Chapter 270: Regular Season MVP
"The player who won the 2017-18 NBA regular season Most Valuable Player award is Wang Feng from the Los Angeles Lakers!"
Accompanied by the voice of the president of the alliance, the audience burst into warm applause.
Wang Feng got up with Kobe Bryant and Erwin around him. After Johnson and other celebrities shook hands, they came to the stage to accept the award with a smile.
After a unified vote by media reporters from the United States and Canada, Wang Feng received 64 first votes, 22 second votes, and 11 third votes, with a total of 849 points, beating Harden's 792 points and successfully winning the regular season MVP.
This score is already very close, and it can be seen that there are not a few reporters who vote for Harden, especially the first vote, Wang Feng only has 64 votes, and in his impression, Harden's first vote this season in another time and space has a full 86, 22 more than Wang Feng's first vote.
However, the percentage of votes is not critical, as long as it is higher than other competitors, it is a success.
Wang Feng, who walked on the podium, smiled brightly, accepted the regular season MVP trophy presented by the president of the league, and raised it to the camera with a smile.
"Wow, this trophy is a bit heavier than I thought it would be."
Soft laughter rang out from the audience.
"At the beginning of the regular season, a lot of people didn't understand, why should I go to the Lakers, and I had success with both the Warriors and the Cavaliers, so wouldn't it be good to stay and continue to pursue a championship? But I don't think so, because after three years in the league and three championships, I should have a new pursuit, such as this trophy. ”
"Any great player of all time, has the Most Valuable Player Award, LeBron, Stephen, so I feel like I should go for that goal, and definitely not just this time."
"Thank you to my coaches and team-mates, to my family and to the fans who have supported me, I love you and I hope I will have the opportunity to speak on this podium next time."
Wang Feng said this with absolute confidence.
Because just now, the moment he held the trophy in his hand, the sound of the system's prompt sounded in his ears.
"Ding ——, congratulations to player Wang Feng for winning the 2017-18 NBA Most Valuable Player Award, and receiving a reward: a purple optional badge."
That's right! The regular season MVP award is a purple self-selected badge! It is one level higher than the gold self-selected badge of the NBA's championship award, and it is also the highest level of the system badge, the Hall of Fame!
It's not surprising that winning the regular season MVP is definitely harder for players in the league than winning the championship.
As strong as Jordan, he has six championships but only five regular season MVPs.
And it's unfair to compare top superstars like Jordan and James.
Current Warriors head coach Steve Murphy. Kerr has won five championship rings as a player, including three in a three-pate post-Bulls championship and two championship rings since joining the Spurs.
Is it hard for him to win the championship? It's not difficult, because you just need to hug Jordan and Duncan's thighs and lie down to win the championship.
However, the regular season MVP is not a reward that can be obtained by hugging the thighs, and the annual regular season MVP like the NBA championship, only the strongest and top players in the league have the opportunity to get involved, so it is reasonable to be regarded as the highest honor award by the system.
With this optional purple badge and a large number of freely allocated points rewarded by the season, Wang Feng's strength will only be stronger next season, and in this virtuous circle, it is not impossible to win the regular season MVP for a second time.
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"Wang Feng won the 2017-18 regular season Most Valuable Player and became the first star in China to win this award!"
"Wang Feng: My time is coming, and this is definitely not just my only regular season MVP."
"Wang Feng and Bingbing dressed up to attend the NBA awards ceremony, which is suspected to be an official announcement!"
With Wang Feng winning the regular season MVP, his popularity at home and abroad continues to rise.
The first Chinese player in NBA history to win the regular season MVP is really incredible.
Of course, Wang Feng has already led the Chinese men's basketball team to win the silver medal in the Olympic Games before, in contrast, the influence of the NBA's regular season MVP in China is slightly worse after all, but the news of Wang Feng and Bingbing walking on the red carpet soared all the way and directly hit the headlines.
After working in the NBA for two years, Bingbing's popularity has become higher and higher, and the number of fans on a certain platform has gone straight to 8 million, which is even more popular than when it became popular in another time and space.
The first person in Asian basketball, the CP of the NBA's popular superstar and CCTV's first beautiful female reporter, is unprecedentedly popular in China, and even the couple combination of popular students in the entertainment industry is more popular.
Wang Fengren was still abroad, and he had already learned through the agent team of Yao's team that there were many high-rated couple variety shows that invited him and Bingbing to participate.
This made him a little speechless, is he very much like a variety show star?
But if you think about it carefully, basketball players are indeed relatively popular in China, such as Da Yao once participated in the filming of national-level variety shows such as Where to Go for Dad.
The attitude of Yao's team is to hope that Wang Feng can find time to participate in one or two well-known variety shows in China, and further expand his influence from the sports circle to the entertainment industry, which will help him improve his commercial value.
But at present, at least Wang Feng can't vacate the vacancy in the schedule, although the NBA season has ended, but he can't return to China immediately.
On July 1, the free market opened, and many superstars poured into the free market, and the major teams came out of the court one after another, trying to win some quality players in the free market.
The Lakers are no exception, and as the current star of the Lakers and the boss of the team, Wang Feng also has to assist the team in doing ideological work for the players.
But don't underestimate this, the attitude of a team's core players is often an important factor for free agents to consider whether to join, after all, if there is a conflict between them because of discord, the team will definitely stand on the side of the star and kick these players away.
And when the trading market officially opened on July 1, a number of news items were reported immediately.
Kevin. Durant chose to exercise the player option and continue to play for the Warriors next season to attack his second championship trophy, which surprised many people who were convinced that Durant would leave the Warriors and pursue his own championship.
At the same time, the Nuggets and the star of the house, Nikola. Jokic reached a five-year, $148 million contract extension for the center who will win two regular season MVPs with the Nuggets in the future.
The Rockets with point guard Chris. Paul agreed to a four-year, $160 million contract extension.
Among these large contract extensions, the most surprising is Paul George, who chose to sign a four-year, 137 million contract extension with the Thunder.