Kevin Wayne Durant (born September 29, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He has won an NBA championship, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two Olympic gold medals.
 Durant has also been selected to seven All-NBA teams and eight NBA All-Star teams.
Steven Funaki Adams (born 20 July 1993) is a New Zealand professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 After playing college basketball for Pittsburgh, he was labelled a top international prospect for the NBA.
 Adams was selected by the Thunder with the 12th overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft.
The "Sporting News" Rookie of the Year Award is an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) award established in 1946 by "Sporting News".
 For the first three years (1946–48) and again in 1950, there was a single award.
 In 1949 and since 1951, the award has been given to a rookie from both the American League and National League.
 In 1961 and from 1963 through 2003, "Sporting News" split the rookie award into two separate categories, Rookie Pitcher of the Year and Rookie Player of the Year (in each league).
 In 2004 those two awards were discontinued, in favor of a single award, one for each league.
Pau Gasol Sáez (] , ] ; born July 6, 1980) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He is a six-time NBA All-Star, and a four-time All-NBA selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team.
 He has won two NBA championships, both with the Los Angeles Lakers.
 He was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies, one of only three non-American NBA players to win that award.
 He is the older brother of fellow NBA player Marc Gasol.
The highest-paid NBA players by season over the past twelve seasons have received contracts with salaries noted in the twenty-million-dollar range.
 In this twelve-year span, Kevin Garnett received $28,000,000, which was the highest salary payment of any NBA player, during the 2003–04 season.
 Garnett has been the highest-paid NBA player per year in seven of the past twelve NBA seasons.
 Michael Jordan was the first NBA player to sign a contract worth over thirty million dollars in a season.
 During the 1997–98 season, Jordan earned $33,000,000.
 Kobe Bryant become just the second player to reach this milestone when the 2013–14 season began.
 LeBron James became the third in the 2016–17 season.
 Stephen Curry became the first player to eclipse $40-Million per year when he signed a record 5 year contract worth $201-Million in 2017.
The Pacific Coast League Rookie of the Year Award is an annual award given to the best rookie player in minor league baseball's Pacific Coast League.
 Managers from the 16 Pacific Coast League teams and media representatives in each city across the league vote for the winner of the award.
 In 1998, Jeremy Giambi won the first ever Pacific Coast League Rookie of the Year Award.
In the United States, Major League Soccer (MLS) has handed out a Rookie of the Year Award since its inception in 1996.
 MLS, as opposed to other American sports leagues like Major League Baseball, only designates a player as a rookie if the player has had no prior professional experience.
 So, for example, although Taylor Twellman finished second in MVP voting in 2002, he was ineligible for the Rookie of the Year Award because he had played on the reserve team of 1860 Munich.
The National Basketball League Rookie of the Year was an annual National Basketball League (NBL) award given every year between 1992 and 2016 to the best performing rookie New Zealander of the regular season.
 The award was originally given to the best Young Player of the Year from 1986 until 1991, with centre Warren Adams winning the award twice within four years.
 In 1992, forward Pero Cameron won the league's first Rookie of the Year award.
 This name stood until 2005, when a slight adjustment to the rules saw the Rookie of the Year opened up to any player under the age of 20, with guard Jarrod Kenny (age 19) winning the 2005 Young Player of the Year.
 This was changed back to Rookie of the Year in 2006, and remained every year until 2016 when it was disbanded in 2017.
 Current NBA player, Steven Adams, won the 2011 Rookie of the Year award; Steven is the half-brother of two-time Young Player of the Year, Warren Adams.
Alvan Leigh Adams (born July 19, 1954) is an American retired professional basketball player.
 After starring at the University of Oklahoma, the 6'9" (2.06 m) power forward/center was selected by the Phoenix Suns with the 4th pick of the 1975 NBA draft.
 Adams was a rookie on a Suns team whose season included an improbable playoff run that took them all the way to the 1976 NBA Finals.
 In the same year, he was selected to play in the All-Star Game and won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award as well as being named to the All-NBA Rookie Team.
 Adams spent his entire career with the Suns and retired in 1988 as the second all-time Suns scorer with 13,910 career points.
Damon Lamon Stoudamire (born September 3, 1973) is an American retired professional basketball player and the current head men's basketball coach at the University of the Pacific.
 The 5 ft , 171 lb point guard was selected with the 7th overall pick by the Toronto Raptors in the 1995 NBA draft and won the 1995–96 NBA Rookie of the Year Award.
 He played collegiately at the University of Arizona, and professionally for the Toronto Raptors, Portland Trail Blazers, Memphis Grizzlies and San Antonio Spurs.
 He is the cousin of former Arizona Wildcats standout Salim Stoudamire and current NBA player Terrence Jones.

Question: The NBA player who won the 2011 Rookie of the Year award was born in what month?
Answer: July