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Think Trae Young is a more deserving Rookie of the Year than Mavs' Luka Doncic? Your contrarian is showing... and it's absurd.

Trae Young's game-winning play, no doubt about it, was magnificent, as was his overall performance.

In most years, Young's running floater with one-tenth of a second left in the Hawks' 129-127 victory over Philadelphia on Saturday night would have been the exclamation point on a Rookie of the Year-statement night.

But not on this night. Not this season.

Not with the superior-in-virtually-every-way year Luka Doncic is having.

We, however, live in the Argumentative Age, so, predictably, no sooner had Young's game-winner dropped through the hoop when contrarian absurdity, bordering on taunting, ensued.

"Doncic who?