The RoundHouse | 4/19/2019 11:38:00 AM

Landry Shamet won't win the NBA's Rookie of the Year, which is a regular-season award. In the playoffs, however, Shamet enjoyed his big moment while most of the NBA's other prominent rookies are starting their summer vacation.
 
Shamet made a go-ahead three-pointer in Monday's 135-131 win (remember that score) for the Los Angeles Clippers over the Golden State Warriors. The basket, capping a night in which he scored 12 points on 4-of-9 three-point shooting, helped a 31-point comeback and pushed him into the NBA spotlight.
 
That game will stand as one of the most memorable of the playoffs. 
 
In a season in which most of the rookie love went to Luka Doncic (Dallas) and Trae Young (Atlanta), Shamet earned his moment by leading the rookie class with a three-point percentage of 42.2.
 
Shamet, traded to the Clippers from Philadelphia in early February, averages 9.1 points this season, 10.9 in his 25 games (23 as a starter) with the Clippers. He has a chance to make the NBA's All-Rookie Team, most likely as a second-teamer.
 
Xavier McDaniel is the previous Shocker to make an NBA All-Rookie Team – first team in 1986 along with Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Joe Dumars and Charles Oakley.
 
Some other notable NBA/ABA rookie season from former Shockers:
 
McDaniel averaged 17.1 points and 8.0 rebounds for Seattle in 1985-86 after the Sonics picked him fourth in the 1985 draft (behind Ewing, Wayman Tisdale and Benoit Benjamin). 
 
Antoine Carr, a rookie in 1984-85, started 15 games for Atlanta and averaged 8.0 points and 3.7 rebounds. Detroit took Carr No. 8 in the 1983 draft and he played professionally overseas for a season before the Pistons traded him (and Shocker teammate Cliff Levingston) to Atlanta before the 1984 season.
 
Warren Jabali earned ABA Rookie of the Year honors in 1968-69 after averaging 21.5 points for Oakland. 
 
The Oaks won the ABA title with Jabali averaging 28.8 points, 12.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists in a 16-game run that ended with a 4-1 series victory over the Indiana Pacers. 
 
He scored 39 points in the final game, a 135-131 overtime win at what was then known as Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena. That arena, opened in 1966, is now Oracle Arena, where Shamet hit his big shot on Monday.
 
That performance handed Jabali, at 22, playoff MVP honors. 
 
Dave Stallworth, picked third in 1965, averaged 12.6 points and 6.2 rebounds for the Knicks in 1965-66. 
 
Paul Suellentrop covers Wichita State Athletics and the American Athletic Conference for university Strategic Communications. Contact him at paul.suellentrop@wichita.edu.