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Minnesota Timberwolves NBA 2015 News: Andrew Wiggins Leads All-Rookie Team as Lone Unanimous Choice
First overall draft pick, and NBA Rookie of the Year Andrew Wiggins of the Minnesota Timberwolves came out as the only unanimous selection for the NBA's All-Rookie First Team.
As reported by the Associated Press, the Canadian-born basketball prodigy received all 130 votes Monday from a panel of sports writers and broadcaster in North America. For the season, Wiggins averaged 16.9 points 4.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and one steal, while playing all 82 games for the Wolves.
Joining him in the first team was the Chicago Bulls' Nikola Mirotic, the Philadelphia 76ers' Nerlens Noel, the Orlando Magic's Elfrid Payton, and the Los Angeles Lakers' Jordan Clarkson.
The second team was composed of the Boston's Celtics' Marcus Smart, the Wolves' Zach LaVine, the Brooklyn Nets' Bojan Bogdanovic, the Denver Nuggets' Jusuf Nurkic, and the New York Knicks' Langston Galloway.
As noted by the AP report, the panel chose five players for each team regardless of position. Two points were awarded for first-team votes, while one point was given for second-team votes.
Wiggins was the top pick for the most highly-anticipated draft class in years, and while the class didn't quite live up to expectations, with so many of them being so young, they just might turn into the players most expect them to be.
Wiggins made great strides throughout the course of his rookie campaign. He struggled to kick off the season, averaging just seven points in his first two games, and just 12.3 points for the month of November.
In January, he showed a better understanding of the NBA game, and normed 19.8 points per game, while shooting 47.1 percent from the field. He would have his best month yet in April when he averaged 23.2 points.
Apart from is scoring, Wiggins was even better on the other end of the floor, quickly establishing himself as one of the better perimeter defensive players in the league in his rookie season, and after just spending a year at the University of Kansas.