Chapter 171: The Youngest MVP!
If Lin Fei succeeds in winning the Most Valuable Player of the regular season award this season, then he will be born on December 25, 1988, at the age of 21 years and 5 months, he will become the youngest MVP in NBA history to break the record set by "Bone Crusher" Unseld.
The Clippers await the eventual winner of the Lakers and Suns, with the two teams tied 3-2 and the Lakers leading by one inning, with Game 6 set to begin in Phoenix.
Crowned Defensive Team of the Year Dwight. Howard led the Magic to sweep the Charlotte Bobcats, who broke into the playoffs for the first time, cleanly and became the second team after the Clippers to advance to the second round, while Lin Fei won the MVP's biggest opponent, last year's MVP winner James, the little emperor, led the team to kick out the young Chicago Bulls with a total score of 4:1, and the Boston Celtics led by the Big Three have also defeated the Miami Heat led by Wade 4:1 to advance to the second round.
The Los Angeles Clippers quickly resumed training, and on April 28, the NBA officially announced the winner of the 09-10 season Coach of the Year - Los Angeles Clippers coach Mike. Dunleavy, with the best record in the history of leading the Clippers to a 73-9 record in the regular season, Dunleavy successfully defended the Best Coach award and became the first person in history to defend the Best Coach title. On the evening of April 28, the NBA officially announced the winner of the 09-10 regular season most improved player - Rockets point guard Aaron Brooks was elected with an undisputed high vote. In fact, as early as yesterday, "Houston Chronicle reporter Jonathan . Fagan has already broken the news in advance that "Little Black Bean" will finally win this league award with an absolute advantage. But when the NBA officially announced the results today, Brooks' score still surprised people. As a result, more than half of the 123 journalists who voted voted 62 named Brooks as their first choice, and his 403 points were even more than the combined scores of Kevin Durant, George Hill and Mark Gasol, who were in second place. It can be seen that Xiaobu has an obvious advantage in the selection of this award.
Brooks, Yao Ming, and Maddy have become the most feared scoring trio of teams in the league, and the current Houston Rockets and Denver Nuggets are 3:2, and the sixth game will be played at Houston's home court, which is their best chance to advance for the Houstonians, although the Rockets are only sixth in the West, no one underestimates the strength of the Rockets.
The next time the Los Angeles Clippers got another piece of good news, Nell. Olshu won Manager of the Year in the 09-10 season.
The Clippers won 73 games in the regular season this season, four more games than in 2008-09, but set a new all-time record, and the Clippers' progress in the three years since the Los Angeles Lakers traded for Lin Fei is obvious to all, and the role of Olshu's trades and signed players is mediocre.
The 07-08 trade got Lin Fei, the crazy four-handed of the '08 draft, signed defensive titan Artest in the offseason, traded for Jr. Smith, and signed Steve. Novak, traded to get Andrey. Miller and Tyson. Chandler, signed a free agent at the end of the 08-09 season. Wallace and Lamar. Odom in exchange for the big shark O'Neal allowed the Clippers to completely enrich the weak interior line.
That general manager result earned Olshu 19 of the 30 general manager votes in the best manager vote, and Bucks general manager Hammond received six votes. Third-place Thunder general manager Sam Murphy. Presti got 4 votes.
On April 29, the Lakers defeated the Suns by 2 points on the road, and the Lakers became the opponent of the Clippers Western Conference semifinals again after last year, while the Houston Rockets also eliminated the Denver Nuggets at home, and they will wait for the winner between the Dallas Mavericks and the San Antonio Spurs, the Spurs and the Mavericks are currently tied 3:3, which is the second pair in the East and West to enter the tie-break, and the other is the Milwaukee Bucks, who have reached the playoffs for the first time in many years, and dragged the Atlanta Hawks into the tie-break.
On April 30, the NBA officially announced the winner of the 6th Man of the Year in the 09-10 season, and as previously revealed by the media, Hawks backup guard Jamal Crawford finally won the award. Wilson of the Clippers. Chandler, J.R. Smith and Lamar Odom unfortunately missed out on being the Sixth Man of the Year. Crawford, who joined the Hawks, played in none of his 79 games and started none of the team's games, still averaging 18 points, 2.5 rebounds and three assists per game, while shooting 38.2 percent from three-point range and 44.9 percent from the field. But judging by the results of a poll of 122 journalists and TV commentators, Crawford won narrowly, with 48 of them voting for Crawford as the first choice for the best sixth man and 45 as Lamar. Odom, who was the sixth man of the year last season, came to the Clippers this season with a further decline in playing time, but his efficiency continued to become the leader of the Clippers' second team, averaging 9.7 points, 8.6 rebounds and 5.7 assists per game, and he even got three triple-doubles and played only 22.7 minutes.
On the evening of the 30th, the league announced the rookie of the year selection, Sacramento Kings guard Terek. Evans defeated two arch-rivals, Stephen. Curry as well as Brandon. Jennings was elected.
As early as two days ago, the Sacramento media had already revealed in advance that Evans would lift the trophy of the rookie of the season. But perhaps for fear of uncertainty in the final stages, Evans has remained silent on the matter; And his club, the Kings, did not announce in advance that they would hold a press conference to celebrate the achievement, as other teams do. After all, the competition for the Rookie of the Year trophy is fierce, and young rookies such as Curry, Jennings, Collisson, and Thorton have all performed well this season.
In fact, when the NBA officially announced the voting results, Evans' final advantage was indeed very weak. Officially, the king's upstart received 67 first-place votes from 123 journalists and television commentators who participated in the vote, bringing the total score to 491 points. And in second place Stephen. Curry received 43 first-place votes and finished just 100 points less than Evans at 391. And Bucks point guard Brandon. Jennings received 12 first-place votes for a total of 204 points; And in addition to the above three, there is also a first-place vote, which was obtained by Hornets point guard Darren Collison.
With individual awards coming out one by one, the Most Valuable Player of the regular season has undoubtedly become the most concerned thing.
The Los Angeles Clippers, who had a five-day break, played their first game of the second round of the playoffs in Staples on the evening of May 1.
The Clippers have more time to practice tactics, and the Lakers only have a day off, Lin Fei has become the biggest trouble for the Lakers, defending Lin Fei can not score to prevent passing, and the double bag leaks other players, plus the Lakers players are a little weak in the offensive section under the influence of physical fitness, and finally the Los Angeles Clippers won with a score of 16 points, Lin Fei contributed another triple-double in this playoffs, 28 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds.
The Dallas Mavericks also kicked the pre-season fearless Spurs Quartet out of the playoffs in the tie-break on this night, and it turned out that Richard. Jefferson simply couldn't have effective chemistry with the Spurs.
The Atlanta Hawks in the East played a life-and-death game at home, and the Phillips Center sent the Bucks to fish with 15 points, and made it to the second round with great difficulty.
After the first game of the second round defeated the Lakers, a day later ushered in the second game between the two sides, the Lakers have already figured out clearly for the Clippers, the only change is Kobe's play, once Kobe draws up, even if the Clippers are strong, they may be defeated by Kobe Bryant alone, Phil Jackson carefully laid out tactics to deal with the Clippers, but when he saw the Clippers' lineup, he was stunned.
Tyson. Chandler didn't appear in the starting lineup, not only did Chandler not appear and even Lin Fei didn't appear in the starting lineup, Mike Dunleavy sent Shaquille. O'Neill, Rashid. Wallace, Ron. Artest, Wilson. Chandler, Andre. Miller's starting lineup, such a change of formation is something that no one expected.
So from the very beginning, the Lakers fell into passivity, Ron Artest and Wilson. Chandler's two defensive giants are crazy about Kobe, the only purpose is to make Kobe Bryant's fall into the iron, and O'Neal and Rasheed Wallace and Andre Miller have become the team's main point of attack, Phil Jackson watched the game for five minutes with a cold face, Kobe has hit the iron 5 times, just the opening shot, when Phil Jackson called a timeout, after coming back, Dunleavy changed the formation again, Lin Fei replaced Andre. Miller played as playmaker, Odom replaced Artest, Tyson. Chandler and Roy. Hibbert became the new insider, replacing four people at once, and such a big change can only be done with great courage, so that Bill Wharton and Hoffman both lamented Dunleavy's boldness.
And in fact, this change of formation has achieved good results, Lin Fei and Chandler took over the task of wrapping Kobe, and Lin Fei can hand the ball to Odom once he encounters crazy pressure on the offensive end, and Lin Fei uses the cover of his teammates and his own running position to complete the shooting, although Kobe's hand has recovered slightly, but it is a drop in the bucket for the Lakers, especially the inside line and the beginning of the complete change, from stable to more impactful and energetic, Bynum and Gasol are very uncomfortable, at the end of the first quarter of the game, The Clippers took a 14-point lead, and the cheers of the Clippers fans in the stadium showed how embarrassed the Lakers were tonight.
The playoff opponents who followed this game on TV were all afraid, knowing that the Lakers were strong but now they were being swept away by the Clippers.
In the second quarter, Kobe Bryant and Gasol's outstanding performance dragged down the Clippers but still failed to give the Lakers an advantage. Chandler, Rashid. Wallace, Wilson. Chandler, Jr. Smith and Lin Fei's lineup, once again hit the Lakers' defense by surprise, three-point rain is the sign of the third quarter, Lin Fei shot 4 three-pointers alone, and J.R. Smith also scored 3, the Clippers scored a terrifying 38 points in a single quarter, although Kobe Bryant scored 17 points in a single quarter, he still failed to narrow the gap between the points, and the Lakers were 20 points behind the Clippers at the end of the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the Lakers still wanted to turn over, but the Clippers were like a mountain that was difficult to climb in front of the Lakers, and the constant change of formation made the "Zen Master", who has always been known for his on-the-spot adaptability, powerless, once Jackson made a change of formation, the Clippers quickly made a change of formation, such a situation made the Lakers' defense completely chaotic and finally could only hope for zone defense and man marking, but this defensive effect was not good at all.
At the end of the game, the Clippers won the second game of the second round 128-112.
Leading the Lakers with a 2-0 overall lead, this situation is very good for the Clippers.
On the morning of May 4, ESPN basketball expert Mark Byrne revealed on his Twitter that Lin Fei had won the Most Valuable Player.
"I'd love to get it, but it's not out yet, I haven't heard anything, and if I say I believe it's not me who came out in the end, then I'll be embarrassed, so I'm going to put more energy into training for the next game, Bryant is a particularly difficult guy to play against and we can't be defensive and vigilant." Lin Fei said in an interview.
"I wouldn't be surprised, he deserves this award and only he deserves it, it's always bad to be behind, but we're not going to give up, there's still a long way to go in the series, it's just the beginning, we could beat them last year so we can do this year." Kobe Bryant responded to the situation of falling behind 0:2 in an interview.
"Lin, good news, absolutely good news." Bob on the other end of the phone. Pelinka's excited voice came from the other end of the phone.
"What's the good news? A big contract? Lin Fei was still in a half-asleep state.
"Man, you're such a stupid guy, what's the good news now, it's definitely the MVP! An insider told me you were an MVP, and if so, I saw a lot of dollars coming to us, and if nothing else, it would be announced tomorrow, and I believe it must be you. ”
Lin Fei was completely sleepy when he heard Pelinka's words, although it was only unconfirmed news, he still believed Pelinka's words, and there was a faint expectation in his heart.
At noon the next day, Lin Fei received a call from Chen Xiyan, who told Lin Fei that he was ready to receive the MVP trophy in the competition the day after tomorrow.
Soon, at three o'clock in the afternoon New York time, the NBA officially announced that Lin Fei was elected as the MVP of the regular season in the 09-10 season.
In the voting conducted by 123 journalists, media, and experts, Lin Fei got 76 first-place votes, and LeBron James got 45 first-place votes, and finally fell behind Lin Fei with 487 points and failed to defend the MVP.
Lin Fei also officially became the youngest regular season MVP winner, averaging 26.2 points (5th), 6.3 assists, 6.8 rebounds, 2.3 steals (3rd) and 1.5 blocks per game in 82 games in the season, 1.8 turnovers, shooting 60.8% (3rd), 3-point shooting rate of 56.6% (1st), and free throw shooting rate of 97.5% (2nd). Robinson.
With the honor of MVP, the Clippers ushered in the third game of the second round, which was a battle for the Lakers and the Clippers.
(To be continued)