which rookie is leading in total assists

VJ Edgecombe has the most assists by a rookie this season, with 34 assists.

Interpreted as:

Which rookie is leading in total assists this regular season?

	NAME	AST	SEASON	TM	GP	MIN	PTS	REB	STL	BLK	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TS%	OREB	DREB	TOV	PF	+/-	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG
1	VJ Edgecombe	34	2025-26	PHI	7	271	134	41	11	2	50	105	47.6	18	41	43.9	16	19	84.2	59.1	14	27	14	22	+36	38.7	19.1	5.9	4.9	1.6	0.3	2.0
2	Dylan Harper D. Harper	23	2025-26	SAS	6	140	84	24	4	0	32	64	50.0	5	14	35.7	15	18	83.3	58.4	5	19	11	18	+48	23.3	14.0	4.0	3.8	0.7	0.0	1.8
3	Jeremiah Fears J. Fears	23	2025-26	NOP	7	176	93	18	10	0	37	81	45.7	8	24	33.3	11	14	78.6	53.4	5	13	14	14	-74	25.1	13.3	2.6	3.3	1.4	0.0	2.0
4	Walter Clayton Jr. W. Clayton Jr.	22	2025-26	UTA	7	121	44	20	5	0	16	37	43.2	6	18	33.3	6	6	100.0	55.5	5	15	7	13	-38	17.3	6.3	2.9	3.1	0.7	0.0	1.0
5	Javon Small J. Small	22	2025-26	MEM	6	97	32	8	0	1	9	26	34.6	6	18	33.3	8	10	80.0	52.6	1	7	8	7	+1	16.2	5.3	1.3	3.7	0.0	0.2	1.3
6	Cooper Flagg C. Flagg	20	2025-26	DAL	7	229	95	44	6	3	33	85	38.8	8	26	30.8	21	21	100.0	50.4	7	37	15	20	-78	32.7	13.6	6.3	2.9	0.9	0.4	2.1
7	Cedric Coward C. Coward	20	2025-26	MEM	8	208	122	40	8	3	42	72	58.3	14	29	48.3	24	26	92.3	73.1	11	29	10	20	+32	26.0	15.3	5.0	2.5	1.0	0.4	1.3
8	Kon Knueppel K. Knueppel	18	2025-26	CHA	8	243	118	46	4	0	42	92	45.7	25	61	41.0	9	11	81.8	60.9	4	42	17	19	+7	30.4	14.8	5.8	2.3	0.5	0.0	2.1
9	Egor Dëmin E. Dëmin	16	2025-26	BKN	6	119	37	18	5	1	12	30	40.0	10	26	38.5	3	4	75.0	58.2	4	14	11	13	-48	19.8	6.2	3.0	2.7	0.8	0.2	1.8
10	Ben Saraf B. Saraf	16	2025-26	BKN	6	94	21	12	2	0	6	26	23.1	3	13	23.1	6	8	75.0	35.6	2	10	9	13	-27	15.7	3.5	2.0	2.7	0.3	0.0	1.5
11	Sion James S. James	12	2025-26	CHA	8	194	70	25	5	3	23	37	62.2	14	20	70.0	10	11	90.9	83.7	3	22	5	12	+23	24.3	8.8	3.1	1.5	0.6	0.4	0.6
12	Tre Johnson T. Johnson	11	2025-26	WAS	7	180	86	24	2	6	32	77	41.6	15	42	35.7	7	7	100.0	53.7	5	19	9	14	-21	25.7	12.3	3.4	1.6	0.3	0.9	1.3
13	Ace Bailey A. Bailey	10	2025-26	UTA	7	122	32	20	2	1	13	44	29.5	2	15	13.3	4	4	100.0	35.0	8	12	8	10	-64	17.4	4.6	2.9	1.4	0.3	0.1	1.1
14	Liam McNeeley L. McNeeley	8	2025-26	CHA	6	64	17	9	1	0	4	12	33.3	2	7	28.6	7	9	77.8	53.3	2	7	4	7	-19	10.7	2.8	1.5	1.3	0.2	0.0	0.7
15	Derik Queen D. Queen	8	2025-26	NOP	7	123	56	37	7	4	20	41	48.8	0	3	0.0	16	21	76.2	55.7	12	25	9	21	-2	17.6	8.0	5.3	1.1	1.0	0.6	1.3
16	Collin Murray-Boyles C. Murray-Boyles	8	2025-26	TOR	6	128	55	20	6	1	22	47	46.8	6	14	42.9	5	7	71.4	54.9	11	9	7	14	-40	21.3	9.2	3.3	1.3	1.0	0.2	1.2
17	Will Richard W. Richard	8	2025-26	GSW	6	82	34	10	8	0	12	19	63.2	5	12	41.7	5	6	83.3	78.6	3	7	4	10	-45	13.7	5.7	1.7	1.3	1.3	0.0	0.7
18	Tyrese Proctor T. Proctor	7	2025-26	CLE	6	72	18	6	4	0	7	26	26.9	2	15	13.3	2	2	100.0	33.5	1	5	5	9	-44	12.0	3.0	1.0	1.2	0.7	0.0	0.8
19	Caleb Love C. Love	6	2025-26	POR	3	26	10	8	0	0	4	15	26.7	2	9	22.2	0	0		33.3	1	7	1	0	+2	8.7	3.3	2.7	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.3
20	Jase Richardson J. Richardson	5	2025-26	ORL	6	28	3	1	0	0	1	5	20.0	0	3	0.0	1	2	50.0	25.5	0	1	3	1	-2	4.7	0.5	0.2	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.5
21	Nique Clifford N. Clifford	5	2025-26	SAC	3	58	10	12	2	3	5	13	38.5	0	2	0.0	0	0		38.5	5	7	1	11	+14	19.3	3.3	4.0	1.7	0.7	1.0	0.3
22	Will Riley W. Riley	5	2025-26	WAS	6	39	14	9	2	0	5	11	45.5	1	4	25.0	3	6	50.0	51.3	0	9	1	1	-9	6.5	2.3	1.5	0.8	0.3	0.0	0.2
23	Noah Penda N. Penda	5	2025-26	ORL	5	45	17	10	1	2	6	11	54.5	2	2	100.0	3	4	75.0	66.6	5	5	2	6	-2	9.0	3.4	2.0	1.0	0.2	0.4	0.4
24	Ryan Kalkbrenner R. Kalkbrenner	5	2025-26	CHA	8	219	73	57	10	19	34	41	82.9	0	0		5	7	71.4	82.8	26	31	13	19	+8	27.4	9.1	7.1	0.6	1.3	2.4	1.6
25	Ryan Nembhard R. Nembhard	5	2025-26	DAL	3	27	10	1	0	0	4	9	44.4	0	2	0.0	2	2	100.0	50.6	1	0	5	2	-25	9.0	3.3	0.3	1.7	0.0	0.0	1.7