{"id":229673,"date":"2026-02-21T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/the-nba-rookie-of-the-year-winners-quiz\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:00:28","slug":"the-nba-rookie-of-the-year-winners-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/the-nba-rookie-of-the-year-winners-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;NBA Rookie of the Year winners&#8217; quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> Happy 49th birthday to three-time NBA All-Star and 1999-2000 Rookie of the Year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/steve_francis\/4468\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Francis<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p><span>Francis was selected second-overall in the 1999 NBA Draft by the then-Vancouver Grizzlies out of Maryland and immediately traded to Houston. As a rookie averaged 18.0 points and 6.6 assists. In 2001 he made the first of his three-consecutive All-Star teams before being traded to Orlando in the deal that brought Tracy McGrady to Houston after the 2003-04 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Francis would play four more seasons, playing just 10 games in his final campaign due to a torn quad in 2007-08.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Which brings us to today\u2019s quiz. How many of the NBA Rookie of the Year winners in the NBA\u2019s Lottery Era can you name in six minutes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><span><em>Did you like this quiz? Are there any quizzes you\u2019d like to see us make in the future? Let us know your thoughts at quizzes@yardbarker.com, and make sure to subscribe to our Quiz of the Day Newsletter for daily quizzes sent right to your email!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/the_nba_rookie_of_the_year_winners_quiz\/s1__43495199\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 49th birthday to three-time NBA All-Star and 1999-2000 Rookie of the Year, Steve Francis! Francis was selected second-overall in the 1999 NBA Draft by the then-Vancouver Grizzlies out of Maryland and immediately traded to Houston. As a rookie averaged 18.0 points and 6.6 assists. In 2001 he made the first of his three-consecutive All-Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}