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Spurs' Stephon Castle named 2024-25 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year Award winners

Spurs' Stephon Castle named 2024-25 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year Award winners

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San Antonio Spurs Guard Stephon Castle is the recipient of the Wilt Chamberlain Trophy as a Kia NBA rookie in 2024-25.

Castle is the fourth player who won the Kia NBA Rookie of the Year Award with the Spurs and comes to David Robinson (1989-90), Tim Duncan (1997-98) and the recipient of the last season Victor Wembanyama (2023-24). The Spurs are the first team to have successive winners of this annual honor since the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2014-15 (Andrew Wiggins) and 2015-16 (Karl-Anthony Towns).

In the regular 2024-25 season, Castle scored an average of 14.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 0.91 steals in 26.7 minutes. He led all newcomers into points per game, took fourth place in Assists per game and took sixth place in Steals per game. Castle also had the most points (1,190), steals (74) and free throws (249) among NBA players in the first year.

Castle was appointed rookie of the month Kia NBA Western Conference for games in January and March. In 30 games after the All-Star break, he scored an average of 17.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.0 assists in 28.6 minutes.

At NBA All-Star 2025 in San FranciscoCastle was selected as the most valuable player in the Castrol Rising Stars after helping his team earn a place to play in the NBA All-Star game.

A global media committee of 100 voters selected the winner of the Kia NBA Rookie of the Year 2024-25. You can find the complete voting results below. The vote was tabulared by the independent auditing company Ernst & Young LLP.

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