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Rookie Prospect Report: Above the Rest

Fred Katz

Fred Katz

Fred Katz averaged almost one point per game in 5th grade, but he maintains that his per 36 minutes numbers were astonishing. Find more of his work at ProBasketballDraft.com or on ESPN's TrueHoop Network. Follow him on Twitter at @FredKatz.

It's down to two.

We're more than a week into the NBA's regular season and some rookies are already starting to separate themselves from the rest of the group.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist dropped 25 on 8-for-12 shooting in a four-point victory over the Mavericks. Dion Waiters went for 28 against the Clippers in a game in which a Waiters missed field goal seemed like a realistic impossibility. Alexey Shved even ridded himself of that mophead that might have actually provoked some sort of physical reaction from Carson Kressley.

Plenty of rookies have had standout games, but only two have held consistency throughout the young season. Those two should come as no surprise: Anthony Davis and
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