Durant beats out Horford for rookie of the year

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Fucky McFuckerson

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Seattle SuperSonics guard Kevin Durant will be named NBA Rookie of the Year, the Seattle Times reported, citing two anonymous league sources.

Nineteen-year-old Kevin Durant will become the first Sonics player to win rookie of the year honors. His points per game were third-best among rookies in the last 10 years.

Durant, who led all first-year players in scoring, assists and free-throw percentage, beat out Atlanta Hawks forward Al Horford to become the first Rookie of the Year in Seattle franchise history, the newspaper reported. The NBA is expected to officially announce the award on Thursday.

Durant averaged 20.3 points per game in 2007-08 -- the highest scoring average for a rookie since LeBron James averaged 20.9 points per game in 2003-04. Only three of the past 10 rookies of the year -- Durant, James and Elton Brand -- have averaged at least 20 points in their first season.

Among qualifiers, Durant also was the first rookie to lead his team in scoring since the 2004-05 season, when both Charlotte's Emeka Okafor and Atlanta's Josh Childress led their teams in scoring.

Durant became the favorite to win the award when No. 1 draft pick Greg Oden was forced to miss the entire season following microfracture knee surgery.

Horford averaged 10.1 points and 9.7 rebounds, helping the Hawks back to the NBA playoffs for the first time in nine years.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3374806
 
XxtraMannish

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I hope Oden doesnt lose too much from this injury...i was excited to see him play this year.
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I've seen a few clips of him in practice and he looks like he's still gonna be a beast. All that time that he was off the court he was in the weight room and in the pool. He is even bigger and more muscular than he was in college. In fact, now his goal is to lose muscle. he's gonna be a monster. especially when you consider that in terms of microfracture surgery, his injury was TINY and kevin pritchard is not letting him rush back into anything. There is a very good chance some of his skills are rusty, but he's back on the practice floor and there's plenty of time between now and the regular season. i have full confidence that he was still the right choice at the #1 pick.
 
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^^^Oden's knee is fine. He's been back on the practice court for some time now and his teammates "were in awe" of him and how good he's gonna be. Talk to me about Oden being a bust when the season starts. 27 other teams would kill to have Oden on their roster.
 
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