This year's NBA rookies won't revolutionize the league like the class of 1984, which featured Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley and John Stockton. Chances are, it won't upset basketball's cultural applecart like Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant did in 1996. Nor can it be expected to usher in a new era of talent to an Association in transition, as LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh did in 2003.
But when hoops historians pen the game's next tome, they may look back at the class of 2015 as the one that strengthened basketball's shift toward skill and versatility.
The current crop of rookies covers all the biggest bases that mark the modern game: bigs with range on both ends of the floor, guards who can create for themselves and their teammates and wings with the ability to attack the basket and defend multiple positions.
Tall, Long and Skilled All Over
The headliners in this year's group, Karl-Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Kristaps Porzingis of the New York Knicks, fit the first of those three archetypes to a tee.
Towns' impressiv ...
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