no shortcuts in basketball

Chapter 127 History II
The Bulls players started to rush towards Xu Yong, and Noah was as happy as a child weighing 230 pounds, hugged Xu Yong and started yelling.

Xu Yong also raised his head excitedly and roared.

In such a fierce game, it is so cool to be able to end the game in such a way!

And this is also the first time in his playoff career that he has contributed to a lore. In this kind of crucial battle, it is so cool!
Soon, Xu Yong was surrounded three times inside and outside by the Bulls players and media reporters.

Countdown lore, black eight miracles, Xu Yong wrote a strong stroke in the history books of NBA tonight.

"This is the fourth black-eight miracle in NBA history. Before that, there were three times. In 1993, the Nuggets beat the Sonics 3-2. At that time, the game system was still 5 games and 3 wins. The Knicks Black Eight Heat was the season when Jeff Van Gundy was dragged away holding Mourning's thigh. It was also 1999 to 3. In the end, we are all very familiar with 2. The old Nelson led the Warriors to defeat the old team 2007 to 4. The Dallas Mavericks."

Zhang Weiping, who had awakened from business, was frantically popularizing science in the commentary booth.

"A black eight with 7 wins in 4 games is more difficult than 5 wins in 3 games, so this should be regarded as the second time in history." Yang Yi corrected from the side, and he is also well versed in the way of customizing data.

Zhang Weiping nodded with a smile. What he said was correct. The longer the series, the better the strength of the team.

"Xu Yong's score seems to be 40 today?" Yang Yi reminded again holding the statistical table.

"Hey, really! 41 points, this is the first time for Xiao Xu to score 40+?" After recovering from the nervousness, Zhang Weiping's body gradually relaxed, and he returned to his usual commentary state.

"Yes, his highest score in the regular season is 40 points, and in the playoffs it is 34 points." Yang Yi has already done the statistics.

"This is the potential. Hey, look, generally only superstars can play better in the playoffs than in the regular season. If Xiao Xu continues to play like this, tsk tsk, it's incredible." Zhang Weiping shook his head while talking.

"It's terrible." Yang Yi cooperated and talked about cross talk.

While the two were chatting happily in the commentary booth, on the court, James looked at the Bulls celebrating in the distance, stood quietly for a long time, then took off his braces, looked up at the score, with a complicated expression.

In the two rounds before the end, he had experienced ups and downs, and Xu Yong's last lore shot was made against him, a serious kill.

This whole process is very similar to his Cavaliers career. He brought a small team to the championship team, reached the finals, suffered several setbacks, and finally ended in the most painful way.

He really longs to be like Jordan and turn the Cavaliers into an all-American team like the Bulls.

But he is not as lucky as Jordan. God always closes the door for him at the most critical time.

He finally withdrew his gaze, turned around and walked towards the player tunnel with his head down. He was really tired of such days.

The carnival at the scene lasted about five or six minutes.

After the carnival ended, the two teams shook hands after the game.

Most of the Cavaliers tipped their hats to the Bulls tonight.

Although there is no such thing as a glorious defeat, after losing such a head-to-head match tonight, they are convinced in their hearts.

"Man, you played great, great game." O'Neal kept praising when shaking hands with Xu Yong.

徐永今晚除了贡献41分外，还贡献了6板5助攻2抢断2盖帽，是毫无疑问的本场MVP球员。

And O'Neal is better than anyone else. After staying this season, he can probably guess that James will leave in the summer. In other words, the probability of him staying is not high, so he is a free agent at this time. What do you want to say? Just say what.

Xu Yong also reached out and patted O'Neal on the shoulder. To be honest, if Noah hadn't gained weight, O'Neal could still smash the Bulls inside.

Lian Po is old and can still eat.

After the handshake ceremony was over, Xu Yong and the Bulls players extended their hands to the audience, and they were greeted with cheers all over the sky.

To be honest, although it is unnecessary to support their home team, and there is an opener that overturned the Cavaliers, not many people really think that they can complete the black eight.

But now they really did, a fantastic experience.

A few minutes later, under the reluctant eyes of the fans, the players entered the player channel one after another.

Xu Yong stayed to be interviewed by reporters.

"Xu, congratulations, what a great game, what does it mean to you to be able to complete the black eight miracle?"

"It means we have completed the Black Eight Miracle."

Xu Yong's answer stunned the reporter, and then Xu Yongxian laughed.

In a good mood, he also started to play with a cold humor.

"Just kidding, it was a big deal for us, nobody was looking at us before the game, the Cavaliers picked us on purpose, we proved ourselves, but like I said when I was drafted by this team, we Young but full of vigor, the future is worth looking forward to." Xu Yong continued.

The reporter also laughed. People who really have a sense of humor are very popular with the media.

"You and LeBron had some quarrels during the game, can you tell us what you said between you?" The reporter then asked.

"Just some normal trash talk."

"Can you paraphrase it?"

"No, I won't, it's something on the court, just let it stay on the court." Xu Yong smiled and shook his head.

Although this kind of trash talk is very gimmick, but when it comes down to the stage, it appears to be unmannered.

"Have you considered playing against the Celtics? You know, before this game, they have already confirmed that they will play against you in the next round." Seeing this, the reporter didn't ask any more questions, but talked about a topic .

"No, we just want to enjoy the night now, Black Eight Miracle, man, you know the gold content."

After saying this, Xu Yong saw that Zhang Weiping and the others had come, said hello, and walked towards them.

On a night like this, he still wants to chat more with domestic fans.

……

"Satan Judgment, Bull Black Eight"

"Career's first 40+, countdown lore, Chicago no longer needs God"

"Zero Angle Guillotine, Knife King, Best Shot of the Season"

After the Bulls Black Eight game, although ESPN did not make a big report, it could not stop the random killings of TNT and other mainstream media.

The media is all about traffic. If we don’t cover such historic records and epic games like crazy, it would be a shame to call them media.

But at this time, the James team released a message: James is considering thumb surgery in the summer because of the aggravation of his injuries in combat.

This wave of news came out, causing many fans on social media to feel distressed.

Fighting with injuries and scoring an absolute goal, James tried his best. Although the Cavaliers lost, James did not lose.

And there are voices on social media urging James to leave the Cavaliers.

"You've done your best for this city, and you don't owe Cleveland anything."

"The Cavaliers lost because of the management. They failed to recruit strong teammates for James. Kobe had Gasol, but the Cavaliers only had James."

"It's time to let James go. Kobe is in a big city like Los Angeles. It is a mistake for James to be selected by the Cavaliers."

This wave of voices successfully changed the topic. After the fans paid attention to James' injury and James' summer stay, their attention to Hei Ba quickly declined.

……

On the second day, except for the game between the Eagles and the Bucks in the East, the other games have all ended one after another.

太阳4比2顺利拿下掘金，湖人4比2淘汰雷霆，火箭也以4比2成功复仇爵士，不过小牛队爆冷2比4输给了马刺，诺维茨基的软蛋这下是彻底锤死了。

In Oklahoma, Durant was simmering with anger.

He felt cold tonight, only 23 of 5 shots, and only scored 26 points by free throws.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that the Thunder had a chance to play the series to Game [-], but Kobe directly killed them with a sword before the end.

It’s really Kobe. The Lakers scored 32 points tonight. Fisher and Shannon Brown scored 11 points. Others, such as Gasol, Lamar Odom, and Bynum, scored in single digits. The perfect opportunity passed by.

Now he really wants to go and blow up the Lakers locker room as Wade said.

He can only take out social media and vent his emotions on it.

"What are you talking about, Kobe will not use injury as an excuse to play, and it is a pure excuse, what Iron Man, he can still play with a broken bone?"

"Run if you can't beat it, Kobe will never be like you, it's really embarrassing!"

"Why don't you say that Tim Duncan is in San Antonio, Kevin Durant is in Oklahoma, and your king is special?"

Durant is really crazy.

And at this time, the teammates around him could feel his angry aura, and no one dared to approach him.

Except Harden.

Because of the previous "number one grace", the relationship between Harden and Durant has improved very quickly.

But looking at it, Harden suddenly froze for a moment.

He immediately reached out and held Durant's fast hand.

Durant was very upset to be interrupted, and frowned when he saw Harden.

Harden immediately leaned over and reminded in a low voice: "Account number."

Durant didn't react the first time, and he was shocked when he looked at the account.

He forgot to cut the number!

Now use the large size!
Fortunately, Harden reminded him in time, and the last message with his name was not sent.

But the two items that were sent out earlier can no longer be withdrawn.

Although he deleted it very quickly, there are already screenshots of fast-handed fans.

The news that Durant is teasing James now is estimated to spread soon.

"James, are you familiar with nightclubs in Oklahoma?" Durant asked after putting his phone away.

"...It's okay." Harden motioned Durant to keep his voice down.

"Let's go, I'll pay for tonight's consumption." Durant said, already carrying his schoolbag and heading out.

I can't read social media today, so I have to find a place to vent.

Harden immediately followed with a smile when he heard this.

……

Two days after most of the first-round series ended, the league announced the ownership of the third batch of season awards.

Prior to this, the league had announced the best defensive player and best coach awards between the first round of the series. The two awards belonged to Dwight Howard of the Magic and Scott Brooks of the Thunder.

Among them, Howard won the award for the second consecutive year.

There is only one award in the third batch, and it is also the award with the highest attention: MVP.

There is a small detail here, which is related to the Warriors' black eight.

After Nowitzki was eliminated, according to his own description in future interviews, he was extremely embarrassed at the time. He let his city and team down, and he just wanted to escape quickly and find someone who didn’t know him. A place to go on vacation or do something else.

However, the league called him at that time to tell him not to leave in a hurry, because there is still an MVP award that has not yet been awarded, and Nowitzki is one of the popular candidates.

At that time, Nowitzki replied directly: "Give it to others, I don't deserve it this year."

But this kind of honor is definitely not forgivable. Afterwards, he was really selected as the MVP, and the league also held a grand award ceremony for him.

Two weeks after the Mavericks were hacked, he put on a suit and gave one of the most painful and embarrassing acceptance speeches of his life.

It is precisely because of that kind of thing that the league later changed the MVP selection time and brought it forward to almost the end of the first round.

In this way, even if a similar situation occurs again, the second "Nowitzki" will not be left in vain.

Of course, this is actually more to allow the stars to have more personal time in the summer. After all, most of the candidates who can be candidates are famous stars.

And this kind of thing that won the MVP but was eliminated in the first round is really rare. In the entire NBA history, Nowitzki is also a scorpion shit, the only one.

Because not to mention winning the MVP, the black eight happened a total of three times, and the probability is comparable to winning the lottery.

Anyway, this year's MVP selection came earlier than in previous years.

Because the second round of the series has not yet started at this time, the results of this selection have also attracted much attention.

The final result came out without too many surprises. With the regular season average of 29.7 points, 7.3 rebounds, 8.6 assists, 1.6 steals and 1 block, 50.3% field goal percentage (a career high), 33.3% three-point field goal percentage, and team league The first record, James won more than 37% of the votes, and in an almost crushing way, he beat Durant (19%), Kobe (18.7%), and Howard (14%), and successfully won the MVP award again.

He also became the 10th player to complete back-to-back MVPs after Bill Russell, Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, "Magic" Johnson, Jordan, Duncan, and Nash.

There is no doubt that James and the Cavaliers have had a great season.

It's just that this honor also made him the second player in history to be eliminated in the first round after winning the MVP honor.

This list, which was dominated by Nowitzki in the past, finally ushered in the second person.

　It is said that the ancients are really awesome. Is it true that once the beginning of autumn passes, it will feel cold in an instant?Especially noticeable in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)