The rest is just noise

Chapter 1313 of the text volume, that’s it. All the major awards in the regular season have been concluded, except for the MVP, which has no final answer.

There are three and a half MVP contenders this year, namely Benjamin Wilson, Michael Jordan, Ralph Sampson and Karl Malone.

In fact, for most of the regular season, Wilson's MVP call was almost overwhelming.

It wasn't until after the All-Star Weekend that Jordan created suspense with his unparalleled personal performance.

In 82 regular season games, Jordan averaged 30.4 points, 7.7 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game, leading the team to the second-best record in the league.

Compared with Jordan's overall performance so far in his career, this data can only be regarded as below average. However, compared with Wilson's average of 26.6 points, 7.4 rebounds and 8.1 assists per game, it is still slightly advantageous.

Moreover, Wilson had a very dominant scoring season last season, leading the Lakers to 64 wins without a second superstar around him. It can be said that he is well-deserved to be elected as the MVP.

This season, the Lakers strengthened in all aspects and introduced Barkley, Dumars, Burrows and other strong players. As a result, the number of wins increased by 2 games.

Some harsh critics say:

Louis will not be merciful to such nit-picking idiots: The person who scored 98 points this year is not that good? I don’t want to listen to those clichéd nonsense. Benj is the MVP of this season. This is nonsense.

No doubt"

As for the semi-MVP contender in Boston, he is basically a runner-up in splitting votes.

There is a view that the reason why Sampson and Malone are in the MVP discussion is entirely because the defending champions have lost their popularity.

Moreover, the Knicks' lineup, which they paid $300 million in luxury taxes to build, only managed 57 wins this year. This is by no means a basketball problem.

In other words, only winning 57 games with such good teammates indirectly proves that no one in the Knicks deserves to be named MVP this year.

Even if Louis were to step down in person, those who decided not to vote for Wilson would still not vote for him.

Unless Wilson proves with facts that he is the MVP.

The Ga2 between the Lakers and Spurs is such a game.

Tonight, the Lakers' big man, Kevin Garnett, picked up three fouls early and sat on the bench for a long time.

Rodman acted like crazy and was angry with the referee. He received two technical fouls and was ejected at the speed of light.

The Lakers were forced to play a game where they had no advantage inside.

When Garnett and Rodman can't play, Barkley's offense determines how thick the Lakers still have inside.

But in the era, Louis opened the magic box of naming, and almost all head coaches equipped their own ace with corresponding tactics.

With no one to help on the defensive end, Barkley will lose more points than he scores as long as he is not in good condition.

Moreover, the Lakers' interior talent has plummeted, giving the Spurs sufficient confidence to win in the frontcourt.

The Spurs grabbed 15 offensive rebounds, more than 35% of the offensive rebound rate, and scored more than half of the points in the penalty area.

Under normal circumstances, what awaited the Lakers would be a disastrous defeat.

They will lose a lot of points.

But Wilson didn't let that happen.

Louis put the Cavaliers on the court early to activate the system. Because Garnett committed too many fouls, Louis put the tragedy man at center, and Ellis temporarily returned to the lineup.

Nash, Liu Yuqing, Wilson, Ellis, and Tragedy. Among these five players, the player with the lowest three-point shooting percentage is Tragedy. And this so-called player with the lowest three-point shooting percentage among the five also has 38% of three-pointers.

Rate.

The remaining four have three-point shooting percentages above 40.

This is the Royal Salute that many stars will never encounter in their lifetime.

Wilson could sense that his moment had come.

In the first half, the Lakers trailed by 15 points.

In the game, Wilson relied on the four shooters on the outside and once again transformed into the eye of the storm on the field. With himself as the absolute core, he used four terrifying space points on the outside to create an offensive performance that transcended the times.

When Wilson calls the pick-and-roll, the Spurs have only two options: leave open a shooter who averages over 40% from three-point range, or give Wilson a chance to mismatch the offense.

Popovich was not crazy enough to use his own head to test whether the opponent's three-point arrow was sharp, so he chose to take the initiative to dislocate Wilson.

Wilson used a dominant performance of 44 points and 8 assists in the half to prove to the Spurs that the conqueror who scored 66 points in the finals tiebreaker still retains the strength of the year.

This is the complete personal ability of a star.

Louis didn't even look at Garnett when he got to the back. Even though the game was already in the fourth quarter and there was plenty of time, he pinned the opponent to the bench.

There is no other reason, Louis said:

Garnett lowered his head in shame, but the old guy Kareem Abdul-Jabbar responded stubbornly:

Garnett thought to himself, is Big Dipper bad?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s words are even more astonishing:

Garnett said firmly:

Louis discovered that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a master of crooked buildings. He is educating Garnett. What nonsense does Chamberlain ask? Can you please stop venting your personal emotions at this time?

Bird rolled his eyes, how could that be possible?

Louis, who came online, made the current dog special anxious:

It was okay if Bird didn't say anything, but Louis couldn't bear it when he did.

Ever since Bird accepted the job of Garnett's development coach, Louis has been holding a sword that can find trouble with him at any time.

As long as Garnett can't play well and finds faults, it's useless for Bird to quibble.

Because Garnett's mistakes can be equated to him making mistakes because he failed to teach him well.

It was rare to see a player other than himself being scolded by Louis, and Kobe felt inexplicably amused.

When Louis left the locker room, Kobe greeted Garnett:

Garnett's reputation for being thick-skinned and not afraid of getting beaten annoyed Bird.

Then Bird took over Louis' work and began a fifteen-minute speech.

When Kobe looked at Garnett like that, he was obviously used to being scolded.

"Looking at it this way, your life as a kid was pretty good. No one has ever scolded you like that," Da Ben teased.

Kobe arrogantly said: "That's because I did a great job teaching

Practice the assigned tasks."

Except for Wilson, no one can truly feel the positive impact on public opinion of leading the team to win the game with Super C's performance in the semifinals.

The next day, Wilson's performance of 59 points, 7 rebounds and 13 assists against the Spurs dominated the sports pages of all newspapers.

How much impact does this have on Wilson's MVP streak?

If you ask Louis, he definitely doesn't know, because he was not in the mood to be happy for Wilson that night. After scolding Garnett and Bird, he went back and scolded him severely outside the arena.

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three days later

Benjamin Wilson was elected MVP for the 16-97 season with a clear advantage.

This is Wilson's third MVP trophy in his career.

Wilson held a brief press conference before the start of Game 3 of the semifinals against the Spurs away from home.

He thanked everyone as usual and then answered reporters' questions about the impact of his third MVP award on himself.