Chet Holmgren gave an honest answer when asked if he should've won Rookie of the Year.
throughout the NBA season. Comparisons started long ago when the two matched up in international ball, and stuck with the pair all the way into the NBA.
Of course, Wembanyama would go onto win the award with one of the best rookie seasons of all time, but Holmgren held his own throughout the regular season. In the end, the role he played on the best team in a loaded Western Conference was his best argument. He anchored a top defense and scored the second most total points on an elite Thunder team. Wembanyama, meanwhile, put up great stats on one of the worst teams in the NBA.
“I mean, that’s just such a difficult, loaded question,” Holmgren said. “To sit here and say ‘If this, if that’ talking about situations, I guess our situations were different. Like polar opposites. You can come up with 50 pros and cons for each of us on things outside of statistics, like completely random things from who’s on our team, what we’re playing for, what amount of attention is placed on us.
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