/10/5. Small stretch there, but if Coop keeps his high 20 pt/low 30 pt stretch, and gets to the 20/5/5 club as a rookie? It’ll be hard to deny him the ROTY

Coop has been on an insane run recently while Kon has cooled off a bit with the hornets healthy now. I think the expectation is Coop will separate himself even more statistically by the end of the season.

if kon dropped nearly 50 on coop’s head everyone would be saying the race is over, it is not narrative that is keeping flagg ahead

My friends and I discussed the other night what we think the situation would be if you just swapped their names. Like I do currently think purely statistically and eye-test wise, it’s close, but I would give it to Coop. And I think most people agree, and that’s the way the vote will go. However if you just swapped their stat line, now I would obviously objectively say Coop is behind, but I wonder how the vote and public opinion would be looking

one guy is averaging 20.¹⁄₆.⁷⁄₄.²⁄₁.²⁄₀.8

the other guy is averaging 18.⁷⁄₅.⁵⁄₃.6/0/7/0.2

the only advantage Kon has over coop is his that he’s a better shooter.

It would be a robbery if Coop doesn’t win ROY if the season ends today

Narrative is also the reason VJ isn’t even in consideration

Maluach is a bum, 7’1” center with zero rebounds

It’s always a Wilt stat…

I’ll always remember baby raging when the Mavs inexplicably won the lottery lmao

Fuck off. He’s a Mav. Stay the hell away. Oh yeah, and fuck you.

Just because you’re quirky doesn’t mean the rest of us care