NBA Rookie Survey: Parker the Rookie of the Year favorite, Durant favorite player, and more

While NBA Rookie Photo Day was a lot of fun, the league's rookie symposium also comes with some very deep, serious, introspective thought for incoming freshman. You don't take the NBA Rookie Survey lightly and go on to have success as a professional, after all.

In reality, the NBA's annual rookie survey is just some fun summer filler. 

This years' survey, however, has a few interesting results, namely that Kobe Bryant has been usurped as the rookies' favorite player. Not by LeBron James, though, by Kevin Durant. In the 2007 survey, Durant was voted as the likely Rookie of the Year, and is now the player most likely to be rookies' first choice in NBA 2K franchise mode.

Also of note is that Jabari Parker was voted as the likely Rookie of the Year, in addition to the best long-term prospect in the class.

You can check out the full voting results at NBA.com, but below are some highlights:

• Parker received 52.8 percent of votes for ROY, well ahead of Doug McDermott and Andrew Wiggins (8.3 percent each).
• Parker got 45.9 percent of votes for "best career," with McDermott coming in second (13.5 percent) and Wiggins all the way down in a tie for fourth (5.4 percent).
• Zach LaVine (56.6 percent) was voted most athletic. Duh.
• K.J. McDaniels and Marcus Smart (13.5 percent each) got the nod as best defender; Tyler Ennis (24.3 percent) was best playmaker, while McDermott (39.5 percent) was voted best shooter.
• Joel Embiid (20 percent) was named funniest, but somehow didn't get 100 percent of the votes, which means this survey is useless.
• Durant received 25 percent of "favorite player" votes, ahead of Bryant (19.4 percent), James (12.5 percent), and a few others, including Giannis Antetokounmpo (looking at you, Thanasis).