Former Oakland men's basketball standout Kendrick Nunn earned runner-up for NBA Rookie of the Year honors the league announced Thursday. 

Memphis Grizzlies' Ja Morant was announced the winner of the rookie of the year award for 2019-20.New Orleans' Zion Williamson was third. 
 
Nunn, who was undrafted, averaged 15.3 points in 67 regular-season games — all starts — for the Heat. 

The balloting took place in July, before the season restarted at Walt Disney World. Games that occurred through March 11, the day the league shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, were the ones taken into account by voting panel of sports writers and broadcasters.