By LARRY VAUGHT
It’s hard to imagine any college basketball player having a better year than Anthony Davis did from sweeping the top individual awards to winning a national championship to being part of the gold-medal Olympic team.
Apparently his play has also impressed his future NBA peers as a nba.com survey by John Schuhmann of Davis’ fellow rookies predicted he would be rookie of the year and would also have the best NBA career of any of them
Davis got 47 percent of the vote for rookie of the year and Damian Lillard 17.6 percent. He got 40.6 percent of the vote for best career with Harrison Barnes next at 12.5 percent. Those are pretty decisive margins.
Another former UK standout, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, was voted the best defender with 28.6 percent of the vote. And who was second? Davis with 14.3 percent.
John Jenkins was projected as the best shooter by a wide margin of Bradley Beal. Jenkins played at Vanderbilt and Beal at Florida.
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Sounds like a whole lotta SEC… I like that…
As it should be Larry. As it should be.
Wait a minute. I am confused. The SEC is a football conference, right! Then how come the top rookies are SEC?
As for Anthony being the Rookie of The Year, I have a one word comment. Duh!
Lots of SEC pride there! Maybe now Louisville fans can take the blinders off and understand that the Big Least is NOT the best conference in all of basketball around the whole world….
That Davis would be expected to be Rookie-of-the-Year is not a surprise. What is going to be a surprose is where Darius Miller ranks at the end of the year.
Seymour, like that thinking a lot
Darius Miller, is a taller Ray Allen, ” one Day “…they both have finesse….