All the Pretty Rookies of the Year

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What a year it was. Actually, it's not over yet. But this regular season was really one for the ages, due in no small part to all the totally awesome rookie we fell in love with. How often do you have three legit Rookie of the Year candidates, each of them putting up All-Star-ish numbers, each with their own rabid camp of supporters? And it doesn't stop there. We got to see so many other rookies play well, or at least behave notably enough that, with the regular season through, we feel they all deserve a chocolate-chip pancake.



Therefore, rather than live with the single ROY award that's customary in the league, or the co-ROY that's been known to happen, we went ahead and gave out 35 separate little imaginary trophies. One for each first-rounder, and then honors for some second-rounders of note. Drink up, enjoy, and remember, even dwarves start small and only the good die young. Or, to reprise something they taught us once in grade school, everyone's special in their own way. It just takes a highly-trained writer to take time and describe it. Good luck, Class of 2009, may this be the first of many plaudits you earn as one and as many.

 

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