Chapter 484: The controversy over the unanimous MVP
After the All-NBA was awarded, there was only one last award left to be awarded, which was the Most Valuable Player of the regular season award, but when the voting results came out, it caused a lot of unnecessary controversy. Because Curry, who has made history this year, actually won the regular season Most Valuable Player award by a unanimous vote, which is the first time in history that someone has been unanimously elected as the regular season MVP, and even the people who were as strong as Jordan and Russell who ruled the league have not won this kind of honor.
However, after this result came out, it also caused a large number of players or former players to be dissatisfied, such as in an interview with Sports Illustrated, Payton said: "It's still a problem of the times." It depends on who is voting, and what the whole environment is like. I really don't think he deserves to be the unanimous MVP. I can point out a couple of people: Michael Jordan, who won 72 wins...... Why can't he be elected MVP by unanimous vote? Larry Bird, Chamberlain, Bill Russell. I could name a whole bunch of names of players who should have been voted unanimously. ”
But that's what happened, and the unanimous vote fell on Curry's head. I want to say that the people above are also unanimously approved MVPs, but because of this era, everything is on Curry's side, everything is in his favor, so this happened to him. He became the first to pass unanimously. This isn't the first time Payton has belittled Curry in public, and he's said before that if Curry had played in a bygone era, he wouldn't have survived and would have been killed by himself.
While the older generations have their own reasons, most of them seem utterly illogical and unjustified in their rhetoric. For example, Payton's latest remarks, he opposed Curry becoming the first unanimous MVP in history, on the grounds that there were a lot of players in the past who were better than Curry and deserved to be the unanimous MVP. However, the MVP selection is a review every season, not every season to pull out all the NBA players who have appeared in history, how can the 2016 voters go to rehabilitate the former Jordan and Abdul-Jabbar for not getting unanimous votes? If Curry's performance doesn't get a unanimous vote this year, who should voters vote for this first vote? So Payton's conclusion is that Curry should pay for the failure of the superstars in the past to get a unanimous vote from voters. There is clearly no logic in this.
However, some experts questioned that this was Xiao Hua's trick to create stars, after all, how many referees contributed to this year's Warriors' 73 wins, everyone knows it, if it weren't for Xiao Hua's instructions, then where would those referees dare to favor the Warriors so obviously? And everyone also knows that Xiao Hua has been looking for an opportunity to surpass Stern since he took office, before, it was Ye Xuan, but this season Ye Xuan has been injured, so it has become the Warriors and Curry.
To be honest, in fact, it is certain that Curry can get the MVP this season, after all, their team record is the first, and Curry is also the league's scoring champion and steal king this season, whether it is at the team level or at the personal data level, he is a well-deserved MVP, but this unanimous election is a bit inappropriate. is as strong as Jordan, who failed to win the unanimous MVP in the 90s, and Russell, who is as strong as 8 consecutive championships, also did not have this opportunity, why was Curry able to unanimously vote MVP this season? Some have even elevated the matter to the height of conspiracy theories.
A few days ago, NBA legend Maddy joined Dudley and others on a talk show with Yahoo Sports' Victor Wernarowski. On the show, Maddie continued to insist that she was "unconvinced that Curry could be unanimously elected MVP". But at the same time, he also emphasized that he has no personal problems with Curry, and he does not hate Curry. Many people congratulated Curry on his unanimous election as MVP, while others questioned it. Among them is Maddy, who believes that Curry was able to be elected unanimously because there are too few contemporary superstars, and the league is too watery today. And this time, Maddie went on to reiterate her point. He first talked about the topic of the alliance becoming water. "NBA commissioner Adam Shaw said that this is probably the best basketball era that a lot of people have ever had," Wojnarowski said. ”
Maddy laughed and then said, "I'm just saying, if you go and look at the playoffs in the East, if you go and see the Cavaliers and Pacers sweep everything in the East, you think this league is watery." They don't face a challenge in the East, and other teams simply don't have a chance to beat the Cavaliers and Pacers. In the past, there was not so much difference in the level between the teams in the East, has the East tried such a time? Then, OJ said, "Well, Curry's unanimous MVP election is different from the league's denomination." ”
"I agree, it's a different topic indeed," Maddie said. It's not that I hate Curry, and I don't target Curry. I love watching Curry play. My dad and I were teammates in Toronto, and I played one-on-one heads-up with Curry. So, a lot of people think I hate Curry, don't think so. ”
Maddy continued: "I just can't understand Curry's unanimous MVP. Yes, he's had a phenomenal season. However, Jordan won the regular season MVP five times and LeBron won the regular season MVP four times. However, you tell me, neither of these guys ever got a unanimous vote. OJ then said, "Mind you, O'Neal has only won MVP once." Maddy said: "yes, Kobe Bryant has only won the MVP once." We're talking about O'Neal, probably the most powerful inside line in history. So, I just can't understand it, buddy. ”
In fact, before Curry, there have been players who were very close to the unanimous MVP, and before him, there were two players who missed the award by one vote, Shaq O'Neal in 2000, and LeBron James in 2013. In a previous interview, James carefully gave his opinion, 1. Curry deserves to win the MVP; The definition is debatable.
First, prove that there is no doubt about the MVP selection; The second is a little doubt about the unanimous MVP - from 1956 to 2015, for 60 years, there was no unanimous MVP, and it is the voters who have their own understanding of the definition of MVP. Why is it that in 2016, all voters are on the same page? An assumption: because of the real-name system.
In the 2012-13 season, James averaged 26.8 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 7.3 assists per game, shooting 56.5% from the field; He shot 40.6 percent from three-point range (40 percent for the first time in his career), 1.7 steals, 3.0 turnovers (the lowest in his career), and in February, he scored 29.7 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.8 assists, and shot 64.1 percent from the field, plus his Miami Heat's 27-game winning streak to a team-high 66 wins. At that time, the sensational effect was no less than that of Curry now, and the media and fans (most of them) actually expected him to be the MVP unanimously and refresh history.
But he ended up getting 120 of the 121 first-place votes, and Carmelo Anthony, got the remaining one of the votes. So, who risked the world's condemnation and didn't choose LeBron? LeBron also had a conspiracy theory at the time, saying: "This could be from the media in New York, we know the feud between the Heat and the Knicks, everyone knows it." Batade, one of ESPN's radio hosts and one of the 121 voters, suddenly saw it as a great opportunity to make a name for himself. He used the mechanism of anonymous voting to repeatedly suggest on the radio that his first vote went to Anthony, and immediately squeezed into the headlines of major sports media.
A day later, Boston Globe columnist Gary Washburne wrote an article titled "Why I Voted for Anthony as MVP." He explained several reasons in detail, one of which is that the Knicks can only compete for the lottery without Anthony, while the Heat can at least finish in the top six in the East without LeBron.
This incident has two consequences.
First, Batad completely became Zhanhei, and in 2015 he bet that if the Cavaliers won the championship, he would eat Xiang;
2. Mary Schmitt Boyer, president of the Professional Basketball Writers Association (PBA), put pressure on the vote to be made public starting in 2014. Boyle was also a reporter for the Cleveland Honest Newspaper, but of course, he didn't know at the time that James would return to the Cavaliers in 2014.
There is actually too much uncertainty in voting on the MVP. In the 1995-96 season, Jordan's first full season after his first comeback, the Bulls won a historic 72 wins, averaging 30.4 points, 6.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists, and 2.2 steals per game, and were the scoring champion that season, with a staggering 20.4 in winning contribution (S) - Curry was 17.9 this season and 15.7 last season - but he only got 109 out of 113 MVP first votes, 2 to "Penny" Hardaway and 1 to "Big Dream" Olajuwon, 1 card to Carl Malone.
Why give it to Malone? That season, both Malone's stats and his Jazz team's record were down from the previous season. In the end, Malone only scored 85 points - a total of 1130 points. Journalist Kevin Draper once slammed the NBA's voting mechanism, "Why would you allow stakeholders (members of the team's local media) to participate in voting of this nature?" ”
For example, Walter Reeser, a Knicks celebrity, he works for MSG, and his boss is James Dolan, the owner of the Knicks; Another example is John Denton, who is a reporter for the Magic's official website, and they both have voting power. However, compared to the anonymous period of private voting, public ballots are also not so pure - some journalists may not dare to make their own choices under the pressure of public opinion, and "homogeneous" voting has become a new problem. Especially in the Internet era, Twitter and email can allow fans to directly face reporters and columnists, and not everyone can calmly face the "greetings" of black and honey.
Curry's greatness is undeniable, but being elected unanimously is not what Curry's greatness entails. As LeBron said, what exactly is the definition of MVP? We can then ask: Do the 131 people who voted have the same definition of MVP? Perhaps, real-name voting is the real answer for these 131 people.
Of course, Ye Xuan was inevitably involved in this turmoil, because there was a large number of fans who did not support Curry's unanimous election and all took Ye Xuan as a comparison object to prove how much water Curry's regular season MVP has this season, first of all, if Ye Xuan plays enough, then he will be able to take away the title of scoring champion and steal king from Curry, and Ye Xuan's efficiency value this season is actually very high, because Ye Xuan's rebounding skills have been thoroughly developed this season, So this season, Ye Xuan's average data per game is also very good, reaching 34.2 points, 6.3 rebounds and 9.9 assists, and of course, 3.2 steals.
However, Ye Xuan himself is not very interested in this statement, after all, he has been off for half a season, if he can still come out to participate in the competition for this kind of award, then simply don't do this in the future statistics, let a player brush 20 rebounds a game, and then never play again, and then average 20 rebounds per game in the season, and directly sit firmly in the rebounding king.
After such a small episode, Ye Xuan finally started his holiday life, originally at the beginning, Ye Xuan was going to chat with Howard, who had just been eliminated by the Warriors, to enlighten him, but he didn't expect Howard himself to be as bored as Ye Xuan imagined, but started his vacation the day after being eliminated, and now he doesn't know which island to run to blow the sea breeze and take his sister.
In fact, Ye Xuan's time to be hilarious is not too much, because this year there is the Olympic Games, a quadrennial large-scale sports event, Ye Xuan has not played a game for the Chinese team after joining the Chinese men's basketball national team, in the summer of 14, the Chinese team did not enter the main game of the Basketball World Cup, in the summer of 15, there was originally an Asian Championship to play a dozen, but because Ye Xuan was injured, so he was unable to make the trip, this year anyway, Ye Xuan is also going to participate in this Olympic Games, First, he can play for his country, and secondly, in this kind of international competition, he is the core of the team, so is it not easy and pleasant to brush up the data? For Ye Xuan, brushing data is equivalent to brushing rewards, which is equivalent to brushing his own survival time, which is brushing his life! This kind of good thing Ye Xuan said that he didn't want to miss anything.
So after finishing the advertising shooting work in the United States, Ye Xuan directly submitted an application to the men's basketball team through the agent team, in fact, the men's basketball team has already made a calculation, just wait for Ye Xuan to take the initiative to return to the team, this year's Olympic Games, the Chinese team's goal is very high, after all, the United Arab Emirates is still playing, and Zhou Qi, these rising stars, have gradually grown up, it is a good time to train them, if Ye Xuan comes back, the Chinese team's external problems can also be solved, Then the top eight will no longer be an insurmountable obstacle.