unfinished glory

Chapter 77 Awards
The first award for the regular season of the 2004-2005 season was awarded on May 5, and Ben Wallace of the Detroit Pistons won the title of best defensive player.This is the third time Big Ben has won the honor in the past four years.

The "Best Defensive Player" was selected by journalists and broadcasters in the United States and Canada. There were 125 voters this time.Each judge selects three players, the first pick gets 5 points, the second pick gets 3 points, and the third pick gets 1 point.

Ben Wallace got 45 first-place votes for a total of 339 points, while Bowen of the Spurs came in second with 247 points.

No.3 is still a player of the Spurs, Duncan scored 148 points.And Li Chongxiao got 3 first votes and ranked sixth with 49 points, which surprised many people.

But carefully comparing the data of the Spurs, they averaged 97.4 points per game in the regular season. The Pistons are as much as 14 points lower.

Such defensive data and defensive strength are not only the result of team defense, but also based on the strong individual defense capabilities of Duncan, Bowen and Li Chongxiao.

Some reporters said that if it wasn't for Li Chongxiao's immature performance in the first half of the season, coupled with his rookie status, this ranking might be even higher.

However, Li Chongxiao is already very satisfied. He is somewhat self-aware. Knowing such a result, he somewhat has some credit for his outstanding performance in sweeping the Grizzlies in the playoffs.

The awards for the regular season are not announced until the first round of the playoffs. These media judges will more or less look at the performance of the players in the playoffs, and it is impossible to completely eliminate interference.

What Li Chongxiao was dissatisfied with was the media who ranked his good friend Duncan too low.

This season, Duncan averaged 20.2 points, 12.1 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game. With such a performance, Duncan has played 8 seasons since entering the league.

In several interviews, Li Chongxiao complained that the media's inertial thinking is too strong. The great player in front of him can get the data of 20+10+2 every season since he entered the league, but he can't get one. Best Defensive Player trophy.

The media always think that it is normal for Duncan to play this kind of data, and habitually ignore Duncan's great performance on the defensive end every night.

The media had no idea about Li Chongxiao's complaint.They are used to it.

They don't care about Duncan being elected as the best defensive player at all. There will be such complaints every year, but this year a new rookie came out to speak.

And this rookie is what they pay more attention to. Li Chongxiao entered the top ten ranks of the best defensive players, which is a bit comparable to Duncan in the first year, and the number of reporters around him suddenly increased.

Journalists are well-informed people who have sniffed out big news.

The next day, the same kind of judges selected the best sixth man of the season, and Li Chongxiao ranked in the top three.

After being selected this season, the Bulls' prospect, Ben Gordon, played all 82 games in the regular season, started 3 times, and averaged 15.1 points per game.With such performance, he won a high score of 125 points (out of 476) given by 625 judges, and he was undisputedly awarded the title of the best sixth man.

Ricky Davis of the Boston Celtics finished second with 212 points.

In a rookie class, two players entered the top three of the best sixth man. This is a good topic, and it is already worthy of special mention.

And there is Li Chongxiao, a native of China, who was picked at No. 28 in the second round of the draft, but ranked sixth among the best defensive players and third among the best sixth men. This is another breaking point.

The matter is not over yet, three awards in three days.

On May 5th, the NBA officially announced the best rookie of the season. The Charlotte Bobcats' No. 4 Emeka Okafor won the first vote from 64 judges and won the best rookie award with 462 points. .

This time Ben Gordon won the second place, and Li Chongxiao was the third!

Li Chongxiao scored 208 points, beating the Magic's Dwight Howard's 161 points, leaving the latter in fourth place.

Howard scored a double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds, but he couldn't even rank in the top three.

During the award presentation for three consecutive days, Li Chongxiao became more topical.

Although Ben Gordon won the best sixth man and the ranking of the best rookie is still higher than Li Chongxiao, but he is the third highest pick in the draft, and it seems natural to achieve such an achievement.

In the long history of the NBA, there are many rookies who won a team, MVP, and FMVP in their rookie season. A best sixth man is not enough to see.

But it is very rare for a rookie who was almost eliminated from the NBA to get three "nominations".What's more, this rookie is too young. Li Chongxiao, who was born on June 1986, 6, is still under 6 years old.

All of a sudden, the Spurs' training ground was full of reporters, some even chased him near his home. Every reporter seemed to want to dig out some secrets about him to increase the sales of the newspaper.

Originally, due to the black whistle in the game between the Rockets and the Mavericks, the NBA's popularity in the country was a little quiet, and this will become popular again.

Domestic basketball fans watch the Rockets' games first as hot and then as cold.Due to the existence of black whistle, there was even more scolding on the forum.Some Yao Hei, who went against the trend, pretended to be fair and babbled a few words, but they were all attacked by angry netizens and ran away.

Seeing the ratings drop and the popularity drop, Li Chongxiao's brilliant performance in various competitions was regarded as a life-saving straw, and was hung on the headlines in big bold letters.

Once again, there was a wave of Chinese media in San Antonio. There was a constant stream of guns and short guns every day, and the request for an exclusive interview with Li Chongxiao continued, which made several of Li Chongxiao's assistants very busy.

Li Chongxiao rejected everything and only accepted routine interviews. He has been silently rehearsing the coach's tactics and actively preparing for the Western Conference semifinals.

……

The most important award of the regular season was announced in the early morning of May 5th. The Suns won the regular season MVP of the NBA 8~2004 game by Steve Nash.

In his first season back in Phoenix, he led the Suns to a 63-19 record, the best record in franchise history.

Also voted by media judges in the United States and Canada, Nash received 887 votes, slightly ahead of O'Neill's 806 votes.

Ranked third is Duncan with 488 votes. He also led the team to the best record in team history, but the second half of the regular season was a rotation, which not only dragged down his statistics, but also dragged down his impression points. .

Duncan didn't complain, he was already very calm about his personal honor.

But O'Neal was not calm. He was worried about Nash actually surpassing himself to win the regular season MVP. Not only did he appear to disapprove in the media, but he even called his friends to complain.

Li Chongxiao received his call, and O'Neill said to Li Chongxiao on the phone: "The Niubaobao team is not your opponent at all, and that jerk can't stop Tim at all.

I predict that you can solve the game in five games at most. When it comes to the Western Conference Finals, teach me the Suns and let the stupid media see who is the real MVP. "

(End of this chapter)