National Basketball Association Awards
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The National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association award given to the top rookie of the regular season. Initiated following the 1952–53 NBA season, it confers the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy, named after the Philadelphia Warriors head coach who led his team to the 1946–47 NBA Championship.
The winner is selected by a panel of US and Canadian sportswriters, each casting first, second, and third place votes. The player with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.
The most recent Rookie of the Year winner is Michael Carter-Williams. Nineteen winners were drafted first overall. Fourteen also won the NBA Most Valuable Player award, Wilt Chamberlain and Wes Unseld earning both honors the same season. Nineteen of the forty two non-active winners have been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Three seasons had joint winners—Dave Cowens and Geoff Petrie in the 1970–71 season, Grant Hill and Jason Kidd in the 1994–95 season, and Elton Brand and Steve Francis in the 1999–00 season.
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Check all the winners of NBA Rookie of the Year Award presented under National Basketball Association Awards since 1953 .
