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A rookie is a person new to an occupation, profession, or hobby. In sports, a rookie is a professional athlete in their first season.
Cole Whitt's car with yellow rookie stripes
NBA Rookie of the Year
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The National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association award given to the top rookie of the regular season. Initiated following the 1952–53 NBA season, i
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…Association, a rookie is any player who has never played a game in the NBA until that year and the past 1 years. The NBA awards the best rookie with the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, as voted upon by a selected panel of United States and Canadian sportswriters and broadcasters. In the NBA, rookies have special contract rules which…
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Wilt Chamberlain won the award in the 1959–60 NBA season.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (formerly known as Lew Alcindor) won the award unanimously in the 1969–70 NBA season.
Larry Bird won the award in the 1979–80 NBA season.