{"id":715166,"date":"2026-04-21T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715166\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:04:00","slug":"nba-rookie-of-the-year-finalists-announced-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715166\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Rookie Of The Year Finalists Announced For 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel and VJ Edgecombe were announced as the 3 finalists for the NBA Rookie of the Year award. The winner will be announced at some point during the NBA playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick look at the stats of each of the finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Stacy Revere\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Stacy Revere\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Flagg &#8211; Dallas Mavericks<\/p>\n<p>Played in 70 gamesAveraged 33.5 minutes per gameAveraged 21.0 points per game (24th in League)Averaged 6.7 rebounds per game (35th in League)Averaged 4.5 assists per game (42nd in League)<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jacob Kupferman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jacob Kupferman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Kon Knueppel &#8211; Charlotte Hornets<\/p>\n<p>Played in 81 gamesAveraged 31.5 minutes per gameAveraged 18.5 points per game (37th in League)Averaged 5.3 rebounds per game (69th in League)Averaged 3.4 assists per game (69th in League)<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Emilee Chinn\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Emilee Chinn\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>VJ Edgecombe &#8211; Philadelphia 76&#8217;rs<\/p>\n<p>Played in 75 gamesAveraged 35 minutes per gameAveraged 16.0 points per game (52nd in League)Averaged 5.6 rebounds per game (59th in League)Averaged 4.2 assists per game (43rd in League)<\/p>\n<p>Cooper leads Knueppel and Edgecombe in all statistical categories (points, rebounds and assists). He played in fewer games than either because of his ankle injury. Both Knueppel and Edgecombe both are on playoff teams while the Mavericks failed to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think should win Rookie o the Year? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/WEZQFM.png\" alt=\"92.9 The Ticket logo\"\/>The Highest-Grossing Movies of All Time (Domestic)<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top ten top-grossing movies in the United States in the entire history of movies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel and VJ Edgecombe were announced as the 3 finalists for the NBA Rookie of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,1407,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-715166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-national-basketball-association","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116442845401984755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}