Malcolm Delaney can’t win Rookie of the Year.
Right?
He’s a 27-year old score-first point guard, who went undrafted in 2011. No ROY winner in the modern history of the award (1980) has been drafted after the 18th pick. Delaney went undrafted, then “sat out” of NBA ball for nearly five years. Delaney isn’t your average rookie. But, there’s no reason to believe that his unorthodox path to the Atlanta Hawks hasn’t given him an even bigger opportunity to end the 2016-17 season with the Rookie of the Year award.