Kyrie Irving Takes NBA Rookie Of The Year

Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving is the NBA’s Rookie of the Year, winning the award with the same ease as he dribbled past defenders this season.  Irving received 117 of 120 possible first-place votes from a nationwide media panel of 120 writers and broadcasters.  Irving finished with 592 points, way ahead of Minnesota’s Ricky Rubio (170) and Denver’s Kenneth Faried (129), who was third.Faried, San Antonio’s Kawhi Leonard and New York’s Iman Shumpert received the other first-place votes, denying Irving’s bid to become the fourth player to win the award unanimously. The 20-year-old is the second Cleveland player to win the award, joining LeBron James in 2004.Irving’s award was expected.  It wasn’t a matter of if, but when, he would get it.The No. 1 overall pick in last year’s draft, he was clearly the league’s top first-year player, leading all rookies – and the Cavs – in scoring with 18.5 points per game. He also led all rookies in field-goal percentage (46.8), was second in assists (5.4) and became one of just six rookies in league history to average at least 18 points and five assists.”The progression of Kyrie from Game 1 to Game 50 probably exceeded everyone’s expectations,”head coach Byron Scott said.  Scott would later go on to say "I don’t think anyone expected him to do what he did this season although it was assumed Irving would start the season opener, I didn’t inform him until the day of the game so as not to pamper the playmaker". But Irving had earned the job and it didn’t take him long to show the Cavs and the rest of the NBA that stardom would be in his future.  Congrats to Kyrie from "The Archives" we wish him a very promising career in the NBA checkout his 2011-2012 highlights in the video below.

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