{"id":421427,"date":"2025-01-02T21:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=421427"},"modified":"2025-01-02T21:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:29:26","slug":"yves-missi-alex-sarr-named-nba-western-and-eastern-conference-rookies-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/yves-missi-alex-sarr-named-nba-western-and-eastern-conference-rookies-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Yves Missi, Alex Sarr named NBA Western and Eastern Conference Rookies of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Pelicans center Yves Missi and Washington Wizards forward-center Alex Sarr were voted NBA Rookies of the Month for December respectively for the Western and Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Missi, a Cameroonian big man selected by New Orleans at No. 21 in the last NBA Draft, wrapped up December with averages of 11.2 points (57%FG), 10 rebounds and 1.6 blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Sarr, the second overall pick, put together 13.8 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.7 blocks in the last month, shooting a very promising 44%\u00a0 from long distance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-421425 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/GgT9tvaX0AAGAmb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/GgT9tvaX0AAGAmb.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/GgT9tvaX0AAGAmb.jpg?resize=300,188 300w, https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/GgT9tvaX0AAGAmb.jpg?resize=768,480 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New Orleans Pelicans center Yves Missi and Washington Wizards forward-center Alex Sarr have been named the Kia NBA Western and Eastern Conference Rookies of the Month, respectively, for games played in December. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LdIeKzxDln\">pic.twitter.com\/LdIeKzxDln<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1874908612604449160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missi was selected by New Orleans at No. 21 in the last NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":421426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-421427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/GgT9tvaX0AAGAmb.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421427"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=421427"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=421427"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=421427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}