The Smoking Cuban » damian lillard http://thesmokingcuban.com A Dallas Mavericks Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:23:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Damian Lillard named 2013 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year; Anthony Davis Second http://thesmokingcuban.com/2013/05/01/damian-lillard-named-kia-nba-rookie-of-the-year-anthony-davis-second/ http://thesmokingcuban.com/2013/05/01/damian-lillard-named-kia-nba-rookie-of-the-year-anthony-davis-second/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 01:54:36 +0000 Rodney Fisher http://thesmokingcuban.com/?p=1742 It is official everyone. Damian Lillard has been officially named the 2013 NBA Rookie of the Year, which is the exclamation point to an unexpected season for the point guard. Lillard won the award hands down. He was a unaimous winner, receiving all 121 first place votes. Blake Griffin was the last rookie to win [...]

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]]> It is official everyone. Damian Lillard has been officially named the 2013 NBA Rookie of the Year, which is the exclamation point to an unexpected season for the point guard.

Lillard won the award hands down. He was a unaimous winner, receiving all 121 first place votes. Blake Griffin was the last rookie to win in such fashion. This season he averaged a rookie high 19 points per game, 6.5 assists, and a little over 38 minutes per game.

This is how the voting finished via NBA.com:

2012-2013 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year Voting Results

Rookie, Team 1st 2nd 3rd Total
Damian Lillard, Portland 121 – – 605
Anthony Davis, New Orleans – 96 18 306
Bradley Beal, Washington – 14 52 94
Andre Drummond, Detroit – 5 21 36
Dion Waiters, Cleveland – 2 15 21
Harrison Barnes, Golden State – 1 5 8
Chris Copeland, New York – 2 2 8
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Charlotte – – 3 3
Jonas Valanciunas, Toronto – – 2 2
John Jenkins, Atlanta – – 1 1
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Due to a thirst for more NBA, I have come up with a novel idea. What if there was another All-Star game at the end of the season that highlighted all the best players from teams that did not make the playoffs? It is not realistic, but we can always debate it…

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