Chapter 236: The Cursed Award
How to describe the NBA's regular season schedule after All-Star Weekend every year.
A simple sentence is all that will do.
The entire northwest of Shanxi is in a mess!
I almost touched the first eight gates and wanted to climb in.
Almost able to have a playoff home advantage and want to compete for the upper circle.
As for the fact that the top of the rankings has opened up a lot of winning differences, we can't relax at this time, and we have to maintain good chemistry to win all the games that should be won.
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In order to snatch back the second place in the East.
The menacing Bucks continued to pick off one opponent after another.
After 4 consecutive wins, another wave of 6 consecutive wins has reached the first 10-game winning streak of the season, which is also the first time in the past six seasons that the Bucks have played a 10-game winning streak.
What's even more exaggerated is that in this wave of six consecutive wins, the Bucks can average 118 points per game, ranking second in the league, only 1.4 points less than the Suns.
The firepower bonus brought by Michael Reed is obvious.
In the past two weeks, Yi Jianlian's performance was still very comprehensive, with 26.5 points, 7.2 rebounds, 9.9 assists, 1.7 steals and 1.8 blocks.
In addition to the score, all other data have increased.
However, Yi Jianlian only got one of the best of the week in the past two weeks, and one was taken by LeBron!
On March 10, in the Cavaliers' game against the Kings, LeBron James scored 51 points to lead the team to victory, reversing the 25-point difference.
Plus this week, the Cavaliers won all three games.
This Week of the Week ended up going to LeBron James as it should be.
And LeBron has also become the only player in the NBA other than Yi Jianlian to score 50 points twice in a single season this season.
It's just a pity that so far, the highest score of this season is still Yi Jianlian's 54 points.
Although Yi Jianlian failed to win the best of the week, there is still good news.
The Bucks' ten-game winning streak finally pushed the Magic back to third in the East, and they climbed to second in the East, but it will be a little difficult to surpass the Cavaliers in the future.
The latter has won more than 60 games so far, with an overall record of 60 wins and 11 losses, the only team in the league with 60 wins so far, and even the Lakers, who are the first team in the West, are only 58-13 for the time being.
The Bucks' record is even worse than the Lakers', currently only 54-17, six wins behind the Cavaliers. Seeing that there are only 11 games left in the regular season, with the current momentum of the Cavaliers, the Bucks want to surpass them, and there is only a theoretical possibility left.
Because of this, many experts have decided that the candidate for this year's regular season MVP has been determined, and it must be LeBron James.
"Although Yi's performance in this season is really amazing, it is a pity that LeBron is not worse than him, and LeBron has not won the regular season MVP trophy so far, so if the regular season MVP of the 08~09 season is not unexpected, it should be LeBron James!"
This is the argument of most experts.
The meaning is very clear, although Yi Jianlian also played an MVP-level season performance, LeBron has not yet won his regular season MVP, so this time it is a pity that LeBron James, who has a better team record, will win the regular season MVP this time.
Of course, this is expected, and it can also be seen from the ranking of the league's official MVP list that the teams of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, who ranked first and second, are the two teams with the best records in the league, and when LeBron rose from second to first on the MVP list, it was also when the Cavaliers' record officially surpassed the Lakers.
However, Milwaukee fans are not disappointed, for them, the current Bucks record and Yi Jianlian's growth rate is far beyond their expectations.
They are already satisfied.
As for this year's regular season MVP, it's a surprise to get it, and there's no way to get it.
"If Yi can continue to perform like this next season, the regular season MVP will definitely be him!"
But they believe that with Yi Jianlian's strength, sooner or later they will win a regular season MVP for Milwaukee.
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But Yi Jianlian has such a brilliant season, what award should be given? In the end, it's a bit unreasonable to be empty-handed.
"Maybe the Most Improved Player of the Season award can be given to Yi!" Charles Barkley said in a recent interview, "We always say how good Yi has been this season, and then subconsciously think that Danny Granger is the most improved player this season!" ”
“why? Why can't it be easy? ”
Charles Barkley's words made many fans react, yes! There's also the Most Improved Player Award! Yi Jianlian's performance this season is so good, can't he get the regular season MVP, and can't he get the fastest improvement award?
Even Danny Granger, who has been defaulted to by most people, averaged 19.6 points, 2.1 assists, 6.1 rebounds, 1.1 steals and 1 block per game last season to 25.8 points, 2.7 assists, 5.1 rebounds, 1 steal and 1.4 blocks per game this season.
But the rise of Keyi Jianlian's data is even more obvious than him.
He averaged 21.3 points, 6 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 0.9 steals and 1.5 blocks per game last season to 28.1 points, 6.8 rebounds, 8.2 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.7 blocks per game this season.
Moreover, Yi Jianlian's data increase is an all-round increase.
This is obviously more suitable for the "Most Improved Player Award"!
"Yi is definitely the most improved player award, even if the league compensates Yi, it will give him this award!"
"It's really unfair not to win the Most Improved Player Award!"
"You should give a prize, right? Yi's performance this season is so impressive! ”
"ESPN" sorted out the above data and published it, and all of a sudden, most of the fans immediately recognized Yi Jianlian to win the "Most Improved Player Award", and the call reached its peak.
But after Yi Jianlian learned the news, he wanted to cry without tears, what kind of grudge do I have with you, and you want to hurt me like this?
He really didn't like this "Fastest Player Award"!
In his opinion, this is a cursed award.
Since 2000, few of the players who have won this award have had a successful career!
Maddie in '01, who has suffered injuries throughout his career, has recently been out for the season.
O'Neal Jr. in 02 is also plagued by various knee injuries.
03 Arenas ......
04 Zach Randolph ......
Including last year's "Most Improved Player Award" Turkoglou went to the Raptors for his wife and money, fell to the bottom again, and never got up again.
And Danny Granger, who was supposed to be the "Most Improved Player Award" this season, was also reimbursed for various seasons, and when he came back, Paul George would be the boss.
Looking back on the experience of these winners one by one, Yi Jianlian feels that his gums are sour, and his bad life is that he really can't support the "Most Improved Player Award"!
"Who proposed that I win the Most Improved Player award first?" Yi Jianlian asked.
"Charles Barkley!"
Buckley NMSL!