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Continuing our tour of All-Rookie teams, we head to the newly created Southeast Division, where 60% of the teams didn't exist before 1988.  Let's take a look at what they've produced.... -Atlanta Hawks: People tend to forget that the Hawks are an original NBA franchise with some illustrious history.  For the purposes of our inquiry, however, that history pretty much stopped by the mid-1970s.  The Hawks have had scads of great rookies before that time.  Since then...not so much.  … [Read more...] about All-Time All-Rookie Teams: Southeast Division

Continuing with our examinations of each franchise's top rookies of All-Time, here is the Central: -Chicago Bulls: The Bulls have two Rookies of the Year in their franchise history and they are doozies.  Elton Brand was great in 1999-00 and one can only wonder where the Bulls would be the last few years if they would've kept him.  The other is some guy named Michael Jordan in 1984-85.  With the shooting guard slot and power forward locked up, can we find any other decent rookies … [Read more...] about All-Time All-Rookie Teams: Central Division

Each summer as NBA activity slows to a crawl (referee controversies and Kevin Garnett trades notwithstanding) we like to get a little more reflective and some historical perspective-type series.  This summer I thought we'd go over the All-Time All-Rookie squad for each franchise.  Hopefully, we'll see how many useful rookies each franchise produced and, also, find out about a few players who didn't quite develop after good starts.  For ground rules, our teams will be limited to NBA … [Read more...] about All-Time All-Rookie Teams: Atlantic Division