While Riley was the Heat players like crazy, the Knicks took a day off.

Although he failed to complete the great goal of competing for the top spot, in the first season of coaching, the team still made the playoffs after a big change, and Li Wei still felt very good.

The Knicks are already on the right track, and in another season or two, with young players such as Garnett growing further, the Knicks will become the Eastern powerhouse again!

At the end of the regular season, the Rookie of the Year for April was also selected, and it was still Tim Duncan of the Spurs.

The team with the best record this month is the Lakers, who are 9-1 and the Knicks are second with an 8-1 record because of the final game.

Li Wei was nominated for Coach of the Month again, but still did not win. The league presented the award to Lakers head coach Del Harris!

The Player of the Month award went to O'Neal, the Lakers' big shark.

O'Neal is averaging 33.8 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game this month, compared to Jordan's 32.3 points and Malone's 32.2. In addition, the Lakers have the best record, and it is not okay not to give it to him.

The Lakers finished with a 61-21 record, tying the SuperSonics and just one win away from the Jazz, who are in first place in the West.

The Jazz belong to the Midwest region and rank first in the West, while the Lakers and SuperSonics belong to the Pacific region, because the overall record is the same, so they have to compare each other's records.

The two teams have met four times this season, and the SuperSonics are 3-1, so they are ahead of the Lakers and become the champion of the Pacific Division, second in the West.

Although the Spurs have gathered the twin towers this season, and Duncan, who has completed four years of college, is not at all like a rookie, he is still growing and not as unfortunate as he was in his heyday.

In addition, this season, the Spurs' perimeter players have suffered a large number of injuries, a lack of major generals, and Popovich even had to line up a three-center lineup in some games - Duncan, who played center in college, played small forward, David Robinson, one of the four centers, went to play big forward, and backup center Will Perdo took the center position.

What, the three centers can't open up space?

It doesn't matter, in this era, joint defense is not allowed, and if you don't pinch the ball carrier, you have to defend one. Even if the center doesn't have the ability to shoot three, your defender has to go out and have a good time, otherwise you will be blown off the illegal defense!

Popovich's three-tower strategy is still quite powerful, so the Spurs have a 56-26 record this season, which is the same as the reinforced Suns. However, the Suns beat the Spurs three times in the regular season, so they are ahead of the Spurs!

Jazz, SuperSonics, Lakers, Suns, Spurs, this is the top five in the Western Conference and the Portland Trail Blazers are sixth.

After Ewing went to the Timberwolves, he did not have a major injury like in his previous life, but he also experienced minor injuries, so the Minnesota Timberwolves' record ranked seventh, and the eighth place was the Rockets, who were constantly injured and had a serious decline in big dreams.

The six teams in the West are in a mess, and the Rockets, the eighth place, are completely guaranteed, with the Kings below it only 27 wins, and the Mavericks, who are 10th in the West, have only 20 wins.

The top eight in the East are the Bulls, Heat, Pacers, Hornets, Hawks, Nets, Knicks, Cavaliers. The devastated Washington Wizards ended up with a 42-40 record, but they were still locked out of the playoffs!

The Knicks won just one more game than the Wizards and finished seventh, so lucky!

In this era, the NBA did not have an awards party, and the annual awards were given out after the regular season and during the playoffs, and teams usually held an award ceremony before the game began.

The more heavyweight the award, the later it will be issued, and generally when the MVP award is issued, the playoffs are in the second round, so the MVP who is out of the first round and fails to receive the award before the game will be very embarrassing.

In the 06-07 season, Nowitzki led the Mavericks to lead the league, but was blacked out as a result of the eight, and was another first-round MVP after Moses Malone in the 80s. Nuo Tianwang, who received the award while fishing, has also become the target of all media criticism.

In the 16-17 season, another first-round MVP appeared, but this time the league held a grand awards party, and Westbrook became the protagonist of the party, avoiding Nowitzki's embarrassment.

Although this year's awards have not been awarded, they are slowly revealing the wind.

The Rookie Second Team of the Year is: Maurice Taylor, Cedric Henderson, Tim Thomas, Bobby Jackson, Derrick Anderson.

The Rookie of the Year teams are: Tim Duncan, Keith Van Horn, Zajunas Ilgoskas, Blevin Knight, Ron Mercer.

Chauncy Billups, a prospective star who had high hopes from Boston, shot just 37.4 percent from the field throughout the season, and Rick Pitino, a generation of famous coaches, could only grab the lottery pick, a performance that certainly could not be selected for the rookie lineup.

Tracy McGrady, a talented high school student, did not receive the team's focused development like Billups, and his performance was mediocre, and he also failed to make the rookie lineup.

Another jewel left on the rookie roster is Stephen Jackson. Although Li Wei is cultivating him, there are too many people that the Knicks need to cultivate, and the team is impacting the playoffs in the later stage, so his playing time is about the same as Maddy, and his performance is not as good as Maddy, and it is not surprising that he was not selected.

Rookie of the Year, without a doubt, Tim Duncan!

Although Big Z and Van Horne performed well, it was impossible for them to take this award from Duncan, and even in the MVP vote, Duncan was ranked fifth!

As for the undrafted Li Wei, who has always claimed to be good with Duncan for a while, he only played 33 games this season, averaging 2 minutes per game, scoring 0.15 points, 0.09 rebounds, 0.30 assists, 0.03 blocks and 0.06 steals.

Thanks to Kobe, all of his five statistics are not zero, but such miserable data is enough to make the judges of every award stay away from him.

The only thing Li Wei can brag about is his own shooting rate, as an NBA player, the 2-point shooting rate in his rookie season is 100%, and the 3-point shooting rate is also 100%, just ask if you are afraid!

The Defensive Team of the Season was also revealed shortly after. Knicks power forward Charles Oakley was named to the second defensive team.

This season, Oakley was suspended for the first 20 games, and the Knicks lost all 20 games, and after his return, the team played an amazing 43-19 record and entered the playoffs strongly!

So, Oakley's role is too important, and his stats are inconspicuous and can only be put in the defensive lineup. If it weren't for the lack of games, maybe he would have been able to make it to the defense.

The best team is only divided into defenders, forwards, and centers, and does not distinguish between large and small forwards, nor does it distinguish between two defenders.

The forward named to the second team of the defensive team alongside Oakley is the Spurs' rookie of the year, Tim Duncan, and the center is Duncan's teammate David Robinson. The two guards are Hawks point guard Murkey Blaylock and Lakers point guard Eddie Jones.

As for the season's defensive first team, it is still last year's five: Gary Payton, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Karl Malone, and DiCambe Mutombo.

Defensive Player of the Season, the same one from last season: Dicambe Mutombo!