Miami Heat rookie Justise Winslow didn’t get much love from his peers when the NBA polled this season’s rookies to see who would take home awards and who exceeded in certain areas of the game. Winslow was mentioned here and there, but was consistently beaten out by rookies taken after him in the draft.
Winslow didn’t receive a single vote for predicting rookie of the year (Jahlil Okafor got 41.9 percent of the rookie vote). Meanwhile, other forwards like Justin Anderson and Stanley Johnson (whom Winslow is likely to be compared to for much of his career, due the Pistons taking Johnson over Winslow at No.