We at ATS have you covered from every betting angle of the 2022-2023 NBA season. We have posted a preview on each Division and Conference already. Additionally, we are also looking at the odds for the award winners for this season. This piece will focus on the Rookie Of The Year, who is awarded the Eddie Gotlieb trophy each season. The odds to earn that award are listed below.
NBA ROY Odds
No NBA Rookie of the Year odds are available at this time. Check back before the 2023-24 season for the latest preseason odds.
Best Bet For Rookie Of The Year
At this point, the NBA Rookie of the Year award is locked up. Paolo Banchero has been excellent in his rookie campaign, and has secured this year’s Rookie of the Year award. He has made a previously horrid Orlando Magic team a more watchable squad this year, which he deserves a ton of credit for.
Banchero has also benefited from a rookie class that has not played all that well around him. Fellow top-three picks Chet Holmgren and Jabari Smith Jr. have failed to live up to expectations. With injuries derailing Holmgren’s season before it started, and Smith failing to achieve any sort of efficiency in year one, the award was Banchero’s to lose from the start.
With that said, there are a couple of players who deserve some credit for the way they played in their first years in the NBA. Keegan Murray was an impact player for the Sacramento Kings this season, and helped them to achieve the incredible turnaround they enjoyed. Murray’s outside shooting gave that team a much-needed lift, as he was given starter’s run for much of the year, and deservedly so.
Kessler Edwards also deserves a lot of praise for the way he played for the Utah Jazz in his first professional season. Edwards was a surprisingly athletic shot blocker and lob finisher for a Utah team that was expected to completely fall apart after trading away Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. But they did not, and Edwards deserves some credit for that, even if his rookie season will not be enough to put him ahead of Banchero in the ROY race.
