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May 12, 2021 With just a handful of days left in the regular season, the NBA’s rookies are close to … no longer being rookies. Here are my final thoughts on the season that was, some of the major developments and what’s coming next. 1. It’s critical to preface everything in this column with a reminder that player development can be aggressively nonlinear. And while there are certainly elements of a player’s rookie year that can be strongly indicative of their future, it still isn’t enough time to form complete conclusions. It’s fair game to consider the way things are trending at the moment, but I’m going to try and hold off on totally bashing draft picks or burying any rookies prematurely, particularly after a shortened season that offered little in the way of playing opportunities for a majority of players, with a compressed G League schedule abetting the issue. This was a weird year for everyone. Carry on.

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