It’s been a weird NBA season, and the pre-bubble times are but a distant memory, but that doesn’t make them completely irrelevant, as the first wave of NBA awards has been announced: including Coach of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and the All-Rookie First and Second Team. That last one is the most important for our purposes, as former Tar Heel, and 7th overall pick in last year’s NBA Draft, Coby White, has been named to the All-Rookie Second Team:
2019-20 NBA All-Rookie teams:
First team: Ja Morant, Kendrick Nunn, Zion Williamson, Brandon Clarke, Eric Paschall
Second team: Coby White, Tyler Herro, Terence Davis II, PJ Washington, Rui Hachimura— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) September 15, 2020While the NBA’s press release says that media votes for these teams regardless of position, the voting tends to be somewhat by position anyways: you can see that generally speaking, both teams above have a point guard, two wings, and two forwards.