Nine Hundred and Eighty-Five. Set Sail
This year's MVP voting has 115 first and second votes swept by three people!
Sun Ce received 65 first votes, 32 second votes, 18 third votes, and VP!
Kobe received 30 first votes, 42 second votes, 9 third votes, and a total of 639 points, ranking second.
James received 30 first votes, 41 second votes, 10 third votes, and a total of 637 points, ranking third.
These three people not only swept the first and second votes, but also more than a quarter of the third votes, but the fourth and fifth votes were not taken. Obviously, in the eyes of voters, the three of them should be the top three MVPs, and the only difference is that they want to vote for them or not, and it is limited to the third votes that are not all cast for them.
Among them, Sun Ce received a total of 115 votes, which means that every voter voted for him!
The fourth place is Parker with 212 points, and the fifth is Rose with 176 points.
There were other people who got votes from 3rd to 5th, but their total scores did not exceed 100 points. Durant ranked 6th, Howard ranked 7th, Evans ranked 8th, Rondo ranked 9th, Duncan ranked 10th, and Lawson ranked 11th.
There were 14 people who got votes this year, but the votes from 12th to 14th did not exceed 10 points, namely Wade, Gasol, and Love.
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Sun Ce was not the only player who watched the award announcement in front of the TV.
In Los Angeles, Kobe reached out to Gasol: "Give me 100 yuan."
Seeing Kobe's proud look, Gasol was speechless. You lost the MVP!
Also, who did you learn this face from? Gasol felt that Kobe had grown crooked... Speechlessly took out his wallet and put a 100-dollar bill in Kobe's hand.
Kobe happily accepted the 100 yuan. He lost 2,400 US dollars to the guy who just won the MVP last summer, and now he finally earned some back.
In fact, before the award was announced, Kobe still had some expectations. He didn't care whether he won the MVP or not. This is true, but it is impossible not to want to win.
Of course, whether in an interview or when betting with Gasol, Kobe said that Sun Ce should win the MVP.
James won the best defensive player. Kobe was very emotional. The biggest regret in his career was not that he didn't win enough championships or too few MVPs, but that he didn't win the best defensive player like Jordan.
However, Kobe thought this year was very interesting. The three most watched awards happened to be won by the top three MVP votes. He won the scoring title, James won the best defensive player, and Sun Ce won the MVP.
"Paul, the NBA is getting more and more interesting, right?"
"Ah?" Gasol was still annoyed that Kobe's style had changed, and he responded subconsciously.
Regardless of Gasol's reaction, Kobe said to himself: "It's so interesting that we can still compete for the championship after that bastard entered the NBA..."
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In Miami, James jumped up with excitement when he saw that he won the best defensive player. After returning to Miami today after sweeping the Bucks last night, James has been watching the TV.
Although he expected to win the best defensive player, in fact, this award is more difficult than his MVP. I didn't expect to really win it.
This at least gave him a guaranteed honor this season, and it also made James more looking forward to winning the MVP. The best defensive player has been obtained, and the hope of winning the MVP has greatly increased.
However, in the end, the MVP was still taken away by Sun Ce.
Thinking of Sun Ce's steady growth year after year, James couldn't help but sigh.
Disappointment is not very disappointing. In the last six games of Sun Ce's regular season, he played 50+ twice, including one 60+ and two triple-doubles.
After James and Kobe failed to compete for the scoring title, he only had expectations for the MVP.
In the playoffs, after Sun Ce scored 50+ in two consecutive games, James basically gave up, but like Kobe, he would always look forward to the last minute before the award ceremony.
Now it is already very good to get the best defensive player.
But Sun Ce...
James will not miss the opportunity to get along well with any potential stock. There is no situation that he will not do it, only whether he can do it well.
After Sun Ce scored 50+ in a single game against the Warriors in his rookie season, James began to pay attention to Sun Ce.
After Sun Ce averaged 12+7+7 in his rookie season, some people said that Sun Ce's talent limit was probably here, and he would be a very good organizing point guard. If he could practice shooting, he would have a chance to increase his average score to about 15 points.
With a core play style, he averaged about 15+7+7, which is a very good second-in-command. There is no problem for the second-in-command to be the tactical core. The Lakers are like that, so James has been more concerned about getting along well with Sun Ce since 2010.
Later, after the sophomore year, Sun Ce won the MVP. At that time, some people said that Sun Ce's talent had reached its limit again. He was the perfect system player. He could average 20+12VP per game in the right system, but his performance when leading a weak team alone should be around 17+8+7+2 per game. He is expected to improve to become a top ten player in the league who can get 20+8+6 when leading a team alone, and have a chance to become one of the best five players.
By that time, James was already familiar with Sun Ce. A young player with real top ten or even top five potential in the league in the future, he not only attracted Sun Ce, but the two also truly became friends.
But now...Sun Ce has 24+13+5+3 this season...and he has won two consecutive MVP awards!
"What's the promised talent limit?"
Although he is happy to see Sun Ce's progress and James is eager to compete with opponents like Sun Ce and Kobe Bryant in all aspects, James also feels that the future may become very difficult.
Shaking his head, James sighed, smiled again, and murmured: "I will definitely succeed, no matter who is in front of me..."
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Sun Ce won the consecutive MVP!
Following Duncan, Nash, and James, the fourth consecutive MVP since the new century was born!
At the same time, Sun Ce also became the 11th player in NBA history to win the regular season MVP for two consecutive seasons!
Nowitzki is the first NBA regular season MVP in history who has not been trained by the American youth basketball system, and Sun Ce is the first consecutive MVP who has not been trained by the American youth basketball system!
Today is the day of the Tianwangshan battle between the Grizzlies and the Mavericks. It was originally the most watched matchup in the entire first round. Because Sun Ce won the consecutive MVP, the fans' enthusiasm became even more intense.
If Lin Kuangsheng came out of nowhere and played a short but legendary time with an earth-shattering gesture, many people who had lost their yearning for basketball, or any sports, or even life, found it again because of Lin Kuangshen. Jeremy Lin has become another inspirational model after Steve Nash.
Then Sun Ce's performance can be said to be unprecedented!
Only then did people remember that they had also put the inspirational hat on Sun Ce's head, but Sun Ce took off the inspirational hat bit by bit.
But it's not that Sun Ce himself has become decadent and stopped working hard, but that through his hard work, people can no longer put him and inspiration together.
Before Sun Ce, there were only two regular season MVPs who were not first-round picks. Chamberlain was one of them, but he was special. He was selected under the local draft terms and was not regarded as a non-first-round pick MVP.
Before Sun Ce, only Moses Malone, a legendary superstar who was selected in the third round of the ABA draft, was a true non-first-round pick who counterattacked and won the regular season MVP.
But after Moses Malone won the MVP, people seemed to forget that he was picked at a very low draft and was not drafted by the NBA but only by the ABA. Similar to Sun Ce, the performance of the two of them made people forget about their draft picks. .
However, although Moses Malone was drafted low, he was one of the best non-professional basketball players in the United States in high school. Only Klay Thompson’s father, Michael Thompson, Magic, Bird, and Bernard King There are only a few people who can compare to Moses Malone during his high school years.
The inspirational thing about Moses Malone is that he was the first high school rookie to enter the NBA or ABA. He helped high school players open the way to the NBA when people were extremely unfavorable. Only then did Garnett, Kobe, and The possibility of McGrady and others entering the NBA as lottery picks.
But Sun Ce is obviously more inspirational than Moses Malone!
After Sun Ce won the MVP, the program T.N.T had long prepared for Sun Ce - "Lord's Journey" was broadcast on the T.N.T official website.
Sun Ce tried out everywhere during the draft, but because he had no college experience and only had one NBA game, and his skills and physical fitness were not good, and he was not fully developed, no team was willing to commit to the draft.
He finally got drafted by the Warriors and played 10 wonderful games. However, he was used by the Warriors to trade for the second overall pick, and he was given an unprotected first-round pick...
After such a start in his career, he won consecutive MVP awards in just three years. People found that this is the ultimate representative of inspiration!
It's just because of Sun Ce's performance that people can no longer simply associate him with inspiration. They also forget that he entered the NBA as a second-round pick. Many people even directly regarded him as the second pick.
From not even playing in the NCAA three years ago, to now, it can be called a truly legendary start to his career!
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After getting the MVP, Sun Ce turned off his computer and disconnected his mobile phone from the Internet. He only maintained the call and text messaging functions. He also only answered calls from some familiar friends. He did not answer calls from other people for the time being and planned to reply later. Just send a text message to say thank you.
Some people make phone calls very quickly, and some people seem to take several minutes to send a text message with just a few words, because it is just one sentence, but it ends up being sent in two text messages, with a gap of four minutes...
Sun Ce didn't want to be disturbed by the outside world. After dealing with the congratulations from familiar friends, he turned off his mobile phone and lay down to rest, waiting to warm up and wait for tonight's game.
At 3:30 in the afternoon, Sun Ce was called up to have something to eat. He started to warm up at 4:30. When the warm-up ended at around 6 in the evening, Sun Ce accepted a pre-game interview and was asked about the analogy of someone winning him the MVP award. As a legend, Sun Ce replied:
"Legend? I'm still far away. Forget MVP. That's just a trophy now. I just want to win the championship. My journey has just begun."