One of the most heated arguments across the NBA this season, particularly for the two franchises with the most skin in the game, the Utah Jazz and Philadelphia 76ers, was the Rookie of the Year debate. All throughout the 2017-18 season, the banter was nearly nonstop, with Jazz fans claiming Simmons wasn’t truly a rookie due to a “redshirt year” and Sixers fans claiming that Mitchell could do little else but shoot.
In all honesty, the constant back and forth and heavily overused jabs that would appear on nearly every single social media post grew tiresome very quickly.