"Huh, best defensive player?" On May 6, 2006, just after all the games in the first round of the 05-06 playoffs were over, many awards for the 05-06 regular season were released one by one, but what was surprising was that Meng Xu won the best defensive player of the season for a second consecutive year, and after winning the best defensive player of the season, Meng Xu tied for Dicambe Mutombo and became the second star in NBA history to win the best defensive player four times.

The NBA league introduced a rule in favor of outside players at the beginning of this season, so Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Gilbert Arenas, these outside super scorers, have seen a blowout increase in scoring data this season, and even LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, these rising stars, their average points per game have also soared this season, but Meng Xu, who has won the scoring title three times in the past four seasons, Meng Xu, who averaged 32 points per game last season, only averaged 27 points per game this season, and only ranked seventh on the scoring list after the end of the season.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the reduction of the role on the offensive end that Meng Xu can put more energy on the defensive end, averaging 4 steals per game and 2.7 blocks per game are all career highs, 325 steals and 219 blocks in a single season, and it is the first time in NBA history that he has set a record of 300+ steals and 200+ blocks in a single season.

An outside player has 219 blocks in a single season, which seems to be a very appalling thing, but this season's NBA has also produced a more perverted and terrifying player than Meng Xu, Salt Lake City Jazz small forward Andrei Kirilenko, who has only played 63 games, has delivered as many as 220 blocks, and the average number of blocks per game is as high as 3.2, not only that, Andrei Kirilenko also won this season's NBA block king as an outside player.

An outside player was crowned the regular season block king, which is the first time in the history of the NBA, plus Andrei Kirilenko averaged 8 rebounds and 2.1 steals per game this season, so after the regular season, Andrei Kirilenko's call for being crowned the best defensive player is very high, and considering that Meng Xu has won the best defensive player three times, Andrei Kirilenko naturally became the favorite for the best defensive player, but in the final vote, Meng Xu still narrowly defeated Andrei Kirilenko, equalling Dikambe Mutombo's record of four Defensive Player of the Year.

After unexpectedly winning the best defensive player award, Meng Xu once again lost in the regular season MVP selection, following last season's best regular season record, but after losing to Steve Nash in the MVP selection, Meng Xu once again missed the regular season MVP this season while winning the best record, but this time Meng Xu lost to Tim Duncan.

Due to the increasing maturity of Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker, Tim Duncan's task in the Spurs is getting lighter and lighter, and the Spurs have even changed from a single-core team to a multi-core team this season, so compared with previous seasons, Tim Duncan's various statistics have declined to varying degrees, and both the number of appearances and the average playing time per game are career lows, but even so, Tim Duncan still defeated Meng Xu, Won the second regular season MVP of his career.

After winning the regular season MVP for three consecutive seasons, Meng Xu is now in the same predicament as Jordan back then, no matter how good your record is, no matter how explosive your personal data is, anyway, in the selection of the regular season MVP, you will be automatically ignored by most of the judges, two consecutive last seasons, Meng Xu had the best record in the regular season, and his personal data was significantly better than that of his competitors, he lost in the selection of the regular season MVP, maybe for these judges, If Meng Xu wants to win the regular season MVP again, the team's record must be better than the last time, but considering that the last time Meng Xu won the regular season MVP, the Pacers went against the sky with 74 wins and 8 losses, perhaps for a long time in the future, Meng Xu will not be able to get his hands on this most important award in the regular season.

Similar to the reason why Meng Xu missed the regular season MVP, the two teams with the best record this season, the head coaches of the Spurs and the Pacers, also missed the best head coach this season because they had won the best head coach, and in the end, the best head coach award was won by Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson, as a rookie head coach who has just coached for two seasons, Avery Johnson did a very good job in the Mavericks, following last season's 58 wins, Avery Johnson took the Mavericks one step further this season, winning the first regular season 60 of his coaching career.

In other individual awards, New Orleans Hornets' Chris Paul was named Rookie of the Season with an average of 16.1 points, 7.8 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game. In addition to that, Mike Miller of the Memphis Grizzlies was named the Sixth Man of the Season, and Buris Dior of the Phoenix Suns was named the fastest player to make the round.

If last season was a season for many young players to emerge, then this season is undoubtedly a season for them to steal power, in this season's All-NBA selection, many veteran stars have disappeared, Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady in the four major shooting guards, Kevin Garnett in the big four, Chris Webber, who was also a member of the big four, and Jason Kidd, who was once the league's No. 1 organization guard, were not selected for this season's best team.

Unlike the influx of young players to the All-Defensive Team, most of the All-Defensive Team selections this season are the old faces, with Ben Wallace, Meng Xu, Andrei Kirilenko, Kobe Bryant and Jason Kidd being named to the All-Defensive Team for a while. Marcus Camby, Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen, Tyshawn Prince, Chauncey Billups were named to the All-Defensive Second Team, as the three teams with the best defense and the fewest points conceded per game this season, the Pistons, Spurs and Pacers, each with two players named to the All-Defensive Team.

Like the previous selection of the best team, this season's selection of the best team still gives people a feeling that there are too few places, especially the loss of Kevin Garnett, which has caused a lot of controversy, although the Timberwolves' record this season is very unsatisfactory, and even missed the playoffs for the first time in 7 seasons, but Kevin Garnett averaged 21.8 points, 12.7 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game, and it was not even the best team three times lost.

So those media who support Kevin Garnett are crazy about Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony, who performed average in the first round of the playoffs, and the performance of Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony, who exploded in the regular season data, in the first round of the playoffs is really a little unreasonable, the Nuggets led by Carmelo Anthony were defeated by the Clippers, who were sixth in the West, and the Lakers led by Kobe Bryant were reversed by the Suns in a good situation of leading 3-1, So for a while, most of the media was aimed at Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony.