basketball talent system

Chapter 482 The Unanimous MVP Controversy

After the best team was awarded, there was only one last award left to be awarded, and that was the award for the most valuable player in the regular season. However, when the voting results came out, it attracted a lot of unnecessary controversies .Because Curry, who has made history this year, actually won the regular season MVP award with unanimous votes. This is the first time in history that someone has been unanimously elected as the regular season MVP. Mr. Searle and others have never received such an honor.

However, after this result came out, it also caused dissatisfaction among a large number of players or former players. For example, in an interview with "Sports Illustrated", Payton said: "It is still a matter of the times. It depends on who is voting and how the overall environment is. ...I honestly don't think he deserves the unanimous MVP. I can name a few: Michael Jordan, they won 72 wins...why can't he be the unanimous MVP? Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell. I can name a bunch of guys who should be unanimous."

"However, this happened just like that, and the unanimous vote fell on Curry's head. I want to say that those above are all unanimously voted MVPs, but because of this era, everything is on Curry's side, Everything was in his favor, so this happened to him. He became the first unanimous vote." This is not the first time Payton has belittled Curry in public. He has said before that if Curry in the past Playing in this era, it is impossible for him to survive, and he will be prevented from death by himself.

While the elders have their own reasons, most of them seem to be utterly illogical and unreasonable.For example, Payton's latest remarks, he opposed Curry becoming the first unanimous MVP in history, on the grounds that there were a lot of players in the past who were better than Curry and deserved the unanimous MVP.However, the MVP selection is a review every season. Not all NBA players who have appeared in history are selected every season. How did the voters in 2016 rehabilitate Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for not getting unanimous votes?If Curry's performance cannot be unanimously approved this year, who should voters vote for this first ballot?So Payton's conclusion is that Curry should pay for the results of past superstars who failed to get unanimous votes from voters.This is obviously illogical.

However, some experts questioned that this was Xiao Hua's trick to create stars. After all, how many referees contributed to the Warriors' 73 victories this year? How dare the referee so obviously favor the Warriors?And everyone knows that Xiao Hua has been looking for an opportunity to surpass Stern since he took office. Previously, it was Ye Xuan, but this season Ye Xuan has been injured, so he became the Warriors and Curry.

To be honest, in fact, it is certain that Curry can win the MVP this season. After all, their team record is the first, and Curry is also the league's scoring leader and steals leader this season, no matter at the team level or at the personal data level , he is a well-deserved MVP, but this unanimous election is a bit inappropriate.Stronger than Jordan, in the 90s, he was not able to win the unanimous MVP, and Russell, who was as strong as 8 consecutive championships, also did not have this opportunity. Why did Curry be able to unanimous MVP this season?Some people even raised this matter to the height of conspiracy theory.

A few days ago, NBA legend Tracy McGrady and Dudley and others participated in the interview program of Yahoo Sports' famous Wojnarowski.In the show, McGrady continued to insist on his "not convinced that Curry can be unanimously elected MVP".But at the same time, he also emphasized that he has no personal problems with Curry, and he does not hate Curry.Many people congratulated Curry for being unanimously elected MVP, while others raised doubts.Among them is McGrady. He believes that Curry was able to be elected unanimously because there are too few contemporary superstars and the current league is too watery.This time, McGrady continued to reiterate his point of view.He first talked about the topic of changing the water in the league.Wojnarowski said: "NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that this may be the best era of basketball that many people have ever encountered."

Tracy McGrady laughed and said, "I'm just saying, if you look at the playoffs in the East, if you look at the Cavaliers and Pacers sweeping everything in the East, you will feel that this league is very watery. They have no challenge in the East, and other teams have no chance to beat the Cavaliers and Pacers. In the past, the level of teams in the East has not been so different. Has the East ever tried such a water era?" Then, woj said: "So, Curry was unanimously elected MVP and the league's water change is different."

McGrady said: "I agree, this is really a different topic. I don't hate Curry, nor is it against Curry. I love watching Curry's games very much. I was teammates with his father in Toronto. At that time, I played one-on-one with Curry. So, many people think that I hate Curry, don’t think so.”

McGrady continued: "I just can't understand Curry's unanimous MVP. Yes, he played a phenomenal season. But Jordan won the regular season MVP 5 times, and LeBron won the regular season MVP 4 times. However, you tell me, neither of these two guys were unanimously elected." Woj then said: "Remind, O'Neal only won the MVP once." McGrady said: "Yeah, Kobe only won it once An MVP. We're talking O'Neal, probably the greatest big man ever. So, I just don't get it, man."

In fact, before Curry, there were players who were very close to the unanimous MVP. Before him, two players missed this award by one vote, Shaq O'Neal in 2000, and LeBron James in 2013.Just in a previous interview, James carefully gave his opinion, 1. Curry deserves the MVP; 2. The definition of MVP is questionable.

The first article proves that there is no doubt about the MVP selection; the second article is a little bit of doubt about the unanimous MVP—from 1956 to 2015, for as long as 60 years, there was no unanimous MVP. Everyone has their own understanding of the definition of MVP.Why did all voters agree in 2016?One hypothesis: because of the real-name restriction.

In the 2012-13 season, James averaged 26.8 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 7.3 assists per game, shooting 56.5% from the field; 40.6% from the three-point range (40% for the first time in his career); The lowest in his career); especially in February, he scored 1.7 points, 3.0 rebounds, 2 assists and a shooting percentage of 29.7%. In addition to his 7.5-game winning streak for the Miami Heat, he finally got the highest 7.8 wins in team history ;The sensational effect at that time was not lower than that of Curry now. The media and fans (most of them) actually expected him to be unanimously voted MVP and refresh history.

But he ended up with 121 of the 120 first-place votes, and Carmelo Anthony got the remaining one.So, who would risk the world and not choose LeBron?LeBron also had a conspiracy theory at the time. He said: "This may be from the New York media. We know the grievances between the Heat and the Knicks. Everyone understands." A radio host of ESPN is also one of the 121 voters Batard, suddenly found that this is a good opportunity to be famous.He used the mechanism of anonymous voting to repeatedly hint on the radio that his first vote was for Anthony, and immediately squeezed into the headlines of major sports media.

A day later, "Boston Globe" columnist Gary Washburn wrote an article titled "Why I Voted Anthony as MVP."He explained several reasons in detail, one of which is that the Knicks can only compete for the lottery without Anthony, and the Heat can at least enter the top six in the Eastern Conference without LeBron.

This incident had two consequences.

2015. Batard completely became Zhanhei. In [-], he bet that if the Cavaliers won the championship, he would eat Xiang;
2014. Mary Schmitt Boyer, president of the Professional Basketball Writers Association (PBWA), exerted pressure to make voting public starting in 2014.Boyle is also a reporter for the Cleveland Candide. Of course, he didn't know that James would return to the Cavaliers in [-].

Voting to determine the MVP actually has too many uncertainties. In the 1995-96 season, the first full season after Jordan's first comeback, the Bulls won a record-breaking 72 wins, averaging 30.4 points, 6.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists, and 2.2 steals per game. They were the leading scorers in that season. Win shares (WS) are a staggering 20.4 -- Curry's 17.9 this season and 15.7 last season -- but he only got 113 of 109 first-place MVP votes, two of which went to "Penny" For Hardaway, one card was given to "Big Dream" Olajuwon, and one card was given to Karl Malone.

Why Malone?That season, both Malone's personal data and the record of his Jazz team declined compared with the previous season.In the end, Malone only scored 85 points - a total of 1130 points.Reporter Kevin Draper once criticized the NBA's voting mechanism, "Why would stakeholders (members of the team's local media) participate in a vote of this nature?"

For example, Walter Lazer, a Knicks star, works for MSG, and his boss is the Knicks owner James Dolan; another example is John Denton, he is a reporter on the official website of the Magic, and they all have the right to vote.However, public votes are also not as pure as the anonymous votes with private goods. Some journalists may not dare to make their own choices due to the pressure of public opinion. "Homogeneous" voting has become a new question.Especially in the Internet age, Twitter and emails allow fans to face reporters and columnists directly. Not everyone can calmly face the "greetings" of black and honey.

Curry's greatness is beyond doubt, but being unanimously elected is not what Curry's greatness can include.As LeBron said, what is the definition of MVP?We can then ask: Do the 131 people who voted have the same definition of MVP?Perhaps, real-name voting is the real answer for these 131 people.

Of course, Ye Xuan was inevitably involved in this turmoil, because a large number of fans who did not support Curry's unanimous election all used Ye Xuan as a comparison object to prove how many regular season MVPs Curry has this season. First of all, if Ye Xuan plays enough games, then he will be able to take away the titles of scoring champion and stealing champion from Curry. At the same time, Ye Xuan's efficiency value this season is actually very high, because of Ye Xuan's The rebounding skills have been thoroughly developed, so Ye Xuan's average data per game this season is also very good, reaching 34.2 points, 6.3 rebounds, 9.9 assists and of course 3.2 steals.

However, Ye Xuan himself is not too impressed with this statement. After all, he has been on hiatus for half a season. If he can still come out to participate in the competition for this kind of award, then simply don't do this in future statistics. Get 20 rebounds in a game, and then never play again, and then average 20 rebounds per game in the season, and sit firmly as the rebounding leader.

After such a small episode, Ye Xuan finally started his vacation life. At the beginning, Ye Xuan planned to chat with Howard, who had just been eliminated by the Warriors, to enlighten him, but he did not expect Howard himself But it was not as boring as Ye Xuan imagined. Instead, he started his vacation trip the day after being eliminated, and now he doesn't know which island to go to to blow the sea breeze and pick up girls.

In fact, there is not too much time for Ye Xuan to be happy, because this year is the Olympic Games, a large-scale sports event that is held every four years. After Ye Xuan joined the Chinese men's basketball national team, he has not yet played for the Chinese team. In the summer of 14, the Chinese team did not enter the main match of the Basketball World Cup. In the summer of 15, there was originally an Asian Championship that could be played, but because of Ye Xuan’s injury, the trip was not possible. This year In any case, Ye Xuan is going to participate in this Olympic Games. First, he can play for the country. Second, in this kind of international competition, he is the core of the team, so it is not easy to collect statistics. Pleasant thing?For Ye Xuan, swiping data is equivalent to swiping rewards, which is also equivalent to swiping his own survival time, which is swiping life!Ye Xuan didn't want to miss such a good thing.

So after finishing the commercial shooting work in the United States, Ye Xuan directly submitted an application to the men's basketball team through the agent team. In fact, the men's basketball team had already made up their minds. Ye Xuan took the initiative to join the team. The goal of the Chinese team for this year's Olympics is very high. After all, the United Arab Emirates is still playing, and the young stars like Zhou Qi are gradually growing up. It is a good time to train them. If Ye Xuan After returning, the Chinese team's perimeter problems can also be resolved, and then the top eight will no longer be an insurmountable obstacle.

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