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NBA: Kevin Durant barely edges Jamario Moon for rookie of the year
Early in the season, you could argue that Kevin Durant was not the NBA’s rookie of the year. The kid, assembled from pipe-cleaners, was taking any old shot that came along, and in his first four full months in the NBA shot 41.4%, 40.8%, 40.0%, and 37.6%. He was scoring, but if you take enough shots, you are going to get some points. Then came a lightbulb moment that stretched right to the ...
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The AltRaps Blog — ... Toronto’s Jamario Moon, plucked from somewhere beyond obscurity, got seven third-place votes, and finished a very distant fifth in the balloting. Good effort, kid. - National Post VIDEO: Top 10 plays of the Magic/Raptors series ...

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