The new star who has received the most attention this season is undoubtedly this year's champion Wembanyama, who is known as having a once-in-a-century talent, and has gained a lot of attention before entering the NBA. At the same time, in order to win Wembanyama, many teams began to mess up, and finally the Spurs won the top pick, and he became Popovich's goalmate. And looking at the performance of his rookie season, even if the team is at the bottom of the team, he is undoubtedly the strongest champion after James.
Wembanyama are averaging 20 per game this season3 points, 10 rebounds, 31 assist and 3 blocks, is now the league's block king. When he first entered the NBA, there were also a lot of voices that looked down, thinking that he had a bamboo pole-like body and was easily injured. And after playing halfway through, we can see that he has enough dominance on the pitch to defend from the outside to the inside, and is very aggressive.
Wembanyama showed his offensive and defensive attributes in his rookie season, with Garnett's defensive ability and Duran's scoring ability. He can get the ball in the backcourt, dribble directly to the frontcourt to complete the change of direction, and at the free throw line can take two steps to complete the dunk. At the same time, Wembanyama also has the ability to shoot three-pointers, although his performance on the court is not stable enough, but after slowly leveling up, he will undoubtedly become a big killer in the league.
After James, there are also a number of top picks who have also played in their rookie seasons, like Griffin who also averaged 22 per game in his rookie season5 points 121 rebound 38 assists all-around stats, but he didn't play in his first year due to injury. And Zion also averaged 22 per game in his rookie season5 points, but he only played 24 games in his rookie season due to injury; In addition, like Edwards, Davis is now a star player in the league, but in his rookie season, he did not perform as well as Wembanyama.