It’s quite possible the overall quality of NBA rookies last season might have been the worst in NBA history.

Yeah, that’s saying a lot. But look at the names of the guys voted onto the All-Rookie first team:

Stephon Castle, Zaccharie Risacher, Jaylen Wells, Zach Edey, and Alex Sarr.

They’re as hard to spell as they are to pronounce. And they were even harder to watch.

Heck, even John Calipari wouldn’t recruit that fearless fivesome.

Not that they were bad choices, mind you. The second team was far uglier.

Castle was a near-unanimous choice as Rookie of the Year despite averaging just 14.7 points, shooting 29 percent on 3-pointers, and playing for a team that, despite the presence of Victor Wembanyama, failed to make the playoffs.

If last year’s rookie class had anything going for it

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