Karl-Anthony Towns just finished one of the greatest rookie seasons in modern NBA history. Whenever the voting results are announced, Towns is likely to run away with the Rookie of the Year Award, if not win it unanimously.
Taken with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, Towns averaged 18.3 points, 10.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.7 blocks per game on his way to a 22.5 player efficiency rating (PER), the seventh-highest for any rookie since the ABA-NBA merger in 1976.
He wasn't just the league's best rookie during the 2015-16 season; he was already one of its best overall players—the rare first-year player to establish himself as a legitimate two-way star.