Alex Speers

It's a bad one.

We used to say that about Achilles injuries.

Yep.

Now it feels like guys get Achilles all the time and they come back and they're good again.

So maybe Patellar tendon will be the next one.

welcome to the saturday slamming jam here on the athletic nba daily brought to you by amazon prime on today's show we're doing our good bad and what it's suns week so we'll talk about the phoenix suns and then we'll finish with some trivia but before we get to any of that al what happened in the nba this week

I saw this game from B.J.

Edgecombe where he had 35 points and 10 assists.

Only the second rookie in the history of the 76ers to accomplish that since Allen Iverson, December 5th, 1996.

And it just got me thinking about this rookie class because Edgecombe has been way better than I thought he would be.

I thought he'd be a good player.

He's somebody that I like long-term.

I didn't know that he'd be this good this fast.

And it got me thinking, okay...

How good is this class in relation to other classes?

And I maybe do it in kind of a loser-y way by just looking at points per game.

Right now, there's 12 rookies that are averaging double digits right now.

Which I'm like, is that good, bad?

I don't know.

It's actually the second best in the last 10 years for a rookie class.