Last year’s Rookie of the Year race was fun and close but that’s long over now. We always want to know what’s next and at the same time we always want to look back. So a logical question is “which sophomore player would you rather build around?”
ESPN polled 18 league coaches and executives from around the league and ranked them as follows.
That list shouldn’t surprise too many people. Simmons is already an All Star, Mitchell and Tatum had postseason success (and regular season growth), and Fox has exploded onto the scene as a Most Improved Player candidate.