After the rookie award was presented, it was time for the defense-related honors.

Lin Yu came to the spirit, this year's Wizards ranked first in the league in defensive efficiency, first in the league in average opponent points per game, first in the league in rebounds per game, and first in the league in steals per game.

It is worth mentioning that rebounds are also officially regarded as defensive statistics.

The first to come out was a defensive formation, Big Ben, Big Bus, Malone, Jordan, Kobe, Payton.

Everyone gasped, and three of the Wizards were selected to defend for a while? This is an exaggeration.

But if you think about it carefully, it's not so exaggerated, because in 96, the Bulls also had three players selected for the defensive lineup, namely Jordan, Pippen and Rodman.

The Wizards' number of wins this year is one more than the 72 wins of the Bulls in '96, and all kinds of defensive low-level statistics and advanced statistics are better than the Bulls that year, and it is completely reasonable to have three selections.

Moreover, this year's defensive team is relatively special, with six people selected, and it may be that Kobe Bryant and Payton received the same number of votes.

This is not uncommon in history, with six players in the defensive team in '81, '88 and '99 at the same time.

Then there was the defensive second line, with Mutombo, Duncan, Webb, Eddie Jones and the Eagles leading Blaylock.

After the two defensive lineups were announced, the Wizards cheered, and four players were selected to the defensive lineup, which can also be ranked in NBA history.

Big Ben was dumbfounded, he never dreamed that he would be selected for the defensive team.

Although his defensive performance is indeed good enough, and his statistics are also outstanding in all aspects, Mutombo, who is currently recognized as the league's No. 1 blue-collar center, has beaten the African mountains and won a defensive break?

What made him even more jaw-dropping was the next DPOY awards.

"I announce that the winner of the 1997-1998 Regular Season Defensive Player of the Year award is Ben Wallace of the Washington Wizards!"

After Stern finished reading, the Wizards' locker room was even more boiling.

This is an extremely great honor, DPOY is the regular season MVP in the minds of blue-collar players, and this award is extremely golden.

Of all the honors in the regular season, MVP is naturally the highest, followed by DPOY, then the All-NBA, and then the defensive team.

"Ben, your DPOY is too timely, just in time for you to jump out of the contract next season, and the boss can't prepare a contract for you for seventy or eighty million dollars?"

Webb laughed, and he was genuinely happy for Big Ben.

Big Ben hurriedly shook his head, "No, I don't want so much money, give me a middle-class contract, and I'll be satisfied." ”

"As long as we can stay with the Wizards."

Lin Yu chuckled in his heart, last offseason he asked Mashburn and the Speeder to get a big contract, and this season I'm afraid the same scene will happen to the big itself.

"Ben, congratulations, you deserve this DPOY."

"We're the best defensive, so we're the best defensive, so I want to ask why Blayrock is in the second team, and I can't?" Maddie asked distressedly.

His defensive efficiency and defensive victory contribution are actually higher than Blaylock's.

Bryant quipped, "Tracy, is there a possibility, you're a forward?" ”

"Malone, Bus, Webb, and Duncan, who do you think your defense is better than you?"

Maddie suddenly smiled wryly, "Damn, I'll also switch to guard next season, the competition for strikers is too fierce." ”

"Very good, then next season I and Michael will start as an All-Star, and you will come to play me as a substitute." Kobe teased again.

Kobe Bryant didn't know that Jordan was going to retire after playing this season.

When Maddie heard this, he hesitated, and it seemed that the striker was more suitable for him.

The next Sixth Man of the Year was taken by Peja.

The best sixth man does not mean that he must play all the games as a substitute, as long as he has more substitute games than the number of starts, he is eligible for the best sixth man.

Peja's bench game is a minor starter, and his individual data has reached 16.5 points, coupled with the team's record is really luxurious, he deserves this award.

Then there's the Most Improved Player of the Year award, which is even more in the Wizards' pocket, because both Ao and Nash have improved this season amazingly.

In the end, the award was won by Nash, who averaged 17 points and 11.5 assists per game in his starting games this season, and also shot a very high percentage from the same time as last season with the Suns.

The Wizards' players don't average a lot of points per game, and that's because there are so many shots on the team.

"It's here, it's finally the best team, who will be the MVP this year?"

Lin Yu motioned for everyone to be quiet, and listened intently to Stern on the TV announcing the best lineup candidates.

The best lineup for a while, Ao Fat, Duncan, Bus, Jordan, Kobe.

Bryant yelled with excitement that he became the youngest player in NBA history to become the youngest player to play a double-team player, a record that no one will be able to break in the future.

So far, Kobe Bryant has become the biggest winner.

Lin Yu couldn't cry or laugh, there is nothing wrong with Kobe Bryant for a while, after all, the Wizards' record is so gorgeous, and then Kobe's role on the court is indeed big enough, and his personal data is not much worse than that of the most powerful contender, Payton.

It's just that Kobe Bryant is too young, and he was directly selected for the double team, which made Lin Yu a little unacceptable for a while.

At the same time, the bus has also become a double team, but in Lin Yu's opinion, the double team of the bus is Sterne's ghost, especially the best defensive team, in fact, Duncan seems to be more qualified to be selected for the defensive team than the bus.

Wait for the next two formations, Big Ben, Webb, Malone, Payton plus flying cars.

Lin Yu laughed, he didn't expect the flying car to be on the edges, and he got a second formation.

In fact, under normal circumstances, the Flying Car is the best second team this season, and he and Tim Hardaway take the second team of guards, and the first team of guards is Jordan and Payton.

Now that Kobe Bryant is out of the box, Tim Hardaway has been squeezed out of the second lineup.

The next three teams, Mutombo, Grant Hill, Pippen, Reggie Miller plus Maddy.

Maddie also yelled excitedly, he never expected that he would be selected for the third team after missing so many games.

But when he thought that Pippen hadn't missed a lot of games, he had missed more games than himself, and Maddie grinned, and this three-up also made him the youngest member of the All-NBA All-NBA team.

There are many benefits for high school students to enter the league, at least they can break many age-related historical records.

"No, why do you count you as a defender again?" Lin Yu asked curiously.

When he heard that Pippen and Hill had won three shots, he thought Maddie was out of play, but he didn't expect to be placed in the guard position.

"Whatever, isn't Miller also a Swingman? He wasn't put on guard yet. ”

"Anyway, this three formations are mine!" Maddie couldn't help but say.

The All-NBA team has three sets of lineups, and the Wizards have five players selected, which is another remarkable achievement in NBA history, and it can even be said that it is almost impossible for any team to surpass.

Not to mention five before that, there had never been even three selected at the same time.

The main reason for this situation is that the NBA has only adopted three teams since 89, and the previous best team was only two teams, with a total of ten people, and it is much more difficult for multiple people to be selected for a team.

After 89, it almost entered the era of Bulls domination, and in 93, Jordan, Pippen and Rodman were all selected to the best team, but unfortunately Rodman was not a Bulls player at that time.

By the time Rodman arrived with the Bulls, he had never been named to the All-Star team, which was embarrassing.

So in the history of the NBA, there has never been a team with three people selected to the All-Star team at the same time, and the Wizards are simply off the charts this time, directly selecting five.

Lin Yu said that this record will not be broken in the future, because Lin Yu remembers that at most three teams were selected, namely Curry, Tang Shen and Green of the Warriors, James, Wade and Bosh of the Heat, Nash, Xiaosi and Marion of the Suns, and Paul, Griffin and Jordan Jr. of the Clippers.

There are only these four teams, and the embarrassing thing is that these four teams have not been able to win the championship that year.

It's normal for the three best teams not to win the championship, but if the Wizards' five best team players can't win the championship, it is probably a bit funny, and Lin Yu will become the laughing stock of the whole league.

The player is so strong, he didn't win the championship, no matter how you look at it, it's also the coach's pot.

After the All-NBA was announced, everyone held their breath and quietly waited for the regular season MVP honor to be released.

Everyone is sure that this MVP will definitely come from their wizards, but they just don't know who will take it.

It seems that Daba and Kobe Bryant are the two most likely, after all, they are both the best players, which almost means that they are the strongest players in their respective positions.

It is said that it almost represents, because the forward position is not divided into power forward and small forward, and the same is true for guards, so if not the strongest, at least it is second in the league.

"I declare the 1997-1998 regular season MVP ......"

"Chris Webb of the Washington Wizards!"

Stern smiled and called out Webb's name.

Lin Yu and the Wizards looked puzzled at first, and then cheered collectively, Webber is definitely the most suitable player to win this award, there is no one.

As the boss of the team, Webber has been silently paying, and as long as his teammates are in need, Webber can always be seen stepping up.

Not only on the court, but also off the court, Webb also took great care of Kobe and others.

Even in order to communicate better with the bus, Weber took the initiative to find a Chinese teacher to learn some Chinese.

With such a boss, the generals can only be convinced.

"Huh? No, why me? ”

"I'm not even for a while, how is that possible? Could it be a mistake? ”

Webber looked embarrassed, he didn't make the All-NBA team for a while, which means that he wasn't at least one of the two best forwards in the league, but he was named the Most Valuable Player of the Season?

It doesn't make sense.

Lin Yu laughed, hugged Webb and said, "What's so strange about this, Dave Cowens knows, right?" ”

Webb nodded, "Yes, Hornets boss." ”

"He played for the Celtics in the '70s and didn't make the first team, but he still won the regular season MVP."

"At that time, the Celtics had a great record, but no matter how good it was, our Wizards, Cowens could take it, why can't you take it?"

When Webb heard that there had been a similar precedent before, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and a look of relief appeared on his face.

This MVP means too much to him, he is the top pick, and after being drafted by the Orlando Magic, he was immediately traded to the Warriors, and the Warriors paid for the year's Hardaway plus three first-round picks.

This shows how high Weber's expectations were at that time.

However, the Warriors made a comeback by signing Webb to a fifteen-year contract, yes, fifteen years......

Fifteen years is not a commotion operation, but the real commotion is that the contract offered by the Warriors to Webb stipulates that Webber has the right to jump out of the contract in the first year, which is simply treating Webber as his own father.

Then an embarrassing thing happened, Webber didn't want to play with the Warriors and was ready to jump out of the contract, which made the Warriors miserable, and they could only trade him to the Bullets according to Webb's request, in exchange for some chips that didn't match Webb's value at all.

You must know that in order to get Webb, the Warriors paid pennies plus three first-round picks!

Weber's operation is indeed not very kind, in order to be able to play brother basketball with Uncle Huo, he made the Warriors miserable.

After arriving in Washington, the two of them didn't play anything and became a laughing stock, especially when they were insulted by the fans every time they went to play on the Warriors' home court.

Now that he has finally made an achievement, he will be able to straighten his back in the future.

In fact, since the season before the reimbursement, Webber has matured a lot, and every time he thinks of the Warriors, he feels guilty.

Especially after Second Uncle Huo left the Wizards, Webber felt more and more that he couldn't stand the Warriors.

……

After the regular season awards, the fourth game of the Eastern Conference semifinals will start, and after winning this game, Lin Yu will lead the Wizards to the Eastern Conference finals for the second time.

"It's definitely not going to be so clean on the Heat side tonight, remember, everything is about self-preservation, and try to reduce breakout layups and dunks as much as possible."

"We still have the Eastern Conference Finals and the Finals to play, don't be impulsive."

"After tonight, no matter what they do, I'll settle accounts with them one by one!"

Lin Yu summoned the Wizards before the game and instructed that he didn't think Riley could swallow his anger and act as if nothing happened, so tonight would definitely not be so smooth.

The generals nodded, and after the regular season awards, they also realized the strength of their Wizards, and they were so close to the championship that there was really no need to be dragged down by a team like the Heat.

Big Ben, Webb, Peja, Maddy and Nash started the game.

Tim Hardaway was pulled into the hospital the night before and woke up the next morning with a moderate concussion and couldn't play tonight.

So Nash won't have any defensive pressure tonight, and he can play and attack as much as he wants.

……

After the start of the game, Mark Strickland came to face Maddy, his defensive moves were not small, if Lin Yu guessed correctly, Riley Eight Achievements arranged for him to be black gloves.

Maddie was extra cautious, he had suffered a big loss before, and now he didn't want to repeat the same mistake.

Bryant frowned on the sidelines.

When Mark Strickland walked up to Lin Yu's side during the Heat's offensive round, Lin Yu took out the notebook pinned behind him.

"Hey, Mark, do you remember you scolded Lao Tzu before?"

"If you dare to hurt my players tonight, I'll put you in a notebook and wait until the offseason to kill you."

"Death Note, do you understand? If I can kill Childs, I can kill you, and you are not as valuable as Childs. ”

Lin Yu said and raised the black notebook in his hand.

Mark Strickland's face changed drastically, and as Lin had guessed, he did get instructions from Riley before the game, and promised that if he could hurt Maddie, he would be given plenty of playing time next season.

He's not a simple young man, he's 28 years old at the moment, and he knows all about Riley's methods, maybe he hurts Maddie on his side, and he'll be swept out of the game after the game.

Riley can definitely do this kind of thing, and Mark Strickland is incredibly sure of that.

But even if he knew that Riley didn't believe it, he wanted to give it a try, at least he could still have a thought.

However, Lin Yu's threat immediately scared him away.

If he doesn't follow Riley's instructions, he can't leave the Heat and find another team to join, and if he really gets the death note in Lin Yu's hand, he feels that his career will definitely be over.

After Childs was caught by Lin Yu as a Wizard, he didn't play a game, although he was later traded to the supersonics, but the supersonic was also a marginal substitute, because the shooting ability did not meet George Karl's expectations, I am afraid that the next will be more than lucky.

You must know that Childes is the starting point guard of the Eastern Knicks, and if you give Lin Yu such a whole thing, his career is almost useless.

What is Mark Strickland? He can't compare with Childes's strength at all, if Lin Yu is targeted and catches the Wizards for half a season or even a season, then he will not find this person in the league.

The key is that he doesn't need chips at all to trade, Lin Yu makes a deal casually, and let the other party trick him out of the heat, so that he can die without a place to be buried.

Mark Strickland was completely scared, and his defensive movements on the court were much smaller, and he didn't even dare to engage in high-intensity physical confrontation with Maddie.

He was really afraid that Maddie would be injured suddenly, and then Lin Yu would settle the account on his head, so who would he talk to.

"What are you shooting, what are you running? What should I do if I fall and get injured? ”

Mark Strickland whispered to Maddie.

This made Maddie confused, "Are you sick?" ”

"Yes, I do have a disease, you are not sick."

……

Riley soon realized that something was wrong, and the black gloves he sent out were as well-behaved as little sheep on the field.

Riley also heard Lin Yu's threat just now, he directly called a timeout, and then negotiated with the referee.

The reason for the negotiation was that Lin Yu threatened his players on the sidelines.

This is indeed a very reasonable reason, and a coach's foul is not just a foul that rushes into a fight and interferes with the opposing player's words.

However, this kind of thing is commonplace, and there is generally no coach of any team who will negotiate with the referee because of this matter.

The referee had no choice but to walk up to Lin Yu with Pat Riley, thinking that it would be okay to give Lin Yu a warning.

Both sides disagreed.

"What? He threatened my player with the intention of killing him, just as a warning?! Pat Riley roared.

"What? Why did I threaten, what to kill him, I can kill him by writing a name in my notebook, do you think I am God? Lin Yu said aggrievedly.

"He must have written something unsightly in his notebook that must be checked." Riley shouted, snatching the notebook from Lin Yu's hand while Lin Yu was not paying attention.

After opening it, his face turned weird, what is this?

He thought it would be written in some intimate matter, but the notebook was empty, just rows of names written on the first page.

Mark Strickland.

Pat Riley.

Larry Brown.

P.J. Brown.

Witherspoon.

Childes.

Tim Hardaway.

Callesimo.

……

Childs' line is quite special, and the name was crossed out by Lin Yu with a red pen.

The Wizards also craned their necks to look at the black notebook in Riley's hand, and couldn't help but laugh when they saw the names in this row.

Aren't these people the ones who offended Lin Yu before?

"Boss, so this is the Death Note? Yours is the real thing. ”

"Childs was crossed, which means that he is finished, and I don't know when the others will be crossed."

"Boss, this is your usual pastime? I said how do you never go to a nightclub. ”

The wizards made fun of Lin Yu.

Lin Yu looked embarrassed, snatched the notebook back into his hand, and scolded Pat Riley angrily: "Finished reading? You don't have to rush, the next one will be you, and when I pack up the Wizards and sell them, I'll buy the Heat! ”

Of course, his words were angry, this notebook is what Lin Yu usually writes and plays with without being bored, and at this point in time, the death note has not yet been created.

For Pat Riley to do this, the whole world knows that Lin Yu loves to hold grudges, and even has a notebook to record his enemies.

It's embarrassing, like the embarrassment of wearing women's panties and walking naked.

Although Lin Yu said angry words, he shocked Pat Riley to speechlessness, he really believed that Lin Yu, a madman, could do such a thing.

Yesterday, Bolin announced at a press conference that he would sell the remaining 50% of his shares to Lin Yu.

It is equivalent to saying that as long as Lin Yu signs a contract with Polin, he will be the only owner of the Wizards, and in a few years, the market value of the Wizards will skyrocket, and he will sell the Wizards, and he really has the financial resources to acquire the Heat.

The referee hurriedly separated the two and signaled for the game to continue.

There was no suspense in the rest of the match, and Mark Strickland was so scared that he knew he was already on Lin Yu's Death Note, and he even worried that this match might be the last game of his career.

After all, if the Heat lose tonight's game, their schedule will be completely over.