Welcome to the fifth installment of numberFire’s Rookie Power Rankings. We now have over two months of the NBA season under our belts, so let’s take a look at the rookies who have performed the best.
As usual, we’ll be using our nERD metric to evaluate which rookies have been playing the best for their teams throughout the season. nERD indicates how many wins above or below .500 a player would make an average team over a full season.
We are limiting our consideration to players who have averaged at least 15 minutes per game.