Rookie guard Tyreke Evans has taken the star-starved Kings kingdom by storm.

However, folks must calm down with the hype and allow the 20-year old to first experience his job environment and then learn. In fact, it's the vision of what a matured Evans could become that should provide Kings fans the most excitement.

Kings scouting director Scotty Stirling says Evans reminds him of Miami all-star guard Dwayne Wade.

"He's ahead of the curve," Stirling said of Evans, who is averaging 20.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, five assists and 1.5 steals. "And the excitement about him is what's beyond the curve."

Already he is being anointed as a potential all-star in this February’s All-Star Game in Dallas. Being mentioned among the league's top guards truly is deserved just 26 games and less than two months into his pro career.

Evans said Tuesday he entered his rookie forward to being on the same floor with the likes of Chris Paul, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.

"I just wanted to go up against those stars on the floor."

Evans fared well against Paul in two meetings this season and goes against James and the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight at Arco. He faced Bryant during the preseason and again will meet him Saturday when the Los Angeles Lakers come to Sacramento. 

Those hyper-active supporters should first check out Utah’s Deron Williams. The fifth-year, 25-year old point guard is averaging 9.5 assists, 18.5 points, was a member of the U.S. gold medal winning 2008 Olympic team and never has made an all-star team.

That’s in part because, in no particular order, of this list- Bryant, Phoenix’s Steve Nash, Dallas’ Jason Kidd, San Antonio’s Tony Parker, New Orleans’ Chris Paul, Denver’s Chauncey Billups, Portland’s Brandon Roy.  Include Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant (the league’s No. 4 scorer, and Houston’s Tracy McGrady, who could possibly be unjustly voted into the starting lineup despite playing in just four games to date, and Evans likely has a slim chance of making this season’s Western Conference squad.

Evans, barring injury, likely will become a perennial all-star, probably beginning next season.

However, assistant coach Mario Elie says Evans deserves to be in the discussion.

"I believe he definitely should be in the discussion," said Elie, an 11-year NBA veteran who won two NBA championships with Houston and one with San Antonio. "He's been holding his own with anybody he's played against. He plays both ends of the floor and he's got that swagger and confidence  to rise to the occasion. Tyreke can be having an off-day, but when the fourth quarter comes and we need him, he's there. You can't say that about everybody and especially, not a 20-year-old."

The 6-6, 220-pounder will remind true old-heads of players such as the late Super John Williamson and the late John Brisker. These two guards – both of whom starred in the old American Basketball Association – dominated with strength as well as skill. Evans has a knack of getting to the basket and finishing with regularity.

Kings player personnel director Jerry Reynolds said Evans reminds him of former New York Knicks guards Micheal Ray Richardson and Walt Frazier.

"His game is more like Micheal Ray but his demeanor is more like Frazier's," Reynolds said.

In fact, consider me blasphemous, Evans reminds some at times of Oscar Robertson, a former member of the franchise whom many NBA observers considered the greatest player in league history pre-Michael Jordan. Perhaps that because Evans often goes on the floor where he wants when he wants despite defenders knowing exactly what he wants to do.

It used to be said if you gave Robertson a 15-footer, he wanted a 10-footer. Give him an eight-footer and he wanted a four-footer and so on and so on.

Evans does over-dribble and can force the issue. Those penchants will decrease as he understands how defenses are playing him, how he’s taking an unnecessary beating by larger defenders and how the ability to take and make the open 15-foot shot makes him semi-indefensible.

Yet Kings observers marvel at his ability to recognize situations.

Kings assistant coach Bryan Gates said Evans was shown an adjustment during last week's victory over Washington and then made it minutes later.

"He made the adjustment and hit Jason Thompson for a basket and I think that was the most excited I'd seen him until (Monday night)."

Evans helped lead the Kings back from a 35-point third-quarter deficit to defeat the Chicago Bulls and again dominated the game's final minutes at each end of the floor.

He gets to the basket and finishes around the basket with unique footwork that he's borrowed after watching San Antonio's Manu Ginobili.

"I watched his films and highlights and then kept working on it until i got better at it," Evans said.

Evans also rebounds, defends in one-on-one situations (especially well for a rookie) and plays the passing lanes solidly with his 6-11 wingspan.

All that – and again he’s played in 26 games. He’s been annointed the season’s 2009-10 Rookie of the Year by overzealous admirers.

Let’s start with the Rookie of Almost Two Months. That’s good enough, isn’t it, for Unique Tyreke Evans, who was playing high-school hoops two years ago.