King of the Point Guard Era

Chapter 173 Best Rookie
That night, the Kings team returned to Sacramento, ending their journey for the season. Although the end of the season was a bit disappointing in the first round, it was acceptable to the team. In the series, they averaged 27.2 points and 10.8 assists per game. Although He Yixiang lost the ball, his wonderful performance also made all the media marvel that a super point guard is about to be born in the NBA.

On April 4th, after returning to Sacramento, many Kings players started their vacation life. Yi Jianlian is ready to return home. The domestic CBA finals have been played, and his old club has won 30:4. In XJ Guanghui, his former teammate Wang Shipeng was elected as the MVP of the finals, and the national team has already started training for the Asian Championships to be held in Wuhan, China in September. He Yixiang and Yi Jianlian are the two most important members of the Chinese team. .

On May 5st, Game 1 of the first round was over. The Grizzlies completed a black-eight miracle against the Spurs and eliminated the No. 4 Spurs in the Western Conference 2:4.The defending champion held on to the glory of the first half and sent off the Blazers 2:4.The Thunder also defeated the Nuggets who made a big deal this year.At the same time, the top three teams in the upper half of the Eastern Conference all won by a large margin. Only the Magic, led by Howard, suffered a big fall on the Eagles. Joe Johnson and Josh Smith played the Magic's strikers into a thousand holes. Baikong, and the Eagles also advanced to the next round with a big score of 2:[-].

In the first round, none of the games reached the tiebreaker, which also disappointed many neutral fans who hoped to see a fierce tiebreaker.But fortunately, the Heat played against the Celtics in the second round. The feud between James and the Celtics also made them the most popular second-round matchup.

At the same time, this season's season awards have also begun to be released one by one. The Timberwolves' Love won the MIP, the Most Improved Player Award. He is the first player to get 20+15 since Moses Malone. Although the Timberwolves This season is not satisfactory, but the king who returned strongly this season gave the Timberwolves more confidence.

The best sixth man is Lamar Odom of the Lakers. This year, he seems to have ushered in a second spring. After the Lakers left many champions, his data has increased, averaging 14.4 points per game. 8.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists.

The best defensive player award seems to have become Howard's back garden. He has won this award for the third consecutive year. He has become the first player in the NBA to win dpoy three consecutive times. Ben and Mutombo.

After that, the best rookie was awarded, and all Kings fans were staring at this point. Almost everyone felt that the best rookie this time was basically He Yixiang.But Griffin also played shocking data, averaging 22.5 points and 12.1 rebounds per game.More importantly, he is a native American, while He Yixiang is a yellow-skinned Chinese. On the surface, these votes must be fair and just, but it is really difficult to do when it involves some nationalities and races. Fairness in every way.

"If the best rookie is really given to Griffin, then I really want to be really disappointed in the NBA as a business league. It's not that he is not good, his data is really gorgeous, but compared to what he led the team in The Western Conference is still far from reaching the playoffs." Except for the Clippers fans, the comments on reddit are basically one-sided in support of He Yixiang.

"Indeed, not to mention that He's statistics are not bad at all. He averaged 19.4 points, 11.3 assists and 2.7 steals per game, ranking second in assists and leading the season in steals."

"I wouldn't be surprised if he got into the best team. On the contrary, if Griffin grabs an best team among James, Duncan, Garnett, Nowitzki, Durant, and Anthony, I think I can’t believe it, of course, this has a lot to do with the prosperity of the forwards in this league.”

In the end, with the public opinion so boiling, the best rookie was still awarded to He Yixiang. As a draft year, there is also a repeater No. [-] pick, the gold content of this best rookie is quite heavy.

He Yixiang was also a little excited to receive the best rookie trophy. This is already the No. 12 trophy that He Yixiang has won in this rookie season.In addition to losing the Rookie of the Month due to injury in April, he won the Rookie of the Month trophy for the other five months, the Player of the Week three times before, the Player of the Month once, the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, the three-point contest trophy, But this trophy is undoubtedly the most important one.

The Kings have won the best rookie for two consecutive seasons, not to mention that He Yixiang is already a certainty in their eyes, so they just celebrated on a small scale in the forum. He Yixiang has already fed up this group of guys.

But He Yixiang is not only a king player, but also a Chinese player.It is also a very proud thing for China that He Yixiang won the best rookie.That year, Yao Ming, the No. 02 pick in 44, landed in the NBA. It was a happy event for the entire Chinese basketball fans, but he regretted losing to Stoudemire in the competition for the best rookie.When the two played similar numbers, the Suns got 38 wins and 43 losses, and the Rockets got 39 wins and [-] losses. The gap between the playoffs and the lottery zone, and Stoudemire also got the best rookie of the year.

The news that He Yixiang won the best rookie soon spread back to China.The Sports Weekly, Basketball Pioneer, Hupu, Sina and other major basketball-related media reported on this incident immediately, which also aroused the carnival of Chinese basketball fans.

"Well done, He Yixiang, as our new generation in China, is no worse than those American players!" After He Yixiang won the best rookie, the Kings became a strong fan.

"The best rookie is just the beginning. The real highlight is yet to come. For a while, MVP, championship, finals MVP, this is He Yixiang's goal."

Yao Ming, who was recovering from his injury, also sent a text message to He Yixiang to send his blessings: Xiaoxiang, you did a good job. You got what I regretted back then. I believe you will have a better future in the NBA than me.

Not only him, Yi Jianlian who flew back to China yesterday, Cousins ​​and Iguodala who had already gone on vacation, and interviewer Chen Weidong also sent congratulatory messages one by one.Especially Cousins' message: He, you stole my best rookie, and I need at least one best team to repay.

He Yixiang just replied happily: Okay, I'll give you the best team, and I'll get the MVP.

(End of this chapter)