It's that time in the NBA offseason once more where NBA players and officials from around the league are asking to fill out several different surveys on several different topics.

The 2017-2018 rookie class was up to fill out their annual survey, and they asked a variety of questions including which current player in the NBA do they adore the most.

The rookies also voted on who will be the Rookie of the Year, who will have the best career, who will be the biggest draft steal, who is the most athletic, the best shooter, the best defender, the best playmaker, what the toughest adjustment to NBA will be for them, and the most important skill they need to develop in NBA. 

For the past three years, Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant, while he was still at the Oklahoma City Thunder, was the incoming rookies' favorite player in the league, but this year, the results were very different.

NBA.com announced that the rookies had picked LeBron James as their favorite player with 31.5% of the vote. This is only the second time the Cleveland Cavaliers star was named the rookies' favorite player, 2012 was the other, in the eight years that the league has asked this question.

Thunder's and NBA MVP Russell Westbrook was second with 19.4% of the vote, while San Antonio Spurs' Kawhi Leonard rounded off the top three with 8.3% of the vote.

Positions fourth to eighth were as follows: Houston Rockets' James Harden with 6.5%, Warriors' Durant and Draymond Green with both 5.6%, New Orleans Pelicans' Anthony Davis with 4.2%, and Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving with 3.7%.

Other players that received votes but didn't make it into the top eight include New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony, Minnesota Timberwolves' Jamal Crawford, Spurs' Pau Gasol, Thunder's Paul George, Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin and Charlotte Hornets' Dwight Howard.

What fans might have spotted is that there is a surprising omission from the rookies' favorite players in the league today, two-time NBA MVP and Golden State star Steph Curry. Not a single incoming rookie selected him as their favorite player in the league today, which is surprising.

Curry will have to step up his game, surprisingly, to make sure he impresses and gets at least one vote from next year's rookie draft class when they arrive in the NBA!