Antetokounmpo and Xu Yong were more apprehensive when they shook hands, and that feeling had to be an analogy, probably the scene when James occupied the C position in the 75 field and was kicked down, and then saw Jordan enter the court.

He thought of N possibilities, but he never imagined that Xu Yong would say such a thing to him.

The future is his!

Yes, the future is his, Xu Yong is 30 years old this year, and no matter how great a legend is, it should start to decline after 30 years old.

Of course, more importantly, Leonard was standing next to him, but Xu Yong said such things to him, which really honored him.

"Thank you, I'll do my best!" Antetokounmpo said excitedly.

Xu Yong couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

If it weren't for knowing the true meaning of this sentence, this scene of the famous rookie's expectations for the future supergiant would be very warm.

It's that Leonard's expression is a little weird, after all, strictly speaking, he is the core of this Raptors team.

After the handshake, the dressing room was returned to the locker room to celebrate, and then the overall championship award ceremony was held.

In the process, Jokic seemed very excited, knowing that Xu Yong hung the Olympic gold medal in front of his locker cabinet before the season.

But the most excited person is neither the Mavericks coaching staff nor the Mavericks players, but Mavericks owner Ballmer.

In that manual, it was stipulated that a team could have a maximum of 35 people in the park, and excluding the players and coaching staff, not many people could come, let alone the owner.

After all, NBA teams are just one of the industries for most owners, and even if they weren't, it would be too much torture for them to stay on the campus for three months as a capitalist, and Ballmer was one of only a few.

You have to ask what the original motivation is, and that is the love of basketball, which is a big toy, but you have to go deeper, as the first in the league and the Mavericks with Xu Yong, they are the most likely team to win the championship.

Now that he's getting what he wants, just the second year after he bought an NBA team, no one is happier than him.

He hugged everyone on the Mavericks team excitedly, and when he hugged Xu Yong, he kept patting Xu Yong's back, and his mouth kept nagging.

Xu Yong enjoys this feeling, because Ballmer, a boss who truly loves basketball, is more accessible than a businessman like Rauhensdorf.

And compared with Cuban, the former owner of the Mavericks, Ballmer also has one good point, that is, although he loves it, he will delegate power to management and will not interfere.

Let people who are good at do what they are good at, this is the simplest truth, but it is also the rarest reality.

The scene first carried out the award of the overall champion, and then the award of FMVP.

It was at this time that not only the players on both sides, but even most of the fans watching the live broadcast were excited.

Because the person who presented the award was Kobe Bryant!

Although there have been many rumors before, the league has not made a public statement, so this is a surprise that most fans are looking forward to.

Kobe Bryant was also excited, in order to be able to participate in this championship award ceremony, he entered the park half a month ago and began to quarantine.

But the first moment he came in and saw Seo Yong, it seemed that everything was worth it.

They had a pact, and now it's time for them to honor each other.

Tatum is also quite sophisticated, and it is usually the president who announces the results at such times, but he handed the envelope to Kobe.

Bryant was a little flattered, but finally took it over at Tatum's suggestion.

After opening it, Kobe Bryant pretended to be surprised before seriously announcing the results.

"The winner of the 2020 Finals Bill Russell Trophy is...... Xu Yong. ”

In fact, there is no suspense, but Kobe Bryant still did enough foreplay.

After the announcement, he also picked up the trophy belonging to FMVP and handed it to Xu Yong, and then hugged him with a smile.

Averaging 30.5 points, 7 pulls, 5.5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block per game, Xu Yong won his 6th FMVP trophy.

"Don't be so nervous, there will be opportunities in the future." Xu Yong said with a smile to Kobe Bryant when he received the trophy.

Kobe laughed, and then hugged Xu Yong vigorously.

After receiving the FMVP trophy, Xu Yong also delivered a special acceptance speech.

"This past season has been a particularly difficult one for us, of course, not just us, for the league, for all the fans, we won this trophy because it was the result of all of us working together, it proved that the difficulties caused by the pandemic can be overcome, I think it will also inspire everyone to overcome the pandemic, and I would like to conclude with a quote from a science fiction book in our country: courage is a hymn to humanity."

Xu Yong's speech drew the final end to the uneven season of 2019~2020.

Although it was tortuous, the final result was acceptable.

However, because of the epidemic, the upcoming 2020~2021 season is also destined to be extraordinary.

Because the finals are already in October, and there are a series of things in between, such as the offseason, the draft, the free agent market, and the preseason, which means that the number of games in the new season will be compressed, and the season opening time will be postponed.

Even before the league proposed closed games in June this year, the new season was predicted to start in March 2021, and even then, the latest news is that it is predicted to be late January next year.

As a result, the maximum number of games in the new season will be just over 50.

And according to the current situation, next season will basically still be played in a park mode.

All this indicates that the new season may be more tortuous than this one.

And the Mavericks are also missing a little bit of this year's championship, because of the pandemic, they will become the first championship team in history not to win the championship celebration parade.

But as Xu Yong said, this is part of humanity's victory over the epidemic.

A short offseason is precious.

However, the day after the season ended, Wright suggested to Xu Yong that he should start another closed intensive training session in the offseason.

The energy of young people is exuberant, and this is the sweetness after winning a championship.

However, Xu Yong did not agree this time.

He himself is immune to injuries, but others are not.

As a reborn, he knew that if nothing else, the new season would start in December, and for the Mavericks, there was still season training camp and preseason games, leaving them with a maximum of one month off.

Sustained high intensity can easily lead to injury.

Or to put it another way, the most important thing for the Mavericks this summer is rest.

Xu Yong also took advantage of this time to accompany their four children.

Xu Hao will be with Xu Yong every summer, contact basketball, and then hone his skills, although he is still young, but perhaps due to genetic factors, his interest in basketball is naturally strong.

If Xu Yong can play in the NBA until he is forty-five years old, then maybe they may really have a father and son on the same stage.

Putting down everything to accompany his family is also the most comfortable time for Xu Yong.

When the time came to November, the good news began to come.

On the big side, after more than a year of fighting, the pandemic is still ongoing, but the virulence is already waning, which offers a glimmer of possibility for the reopening of the course in the future.

On the small side, labor and management have reached a consensus that the new season will officially start on December 23.

For fans, especially in North America, it's a joy to see the start of the new season before Christmas.

This is also a good thing for the league, because this point in time is about the same as the last shutdown, which was also the start of the 2011 season, and the 72 games in a single season are much better than expected.

On November 18, the curtain of the 2020 NBA Draft kicked off, and due to the epidemic, this year's draft was held online, and ESPN broadcast the whole process.

This year's draft is a bit special, but this year is also a session that has been paid great attention to by the outside world, and the main reason is that the champion loves Dewards.

This guy who was presented with a hand-signed jersey by Xu Yong has shown amazing talent since high school, and he has performed even more vigorously after entering college, and he has locked in this year's champion show before the epidemic arrived.

And in addition to Edwards, there is also James Wiseman, who is very talented in the dynamics of the sky, and LaMelo Ball, the most talented of the three balls.

Even from the perspective of Xu Yongkai's eyes, there are a number of talented rookies such as Haliburton, Vassell, Maxey, and Bane this year, and the overall strength is still very strong.

Xu Yong also paid attention to this draft, and what surprised Xu Yong in the end was not the ownership of the top three picks, but when the selection show came to the Mavericks, the Mavericks chose an expected choice, and they chose Desmond Bane with the 30th pick.

Xu Yong still knows a little about Bain, because this person has a well-known nickname: Meat Jarry.

As the name suggests, his three-point is the guy he eats with, but he's very strong and tough defensively.

Wright doesn't have a three-point skill set, and Bane can make up for it at this position.

The reason why he fell to this pick is because of his poor physical condition, as a scoring guard, he is short, and his bare feet are only 1.93 meters, which is comparable to Oladipo.

And he doesn't have Oladipo's reach, his short hands, coupled with his strong body and lack of agility and speed, all affect his position.

But Xu Yong knew that Bain had organizational potential, which was overlooked by the scouts.

So in the Mavericks' organizational structure, it is not impossible, or even better, for Bane to replace Wright as the starting point guard in the future.

After all, now Wright and DeRozan have no outside three-pointers, and the offensive space is still relatively crowded during positional battles, and many times Malone is forced to use Rose to play the starting No. 1 position, and even after Rose is injured, he can only use rookie Pu'er.

In general, the Mavericks have just won the championship, and the lineup tends to be stable, and the core rotation will not take the initiative to change.

And their current team composition is very similar to the Bulls who completed the dynasty before, with Xu Yong at the core, Jokic at the core, DeRozan at the third, and some good role players.

For them, DeRozan's rediscovery in last season's playoffs is the team's biggest addition.

DeRozan also jumped out of his contract this summer and signed a four-year, $110 million contract extension with the Mavericks.

Because of the salary cap increase, this is a contract extension that is much lower than the maximum salary.

This allows the Mavericks to retain their immediate combat power and maintain the flexibility of space for future reinforcements, which is considered an acceptable contract for both parties.

And the Mavericks' opponents for the new season, the Lakers have been looking for a big third in the summer.

Finally, after a series of efforts, they managed to sign Fred Van Vleet with a 4-year, 90 million contract.

Not to mention VanVleet's embarrassment of the name of the giant, this is already the biggest player the Lakers can sign.

However, more important than Van Vleet, they kept Anthony Davis with a five-year cap salary.

In the new season, the Lakers' triumvirate of VanVleet, James, and Davis also officially set sail.

Although VanVleet is almost star, and although James will be 36 years old next season, as long as the Lakers' thighs are still there, everything is not a problem.

The Warriors and Thunder lineups have changed little, with the Clippers signing Gallinari back to bolster their perimeter projection.

Overall, the free agency market has not been much of a big wave because the transition between seasons and events has been too short, and there are almost no big fish that have expired this year.

This also makes it widely believed that the Mavericks have a high probability of defending their title in the new season.

But under such a mainstream voice, another voice began to emerge.

There are some who believe that the Mavericks' park championship is not very valuable and unconvincing.

Especially after the release of Patil's "Dallas Dynasty: The Beginnings" championship documentary, which caused a lot of reaction, the idea that the Mavericks won the championship because they trained three months longer than everyone else became popular.

In the era before Seo's rebirth, there was a popular argument that the Lakers' campus championship was questioned because it was James and not Curry who won the championship.

Interestingly, the person who made this argument was none other than James' agent, Rich Paul.

History cannot be assumed, and this argument has eventually become an argument for some of the Jammys to fight back.

But now it turns out that no matter how the strength of the opponent changes, no matter who wins the championship, it is inevitable that the park champion will be questioned.

Because there is no home and away game, these objective factors of closed matches are always unavoidable.

In other words, the Mavericks won the championship, but there was only one way for them to earn full recognition from the outside world: to do it again in the new season.

(End of chapter)