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Chapter 488 Unanimous MVP, Eastern Conference Finals, Aiyo!
With a world-shaking demeanor, he displayed the majesty of a king.
And for the past two years, in the North Shore Garden arena that symbolized the NBA's hegemony...
He carried on with a heavy burden, enduring the most heartbreaking and bone-piercing pain in the world.
The stumbling blocks on the road to kingship have never been those nameless people who tried to kill the king with their pens and keyboards.
The land ten thousand six hundred kilometers away is his hometown of twenty-five years.
The square of four hundred and thirty-six square meters is his stage for forty-eight minutes.
When that eighteen-year-old Eastern boy first stepped onto the NBA stage...
When that nineteen-year-old Philadelphia boy drew his sword and stabbed Michael Jordan...
When that twenty-one-year-old King of the North first ascended the throne...
The human world is filled with ordinary joys, and the mountains and rivers are vast!
Tonight...
The king returns, the legend is immortal!”
On May 9th, the NBA officially announced the winners of the major awards for the 02/03 regular season, and Balbas, a columnist for ESPN, wrote in his personal column.
In this year's highly anticipated regular season MVP selection, Su Feng won all the first-place votes.
And this...
Is a first in NBA history.
Yes, you read that right.
Whether it's "Basketball Emperor" Chamberlain, or "Basketball God" Jordan, or "Magic" Johnson, "Pretender King" Bird, "Skyhook" Jabbar, "Dream" Olajuwon...
All the NBA superstars and Hall of Fame members you are familiar with have never been unanimously elected MVP in a certain year.
Of course, there is a very important reason why Su Feng was able to win all the first-place votes this year, because the NBA introduced a real-name voting system for the first time this year.
Due to being constantly complained about "black box operations" in the past two years, Stern simply threw all the blame to the judges this year.
Anyway, the meaning of this Jewish old man is already very obvious.
That is:
If there are any more "black box operations" in the future, it will be the fault of these "idiot" judges.
Look...
Stern, who is good at taking the blame for players, is also so skilled in the use of the skill of shirking responsibility.
However, no matter how the selection process is, you cannot refute the gold content of this unanimous MVP that Su Feng won.
Because in the eyes of the fans, he should have won his third MVP in his personal career long ago.
It's just...
Su Feng never expected that he could create the myth of "unanimous MVP" this year.
And this, I have to mention Stern's superb skill in promoting people.
In the past two years, by creating opponents for Su Feng, on the surface, Su Feng did encounter unfairness.
However, all of this, after being detonated through various coincidences this year, has become:
"Judges who don't vote for Su Feng for the first place should be dragged to the stake."
Stern knows that it is not easy for American fans to accept an NBA dominated by international players from the bottom of their hearts.
Even if this person is Su Feng, who defeated their "God of Basketball" back then.
In addition, personal honors, right...
Once there is a monopoly, it will become very boring.
Therefore, after Stern suppressed the emotions of the fans for two years through his balancing act...
As Su Feng righteously announced that he would leave Toronto after this season, and those things between him and the American national goddess...
In an instant, American fans stupidly got into the trap that Stern had carefully prepared for them.
And at this time...
Which judge would dare to be so boring and put himself on the barbecue rack?
Therefore, even if Su Feng only played 69 games this season, even if Su Feng's performance this year is not the best year in his past few years...
Voting him first has become a matter of course.
Because, this is the story Stern wants to portray for people.
And this is also the story that fans are willing and want to hear.
The 25-year-old Su Feng returned to his throne.
Before his new journey begins, in people's eyes, this is both a blessing to him and an honor he deserves.
And now...
Look, are there any fans who would say that Su Feng's MVP as the youngest player was not worth much?
And Detroit.
Because the Raptors will play two consecutive games at the Pistons' home court next, the Raptors' management does not intend to hold an awards ceremony and press conference for His Majesty the King on the road.
After all, at such an important moment for the King's acceptance speech...
Even if they have to hold it in, the Toronto management will have to wait until after the start of the Eastern Conference Finals before returning to the home court to hold a grand awards ceremony for Su Feng.
In addition to Su Feng being unanimously elected as the regular season MVP of the 02/03 season, Da Ben also successfully won his first Defensive Player of the Year award in his personal career this year.
Thanks to the Raptors' league-leading offensive and defensive rhythm, Da Ben's performance in rebounds, blocks, and steals this year is absolutely phenomenal.
In addition, Raptors coach John Davis was also named Coach of the Year this year.
The Best Sixth Man was won by Raptors youngster Parker, who averaged 11.6 points, 5.4 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game.
I have to say, the Raptors have once again become the number one winner in the selection of various awards this year.
In Su Feng's view, this is somewhat of Stern's intention to compensate this Raptors team.
As for this year's Most Improved Player Award and Rookie of the Year, they were won by Arenas and Stoudemire respectively.
The former, like Su Feng remembered, played his wonderful performance when he filmed commercials this year.
The latter successfully led the Cavaliers to dive into the bottom of the Eastern Conference.
That is, in the case that the Cavaliers will 100% get the No. 1 pick...
Su Feng is very curious, will Stoudemire say at that time that the team chose James to assist him...
Of course, these are all jokes.
Because what Ricky Davis wanted to express back then was not that at all.
Compared with being unanimously elected as the regular season MVP, what makes Su Feng the happiest...
I am afraid it has to be the selection result of the best team.
In this year's Best Team First Team selection, O'Neal, Duncan, Su Feng, McGrady, and Iverson were favored by the judges.
There is nothing to say about the first three.
In the past few years, you can basically see the names of these three in the NBA Best Team First Team.
And the latter two...
With the performance that McGrady played this year, coupled with the blessing of his "Sun King" status, is there any problem with him being selected into the Best Team First Team?
As for Iverson, after reducing his ball possession on the court this year, he has also been unanimously praised by the media.
emmmm.
This mainly refers to the Chinese media represented by Director Zhang.
Because when broadcasting the games of the Sixers during the regular season, Director Zhang has praised more than once that Iverson's choices on the court are very reasonable.
"Hey, no! Where's my Kobe?
Where's my Kobe?"
After appreciating the selection results of the Best First Team, you may not believe it...
Opening the second page, Su Feng didn't see Kobe's name either.
02/03 season, the selection results of the NBA Best Team Second Team are as follows:
Da Ben, Garnett, Pierce, Carter, Nash.
It was not until the third page that Su Feng saw the name of his poor buddy.
02/03 season, the selection results of the NBA Best Team Third Team are as follows:
Yao Ming, Jermaine O'Neal, Nowitzki, Kobe, Kidd.
"Tsk tsk! Third Team guard!
Is this the strength of the Lakers' leading scorer Kobe Bryant?"
This day, if Kobe's phone had not been unreachable...
Su Feng really planned to call Kobe for twenty-four hours to celebrate Kobe's advancement from the First Team guard to the Third Team.
Um!
In mathematics, three is greater than one, this is common sense, right?
So, how can a Third Team guard not be considered progress?
It's just...
Just when Su Feng was gloating, how could he have imagined that Kobe was also humiliated by the judges in this year's Best Defensive Team!
02/03 season, the selection results of the NBA Best Defensive Team are as follows:
First Team: Da Ben, Duncan, Su Feng, Christie, McGrady.
Second Team: O'Neal, Garnett, Artest, Kidd, Snow.
In the regular season, after the Sixers happily won the runner-up in the Eastern Conference this year, the iron-blooded defense line composed of Christie and Snow finally entered the judges' field of vision.
And Kobe...
Because in the games against McGrady and Su Feng, he successively allowed these two to score 40+ and 50+ points respectively, coupled with the Lakers' decline in record this season...
Therefore, in Su Feng's view, Kobe's failure to be selected was somewhat of an impression made by the judges.
So now the question comes.
Why was O'Neal successfully selected into the Best Defensive Second Team, but Kobe was ignored?
Hey...
Isn't that because in the games where O'Neal was out, in order to prove to someone that he was the boss of the Lakers, Kobe began to awaken the DNA in his bones?
As a result, with Kidd choosing to slack off, Kobe can't count on Fisher to save him, right?
And after O'Neal returned from recuperation, this situation became even more embarrassing.
Because don't look at the constant bickering between the "OK" duo, but the bodies of these two are much more honest than their mouths.
So, this wave...
This wave is the legendary, the credit after winning the game goes to O'Neal, and the blame for losing the game is all borne by Kobe.
How infuriating!
It's okay to be rated as the fifth point guard by a unscrupulous media at the beginning of the regular season!
Why should he, Kobe, be humiliated by the judges during the awards selection?
And...
Why can Su Feng be unanimously elected as the regular season MVP?
You must know that this season, in order to prove himself, Kobe even chose not to take a vacation after Vanessa gave birth!
And for this, who knows how much he paid behind his back for kneeling on the washboard?
But what about the result?
The result is that the heroic spirit of the Philadelphia man is not worth mentioning during the awards selection.
"Hey, Tracy, congratulations on becoming a 'Double First Team Player' again.
Oh, by the way, did you get through to Kobe's phone?"
This day, because he couldn't get through to Kobe's phone all the time, Su Feng found McGrady, wanting to ask if Kobe was okay now.
Hearing this, McGrady said after congratulating Su Feng on being unanimously elected as the regular season MVP: "I've been calling since this morning, but it's still turned off."
Su Feng: "......"
Damn it!
To be fair.
Su Feng really didn't expect that McGrady could do so much on Kobe's heart.
Because he had been celebrating his unanimous election as MVP in the hotel all morning, Su Feng didn't start his phone bombing on Kobe until the afternoon.
However...
This McGrady, he actually...
He actually wanted to stab Kobe's heart from the morning?
Well done!
However, taking pleasure in misfortune is taking pleasure in misfortune.
For Su Feng, he is still very concerned about whether Kobe will be depressed because of this.
"Hey, what are you thinking...
With Kobe's character, if he would be depressed, then I might as well expect O'Neal to take the initiative to hug my thigh in the future."
In the hotel, after sending Kobe a comforting text message, Su Feng thought to himself.
…
Because the Toronto management does not consider holding an awards ceremony for Su Feng on the road, these days, some reporters who had already prepared manuscripts to praise Su Feng have also temporarily suppressed the manuscripts.
After all...
As the farewell moment of "the.king" in Toronto, these extremely dramatic and sensational manuscripts, in the eyes of the media, will touch people's hearts only when they are released together with His Majesty the King's speech.
On the 10th, in Detroit, the Raptors, who had a great harvest in the selection results, also defeated Rivers' proud steel defense line 131 to 105 in one go on the road.
In this game, the Raptors had as many as 7 players scoring in double figures.
Because the Raptors players felt so good in the game, Rivers also came to a conclusion that day.
That is, no matter how good the defense is, it can't hold up against the opponent's collective cheating.
On the 13th, in the fourth game between the two teams, in order to avoid being swept, Billups and Hamilton took the initiative to stand up this night.
As a result...
Da Ben is at ease.
Having just become the Defensive Player of the Year, he grabbed 22 rebounds when he was taken off the court to rest in the fourth quarter with the help of Billups and Hamilton.
There's no way...
Although Hamilton and Billups' ideas are good...
However, no matter how determined the players are, they cannot change the course of the game when they are not feeling well.
In the end, the Raptors won 119 to 101 that night.
At the same time, they also successfully advanced to the next round with a score of 4 to 0.
On the other side, in the Sixers' semi-final with the Celtics, after Duncan was reimbursed, although the Celtics successfully dragged the Sixers to the sixth game, in the sixth game between the two sides, Iverson and Yao Ming did not give the Celtics any more chances.
Iverson, who returned to the First Team, can make 3.1 three-pointers per game in the Sixers' playoff journey this year.
And he and Yao Ming, who are getting more and more tacit understanding, are still the lone heroes in Su Feng's memory?
Breaking in and hitting a wall?
It's okay!
As long as you throw the ball into the sky like Liu Wei.
Naturally, someone will stand up to solve the problem for Iverson.
And if you want to criticize Liu Wei for being able to do things that Iverson can't do...
That would really be a bit disrespectful to this "183" with the strongest breakthrough ability in NBA history.
At this point, this year's Eastern Conference Finals has also successfully broken the situation that has been monopolized by the Raptors and Celtics for the past four years.
It's just...
For Philadelphia fans, they can't be happy no matter what after the Sixers advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Look...
What is it called that you are more uncomfortable entering the Eastern Conference Finals than not entering the Eastern Conference Finals?
Because in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Sixers will face the Raptors led by Su Feng.
So as the team that once owned Su Feng...
Don't mention how uncomfortable Philadelphia fans are.
gtmd Larry Brown!
Why can this guy still be whitewashed?
Especially why does Su Feng like him so much?
The bitter voices of Philadelphia fans will not be mentioned for the time being.
West...
McGrady, who was still complaining to Su Feng about Kobe on the phone a few days ago, found out in melancholy...
It turns out...
The clown is himself.
This year, after learning from last year's experience and lessons, the Suns hoarded a group of meat shields in the paint.
However, when facing the Timberwolves led by Garnett, their forward group was bitten to pieces by this wolf king.
Fans with a little common sense know that Garnett, who is good at helping defense on the court and has a wide defensive area, is the nemesis of this group of forwards and guards who are good at breakthroughs.
Moreover, after Sprewell's arrival, the problem that this Timberwolves team would drop the chain at critical moments has also been greatly improved.
Coupled with the stable performance of Szczerbiak and Richardson on the outside...
Therefore, after a bloody battle with the Timberwolves for 7 games, McGrady received a call from Kobe next door.
"Yo, may I ask if this is the phone number of Tracy McGrady, the 'Double First Team guard' who was eliminated by the Timberwolves in the Western Conference Semifinals?"
After suppressing it for almost a week, on this day, Kobe finally ushered in his moment of revenge.
In the other Western Conference Semifinals, the Lakers did not give Van Gundy and his Grizzlies any chance.
The young Gasol couldn't stop O'Neal's huge body.
Baron Davis couldn't charge through the steel fortress composed of Kidd and Kobe.
After entering the playoffs, in order to win another championship before leaving, Kidd, who had paddled his way into the Third Team in the regular season, once again showed his strength as the league's No. 1 point guard.
And Toronto, while preparing for the Eastern Conference Finals with the Sixers, after watching the Lakers' recent games...
Su Feng knew that it was far from the time to shout "Raptors are the champions" in advance.
Because under the connection of Kidd's halberd...
For the Raptors, who had swept the Lakers twice in the Finals...
If they can successfully advance to the Finals this year, then what they will face in the Finals will be a completely different team from the Lakers they once defeated.
Of course, before looking forward to the Finals...
Su Feng must first win this round of "Chinese Derby" and "Brother Derby" with Little Yao and Iverson.
According to the schedule, the Eastern Conference Finals g1 between the Raptors and Sixers will start on May 22.
Before the start of this year's Eastern and Western Conference Finals, the most eye-catching thing in the world is probably the draft lottery held on the 21st.
As Su Feng remembered, the Cavaliers really drew the No. 1 pick as if by fate.
The Nuggets also happily got the No. 2 pick.
As for Su Feng's first choice this summer...
The Miami Heat drew the No. 3 pick.
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ps: Today, let’s have a small 5,000-word chapter first, and Qiao will try to have a big explosion at the end of the month tomorrow!
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