The accolades keep pouring in for the Miami Heat. Following two Player of the Week awards this season for Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo, Kendrick Nunn has been named Rookie of the Month.
The hits don’t stop for the Miami Heat as we enter 2020. A squad with two Player of the Week winners in the form of Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo just added a Rookie of the Month. Monday afternoon, the NBA announced that Kendrick Nunn was the Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month, with Ja Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies winning in the West.
Nunn stepped into the starting point guard spot with the massive injury and suspension misfortune throughout the Heat roster and has made the spot his own. With Dion Waiters, Goran Dragic and Justise Winslow all missing significant time, Nunn has been a godsend for the Heat.
Heat's Kendrick Nunn again Eastern Conferece Rookie of the Month, this time for December.
— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) January 2, 2020
Instead of scraping and clawing for minutes as expected to begin the season, he’s started all 33 games for the Heat and is averaging 30 minutes per game. Nunn is averaging 16 points, 3.5 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game while shooting 44.7 percent from the floor, 35 percent from 3-point range and 78.8 percent from the free throw line.
Kendrick Nunn is the only player to win an Eastern Conference Rooke of the Month. He won the award for October/November, and maintains his lockdown hold on the award going into the new year.
He joins Caron Butler (four times), Michael Beasley and Josh Richardson as the only Miami Heat players to ever win the award, and he and Butler are the only multi-time winners of the award. He is also the only undrafted player in NBA history to win the award multiple times.
Nunn’s Rookie of the Year odds have soared since starting the season off the board, and these repeated accolades can only help his case as he faces off against Morant.