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"Stephen, congratulations!"

When the FMVP result was announced, Durant was not surprised or frustrated. Instead, he turned around and hugged Curry and congratulated him.

"I know, I can do it. I did it, Doon!"

While responding to Duane, Curry reached out and took the FMVP trophy from Russell.

Next, Curry released his emotions on his own. He first held up the FMVP trophy high and showed it to the fans in the audience.

Then he hugged the FMVP trophy tightly in his arms, and then rested his head on the trophy, his shoulders trembling slightly.

At the same time, other Bulls players were also congratulating Curry in various ways.

Curry was probably too excited and immersed in his own world, so he did not respond for the time being.

Duane, who was standing side by side with Curry, also withdrew his hand from Curry.

After the other teammates touched and hugged the championship trophy, Duane naturally and righteously took the championship trophy for himself and held it in his own hands.

After a while, the championship award ceremony officially ended, and the Bulls happily returned to the locker room to celebrate.

Winning a championship at home is different from winning a championship away from home. At this time, the Bulls management had already prepared a large number of props for celebration in the locker room.

In addition, there was a special championship celebration cake.

After the Bulls players and coaching staff members stirred up a "bloody storm" in the locker room, team owner Jerry Reinsdorf personally pushed a food cart into the locker room.

Behind Jerry Reinsdorf are his children and team executives.

“Thank you guys for everything you do for this team.

You won a great victory!

You helped the team win a championship once again!
You have created another Bulls dynasty!
Your achievements should be remembered by all members of the Chicago Bulls!

On behalf of the team owner, team management, and the team's fans, thank you for everything you have done for the team.

Before attending the celebration party tonight, I hope to celebrate with everyone in advance!"

After Jerry Reinsdorf finished speaking, he carefully lifted the lid of the cake.

The cake only has three layers, but it is quite large.

The first layer is a rectangular block, roughly 28 inches long and 70 centimeters in diameter, with the Bulls logo painted on two sides.

It says "2016-2017 Championship" on the front and "Chicago Bulls Dynasty" on the back.

The second layer is a cylinder, roughly only 20 inches, or 50 centimeters, with a circle on the side painted with portraits of this season's Bulls players.

Duane's head is in the front, with Curry and Horford on both sides.

There are nearly twenty portraits on the cake, and anyone who played a game during the regular season was carved on the cake.

This situation also touched the first-year rookies in the locker room, who had not played many regular season games and were mostly relegated to the Development League.

On the top layer of the cake are two trophies, one large and one small.

The big one is the championship trophy, and the small one is the FMVP trophy.

There are two slices of bread of the same size inserted on the front of the trophy, with "Dunn 2016-2017" and "Stephen Curry 2016-2017" written on them respectively.

Obviously, the Bulls management expected that Durant would not get the FMVP.

Of course, the finals lasted for half a month, during which Duane kept feeding the ball to Curry, but he did not force the ball to him to improve his stats. This was obviously a behavior and attitude that praised Curry as the new king of the league, thereby continuing the Bulls' dominance.

Curry's performance is also not bad, and he does have the strength to rule the league.

The performance in this year's finals did not disappoint Duan's expectations and help. It can only be said that everything was as everyone expected.

Curry naturally took over Duane's job and won the FMVP trophy.

However, the Bulls management could not ignore everything Duane had done in the past and still placed Duane's "nameplate" in front of the larger championship trophy.

From this point of view, the Bulls management still recognizes Duane as the team's leader.

But starting next year, that may not be the case.

As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end.

Jordan will leave the Bulls and make a second comeback with the Wizards.

Olajuwon won the Rockets two consecutive championships, which was particularly rare, but he lost his competitiveness in his later years and was still kicked out.

In the next few years, although Durant still has considerable strength and competitiveness, the Bulls are undoubtedly Curry's team.

However, Dunn doesn't care what happens in the next few years.

After winning this year's championship, Durant has reached 9 finals with the Bulls. Adding the one he won in his first season with the Lakers as a rookie, he will have ten championship rings by the opening day of next season.

He is only two championships away from taking Bill Russell's "Lord of the Rings" crown and replacing him.

Duane recognizes Curry's ability to lead the team to win the championship.

Besides, it’s not like Duane will be completely useless in the next few years.

Strive to achieve the goal of 12 championship rings in three to five years.

It doesn’t matter whether he will be kicked out by the Bulls by then.

Anyway, since being traded from the Lakers to the Bulls, Duane no longer wants to participate in the one-man-one-city selection.

Of course, with what Duane has achieved in Chicago now, he can also be classified as one man, one city, but it’s not that pure.

Other people's mobile dynasties are considered dynasties. Duane has played for the Chicago Bulls for most of his career. Now he has led the team to win 9 championships. Why can't he be considered one man, one city?

Of course, Dunn himself doesn't care about this.

With 10 championships already in hand, the One Man, One City Award seems insignificant to Duane's personal honor.

By the way, after the boss pushed the cake into the locker room and showed it to everyone, everyone took a lot of photos with their mobile phones.

At first, everyone was reluctant to destroy the cake.

However, even if the team lineup is the same, even if they just won the championship together, they will still be broken up, dismantled, traded, and reorganized in the summer...

So, how long can a championship celebration cake that is destined to go bad be preserved?
Finally, with a single cut from Jerry Reinsdorf, the three-layer cake was split in half.

Not long after, Duen also took the cake knife and cut it hard.

The cake was quite large and after cutting and dividing it, there was still nearly three quarters left.

After a while, the families of Duane and others also came to the locker room to share the "honor" together.

Our children really liked eating cake, but there was still a lot of cake left over.

"Duane, this is yours. Everyone conscientiously left it for you."

Jerry Reinsdorf walked up to Duane carrying a plate of chocolate cake with the championship trophy on it.

"Well, okay. But I can't eat any more, so put it aside for now!" Duen smiled and replied.

Jerry Reinsdorf also smiled upon hearing this. (End of this chapter)