NBA: I'm really the Chosen One

Chapter 199 MVP Storm
"What? The award selection has been postponed? Why?" Ern Tailun whispered into the phone, his tone full of sternness. face.

"Tie, tm continue to vote! What's the situation? The other mvp received the award in the first round, and it's Li's turn to wait for the second round? What are you doing? I have so much money. Got a dog?"

Ern Tailun finally put down the phone with an angry face, then hurried to the second floor and pushed open the door of the gym. Li Zheng and Roy were sweating profusely.

"Good morning, Ern, your face is a bit ugly." Kevin Smith joked while assisting Li Zheng.

Earn Theron looked at Li Zheng pushing the barbell, suppressed the anger in his heart, and waved his hand to indicate that he was annoyed now. Kevin Smith tactfully helped Li Zheng unload the barbell.

"What's the matter?" Li Zheng was lying on the bench press with some doubts. He knew that Ern Theron would not disturb him with boring things during training, so there must be something urgent.

"The guy from the league office called me just now. There is something wrong with the MVP voting." Ern Tailun briefly described the current situation. Li Zheng took the water glass handed over by his assistant and killed more than half of it in one go. Poured the rest on the head.

"Vote? Did the mvp go to Yao Ming? It makes sense, who made our record not as good as others." Li Zheng said indifferently. Of course, he didn't really care about the honor of MVP, but if Yao Ming won this award, he would It's understandable, the best player on the league's No. [-] team, why doesn't he deserve this honor?
"Hey, it's very complicated. You, Yao Ming, and LeBron are tied." Earn Theron's words made Kevin Smith's jaw widen. This was big news.

The North American basketball world has already awarded the MVP to Li Zheng in advance. The main reason is that Li Zheng came to the league with the halo of the Chosen Son. A mere best rookie and All-Star MVP obviously cannot satisfy his appetite. He won the Rookie of the Year award without even making it to the playoffs. How could the media give away the honor to someone who is now a legitimately chosen son? Almost everyone is extremely optimistic about Li Zheng's return to the miracle of winning the regular season MVP in his rookie season.

But an accident happened. The MVP selection rule is the media scoring system. David Stern organized the selection with confidence, but found that the Houston media and the Cleveland media completely abandoned objectivity and professionalism. They not only gave the first vote to their own The boss of the team also uniformly ignored Li Zheng. Li Zheng, who ranked first on the list, failed to get any votes from these two places, and David Stern also found that he did not operate in the dark. A different kind of black hand silently manipulated the selection. If David Stern hadn't reacted in time to terminate the voting on the grounds of applause from the voting equipment, it is very likely that the fourth-ranked candidate, James, would react. Killing three people directly wins the MVP.

In the end, David Stern didn't reveal the whole truth to Ern Tailun. Such behavior could easily be retaliated by Li Zheng's team. At least the two guys who voted had a hard time. In the end, he chose to postpone Announce the time of the alliance's various awards, and strive for a buffer for the alliance.

"Equal ticket? I remember that Chris was behind Yao Ming." Li Zheng asked with a frown.

"Hehe, this alliance is dirtier than you think. That kid in jail is messing around again." Earn Theron said with gloomy eyes. The real MVP career, if he wasn't so greedy, he would really have put Yao Ming up.
"Apart from having 0.1 more rebounds than Lee, what stats are LeBron better than Lee? Team record? Points? Assists? Steals? Blocks? Plus-minus, efficiency? Have these guys grown?" Kai Vin Smith said angrily.

"I really can't accept such a result." Li Zheng's tone was flat, but Ern Tailun understood that Li was explaining his bottom line, and it seemed that he had to do something.

"Don't worry, I just didn't want to play dirty, and I can't be blamed for other people's moves." Ern Tailun said with a fierce expression.

"From 20 wins to 60 wins, there is no difficulty in the road to recovery." The Seattle Morning News recorded in detail that after Li Zheng's arrival, the Blazers jumped from a bad team with 20 wins to a powerful league with 60 wins. The variable shows that Li Zheng is equal to 40+ wins, because the strength of the Western Conference team has been greatly improved this season, and the difficulty for the Blazers to maintain 20 wins with the original team has also greatly increased.

"The most difficult road: the new god of the league under pressure." The Portland Post reported that Li Zheng began to receive high-pressure defense in the first game. The league referee did not escort him, but severely criticized his actions. Not only did Lee not enjoy the superstar whistle, he didn't even enjoy the whistle of the rookie bonus period like James Anthony Wade. In the end, they compared the tough battles of the Blazers this season with Li Zhengmeng's six-hour game. It can be concluded that the whistleblowing and punishment of Li Zheng in the Olympic Games is not as strict as that of the commercial league NBA.

"The real chosen one? The most accurate comparison, there is only one chosen person." ESPN columnist Bill Simmons, through dazzling tables and detailed customized data, provided a substantial data basis for Li Zheng to fully surround James , Bill Simmons not only provided accurate data, but also admitted that the current sample of Li Zheng's games is relatively small, so the comparison with James' entire career is not objective, and finally said that fans can look forward to his upcoming comparison with the same age group and the first season. Detailed comparison.

The Coca-Cola Company also immediately expressed their solidarity with Li Zheng. This year's MVP is the easiest one to choose. With perfect statistics, perfect team improvement, and perfect candidates, they said that no matter whether Li Zheng wins the MVP or not, They will release commemorative Coke with Li Zheng's portrait printed on the bottle as scheduled.

The overwhelming pressure made David Stern a little out of breath. He finally found out the evil consequences of conniving with the media. There was such a big resistance to the alliance's certainty. These wolves would not be satisfied with the interests he had planned. , Players, the agents behind the players, and even their bosses are all targets of the media.

"Adam, remember that there are some things that cannot be compromised." David Stern solemnly said to Adam Silver beside him. The only advantage of having a great stain on him is that it can give a somewhat cruel reminder to his chosen successor.

Adam Silver nodded heavily, keeping in mind the benefits of isolating players and the media. It is not easy to suppress the increasingly developed media power, but David Stern is right. Player control.

(End of this chapter)