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The NBA says they gave it to Don Meineke per this page.
The NBA only has record of one Bill Melchionni, who played for Philly from 1966-68 per his stats page. His Wikipedia page indicates that he was 9 in 1953, never played for the Fort Wayne Pistons, and never won a Rookie of the Year award in any league.
Basketball Reference shows no one named Melchionni on Fort Wayne's roster in 1952-53, but there was a Monk Meineke (Donald E. Meineke).
In short, ESPN is wrong. I see the error on this page. If you go to his ESPN stats page, you see that he was born in 1944. He would have been the first 9-year-old to win Rookie of the Year.
I tried so many spellings of Stoudamire! I see that the regex is " ^(DAMON)?ST[AEIOU]+[DT][AEIO]MIRE". I could never match it because I always ended with "mayer" or "meir" or "maier". (Like Oscar Mayer or Golda Meir.) I even tried "Mighty Mouse"! Might need some flexibility on the last syllable.
The NBA only has record of one Bill Melchionni, who played for Philly from 1966-68 per his stats page. His Wikipedia page indicates that he was 9 in 1953, never played for the Fort Wayne Pistons, and never won a Rookie of the Year award in any league.
Basketball Reference shows no one named Melchionni on Fort Wayne's roster in 1952-53, but there was a Monk Meineke (Donald E. Meineke).
In short, ESPN is wrong. I see the error on this page. If you go to his ESPN stats page, you see that he was born in 1944. He would have been the first 9-year-old to win Rookie of the Year.