{"id":434403,"date":"2023-04-26T12:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434403"},"modified":"2023-04-26T04:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T08:22:58","slug":"orlandos-paolo-banchero-voted-rookie-of-the-year-in-nba","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/orlandos-paolo-banchero-voted-rookie-of-the-year-in-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando&#8217;s Paolo Banchero voted Rookie of the Year in NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year&#8217;s No. 1 overall draft pick, Paolo Banchero, proved that the hype surrounding his name was no fluke and took home the NBA&#8217;s No. 1 rookie award. The 20-year-old Banchero has proven his worth, leading the rookies with an average of 20 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>His 6.9 rebounds per game ranked him fifth among basketball players in his first year in the League, and his 3.7 assists per game ranked him third.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Paolo Banchero becomes the third Magic player to win Rookie of the Year ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kELgYzOzXR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kELgYzOzXR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1650999299642126336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>His career best was 31 points, 6 rebounds, 2 steals in Orlando&#8217;s hard-fought road win over Boston in December, when he hit six of his seven three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>He ended up winning the vote in a landslide after garnering 98 of a possible 100 first-place votes, with the other two going to Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler. Kessler also finished No. 2 overall, with Oklahoma City wing Jaylen Williams third.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler ranks 4th in the entire league in blocks per game average and is also shooting 72 percent from game situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year&#8217;s No. 1 overall draft pick, Paolo Banchero, proved that the hype surrounding his name was no fluke and took home the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":434404,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16758,17278],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17892,19030],"acf":{"announce":"The 20-year-old Banquero has proven his worth, leading the rookies with an average of 20 points per game","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434403"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434403"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}