We've covered how each team in the East and West will finish. Now our panel is projecting which first-year player will have the best start to his NBA career.
We asked the ESPN Forecast team to rank its top three choices for the 2016-17 NBA Rookie of the Year, with a first-place vote receiving five points, a second-place vote receiving three and a third-place vote receiving one. (Here's how ESPN Forecast works.)
To participate in the discussion and perhaps get your opinion published on this page, #ESPNForecast is the Twitter hashtag to use.