In the the latest NBA Rookie Power Rankings Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat rose a bit to the 8th best player picked from 2017 NBA draft. As Colin Ward-Henninger writes about first-year NBA players, “This is the roller coaster that is life for an NBA rookie.”
The small sample size so far leads to wild fluctuations because of limited minutes played, strength of schedule, NBA scouts figuring out how to stop players. He notes, “After being No. 1 just three weeks ago, Kuzma dropped all the way out of the rankings, averaging just 9.