Legendary star

Chapter 759 Conquest
On May 2008, 5, after all the games in the first round of the 2-07 season playoffs were over, the NBA held an awards party called MVP Night at New York's Madison Square Garden, which was the same as the official MVP night in previous years. The winners of each award are announced on the website. Different from the voting results, all the awards of this season's regular season will be awarded on the spot and will be broadcast live simultaneously across the United States.

"Gentlemen and ladies, welcome to Madison Square Garden to participate in the NBA 2007-2008 season regular season awards ceremony and MVP night!" At 7 o'clock in the evening, two ABC TV network hosts dressed in Chinese costumes walked up After a brief opening speech, the entire Madison Square Garden burst into applause.

I have to admit that David Stern's mind is good. A regular season awards ceremony can be turned into a tool for making money. In the past, it would be to announce the winners on the official website, and then hold a press conference. Put all kinds of trophies in the hands of the winners and it's over. The awards ceremony this season is so good that it's almost full of fun. Not only is it placed in the high-profile Madison Square Garden for ticket sales, David S. Turn also invited celebrities and politicians from all walks of life in the United States to participate in today's awards ceremony. As for the broadcast rights of this evening's show, that is not included in the NBA's broadcast agreement. The female members of the En family greeted it all over again, but ABC still had to pinch its nose and pay an additional $10 billion for exclusive broadcast rights for the next five years.

After the host's opening remarks, the big dream Olajuwon, Admiral Robinson, the gorilla Ewing, the big shark O'Neal, and the four major centers who were once all-powerful, appeared on the podium one after another amidst the applause of the audience. The four of them will announce the best team of the season and the list of the best defensive team.

The best defensive team was announced first. The first team selected for the best defensive team this season are center Marcus Camby, two forwards Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, and two guards Kobe Bryant. Te and Meng Xu.Dwight Howard, Bruce Bowen, Tyshawn Prince, Raja Bell and Chris Paul were selected to the second team of the best defensive team after the first team of the best defensive team. The best defensive lineup does not have a trophy, so all the players selected do not need to appear on the stage to receive the award. After the portraits of all ten players selected for the best defensive lineup collectively appear on the big screen in the center of the court, the award of the best defensive lineup is considered It's over.

After announcing the Best Defensive Team, Shaq O'Neal also teased him by the way, saying that he is very envious of the current insiders, and that he doesn't have to be in the same era as himself with a group of perverts, otherwise with his own defensive ability, he won't In his entire career, he couldn't even get into the All-Defensive Team once. He was only selected to the All-Defensive Team for the second team three times in humiliation. With a bitter smile on his face, compared to O'Neill, Ewing is probably the most bitter and aggrieved one among the four major centers!

After O'Neal's ridicule ended, they began to announce the selection results of the best team one after another. Compared with the best defensive team, the selection of the best team undoubtedly made Shark O'Neal more sad. The selection of the best team this season is the first time that O'Neal has been absent from the best team since his rookie season, so in all fifteen of the best team selections After reading the list of players, O'Neal's face was also a little ugly, especially when Olajuwon teased him that he should retire as soon as possible, so as not to be a substitute in the future, O'Neal's face was even more ugly.

Compared with last season, there are a few fewer old faces selected for the best team this season. According to the past practice of the NBA, most of the stars who have given up the best team are hard to come back. The best lineup, only two old faces of Meng Xu and Kobe are left. Tim Duncan has been selected to the best team for ten consecutive seasons, and the record of being selected to the double team for nine consecutive seasons has been officially interrupted this season. The 32-year-old Tim Duncan may never come back.

With Shaquille O'Neal absent from the best team, there are Allen Iverson, Tracy McGrady, Gilbert Arenas, and Chauncey Billups. Returning to the best team, everything is still unknown.

After the announcement of the best team, Grant Hill and Jason Kidd jointly announced the best rookie lineup of the season, and the first single award for the best rookie, in the selection of the best rookie of the season , Kevin Durant, with a 72% first-choice rate, defeated Al Horford and Luis Scola without any suspense, becoming the best rookie of the season. Oden was reimbursed for the season without playing a game this season.

The announcement of the best rookie also represents a way out for many individual awards. After the best rookie, the Magic's Hedo Turkoglu was elected as the most improved player, and the Hornets coach Byron Scott Elected as the best coach, Danny Angie of the Celtics was elected as the best general manager of the season because of the successful recruitment of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. Kevin Garnett, who will go to the Celtics, won the best defensive player for the first time in his career.

After most of the awards belonged one by one, all the attention of the audience was focused on the podium in the center of the court. NBA President David Stern already took the award with a smile on his face. Walking up to the center of the podium with a card folded in half, as the most important award in the regular season, it is natural that the most important person is needed to announce the winner, and this person is naturally none other than President David Stern up.

"Now I announce that the most valuable player of the 2007-2008 season is..." David Stern opened the card in his hand, and with a very old-fashioned long voice, he paused slightly After a while, he opened his mouth and revealed the final answer: "Meng Xu from the Indiana Pacers!"

When David Stern just uttered the letters Indiana, the live broadcast shot was directly shown to Meng Xu who was sitting on the sidelines, and then Madison Square Garden was drowned in applause and cheers.

After getting up and high-fiving Kobe and Paul beside him, Meng Xu walked slowly onto the podium, heading towards the fifth MVP trophy in his career.

"Meng, congratulations, congratulations on becoming the first regular season MVP in NBA history to receive all the first votes!" After handing the MVP trophy in his hand to Meng Xu, David Stern said softly : "I hope you can fulfill your promise to me."

This season, the Pacers, in the absence of All-Star power forward Jermaine O'Neal, still have the second record of 63 wins and 19 losses in the league. In addition, Meng Xu averaged 82 points per game in 33 regular season games. , 10.5 rebounds, 11 assists, 3.3 steals, and 1.8 blocks, so no matter how you look at it, Meng Xu is a well-deserved regular season MVP. Even when voting for the regular season MVP, USA TODAY disclosed For Meng Xu's platform, he said that the Pacers' record this season is more valuable than their two seasons of 74 wins and 70 wins, because this season's Pacers, except for Meng Xu, have no All-Star players. It is definitely a miracle that a team can still achieve a record of 63 wins!

"He conquered everyone!" When Meng Xu raised the regular season MVP trophy with one hand, all the audience at Madison Square Garden left their seats and shouted the slogan "MVP" in unison.

(End of this chapter)