season, Stoudemire averaged 13.5 points and 8.8 rebounds per game, with a high of 38 points, against the Minnesota Timberwolves on December 30, 2002, the highest score by a prep-to-pro player until broken a year later by LeBron James. Stoudemire won the NBA's Rookie of the Year award, beating out Houston Rockets center Yao Ming and Miami Heat forward Caron Butler and becoming the first player ever drafted out of high school to win the award. During the 2004-05 NBA season, Stoudemire ...