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210. Full of honor

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Chamberlain didn't know what happened to the Jazz players after they came to Oakland. Anyway, when the third game started on April 27, the Jazz players were not very energetic when entering the court. They were in the opposite state when they were on the Utah Plateau. There were a few rookies who were even in a daze. I guess they had not had a good life these days.

No wonder, in Salt Lake City, the Warriors players only have to face fans in one city, while in Oakland, the unlucky Jazz players have to deal with fans in Oakland and San Francisco.

Although Mormons in Salt Lake City have always been known for their madness, Oakland and San Francisco have a larger population and a larger base, so they have many crazy fans.

Chamberlain was not in the mood to ridicule Deron and Boozer because he was notified that before this game, NBA president Stern wanted to award him the Best Defensive Player Award, which was the first important award he received. The Best Defensive Player is not the best rookie in the All-Star. If you can win this award, it will become the target of all teams. There are many offensive players in the league now, but there are fewer and fewer excellent defensive players.

This can be seen from the ranking of the Best Defensive Player Voting List. Chamberlain is undoubtedly no.1, while the second is Kevin Garnett of the Celtics, Marcus Camby, the best defensive player of the season, and the fourth is Sean Bathir, the Rockets' defensive vanguard.

In this ranking, except for Chamberlain, who is a new generation of stars, the other three are veterans who have been with each other for more than ten years in the league. Bathir, the youngest, is also 30 years old!

Chamberlain is the best defensive player of the season, and this is a consensus among everyone on the day of the season's end. You should know that his data this season is extremely dazzling. He is far ahead of the people behind him, whether it is rebounding or blocking: averaged 18.2 points, 17.5 rebounds, 6.5 blocks, 2.5 assists and 1.8 steals per game. This data can be described as more than just dazzling.

Judging from the data, Garnett averaged 18.8 points, 11.2 rebounds, 1.2 blocks and 1.4 steals per game, which is still strong. In addition, in the game against the Bulls on December 13 last year, he sent 7 blocks, which was also the highest season for the Celtics.

But for Chamberlain, his average blocks per game are close to 7!

"This is a monster!" Perhaps one of the most authoritative newspapers in the United States, the New York Times commented on Chamberlain, and another benchmark American media, the Philadelphia Sentinel, reported him: "A super genius who will rule the alliance for at least ten years has arrived!"

"For fans, this is the best time; for players, this is the worst time. This is the new king's rise, this is the hundred schools of thought contend; this is the faith, this is the doubt; this is the bright season, this is the dark season; this is the spring of hope, this is the winter of disappointment; the Warriors fans will get everything, and the fans of other teams will have nothing; the Californians are going straight to heaven; the people from other places are going straight to hell."

The official nba magazine "NBA Slam Dunk" used the above paragraph to praise the Warriors this season, and they deserve this glory.

The NBA Best Defensive Player Award was born in the 1982-1983 season. The award was voted by sports journalists and television commentators in the United States and Canada. Each judge voted for the first place, the second place and the third place player. Players who won each first place vote will get 5 points, the second place vote will get 3 points, and the third place vote will get 1 point, and the player with the highest score will get the award.

In the season's Defensive Player of the Year, there were 124 judges, composed of sports news reporters and broadcasters. Chamberlain scored a total of 605 points, including 110 first votes, Garnett scored a total of 178 points, while Camby scored 105 points, and Bathir was even less.

Chamberlain won this best defensive player as a historic honor, breaking the age record for winning this honor and becoming the youngest best defensive player in history. In addition, as long as he stays healthy, he will be the player with the most honors in league history.

In front of him, Deakinbe Mutombo and Ben Wallace won the award four times, Sydney Moncliff, Mark Eaton, Dennis Rodman, Hakeem Olajuwon and Alonzo Mooning won the award twice, but he is only 19 years old. He has the things that stars value most, youth and time.

Amid the cheers of fans all over the court, Chamberlain took over the bronze trophy symbolizing the best defensive player from Stern. The image of the trophy is Bill Russell's classic bent over defensive image, and the latter is also regarded as the greatest defensive player in NBA history. Even Wilt Chamberlain cannot shake his status.

Standing in the middle of the stadium, when Chamberlain raised the trophy, the entire Oracle Stadium seemed to explode. The excited cheers of fans shook the earth. Chamberlain's No. 0 jersey flew like a battle flag and appeared in every corner of the stadium.

At this moment, Chamberlain was full of energy and his blood was boiling. He waved his hand to signal to all sides, feeling that he had become a king. At this moment, infinite pride emerged in his heart. As unprecedented as he had, he had an idea to rule this league and make all fans surrender to him like this!

Jazz players looked at all with their arms around, their eyes full of envy, jealousy and hatred. They not only envy Chamberlain for winning this award, but this is what the other party deserves. Chamberlain gave a total of 16 big hats in the first two games, completely convinced them.

What they are jealous of the league's attitude towards him. You should know that only MVPs would be released on the stadium before, and other awards were held press conferences, but today Stern personally sent the trophy to the scene. What does this mean? It's very simple. It means that the league should promote Chamberlain as the new generation of image spokesperson for the league.

What interested Chamberlain was that after he received the honor of Best Defensive Player, he not only received a trophy, but also a car, which was provided by the NBA partner Kia. This car is not expensive in the United States, but for the best defensive player, the car is customized. Not only the body height and length have changed, the logo will also be the shape of the best defensive player trophy, which will be of high value.

With the start of the playoffs, some honors for the 2007-08 season also began to be released. The best defensive player was the first, and the next one was the best sixth man.

The sixth man of the season is Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs. West has never competed for Ginobili after all. The main reason is that he came to the Warriors too late. Although his performance in the second part of the game was amazing, the front part and the middle part were too mediocre, and even the front part could be described as a difference.

The candidates participating in the Best Sixth Person selection must ensure that the number of substitutes appears is more than the number of starting games. Like the Best Defensive Player, there are 124 judges, composed of sports news reporters and broadcasters. Each judge will vote according to the first, second and third in his mind. Those who are selected as first score 5 points, those who are selected as second score 3 points, and those who are selected as third can only get 1 point. In this way, the highest score is only 620 points. In the end, Ginobili was elected with an absolute advantage of 615 points, Barbosa, who is ranked second, scored 283 points, and West relied on the second half to win the third place, but the vote was only 44 points.

Ginobili has performed well this season. In 51 of his 74 games, he played as a substitute, and averaged a career-high 19.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.47 steals. Compared with his average of 13.7 points in his career, he averaged nearly 6 points higher than his average of 13.7 points. At the same time, Ginobili is also the only player to contribute 17 points in less than 32 minutes per game.

The awards released together include the Fastest Progress Award and the Sports Ethics Award, the former was won by Tekoglu and the latter was won by Grant Hill.

In the selection of the Fastest Progress Award, Tkoglu scored a total of 380 points, and 61 judges ranked him first. Rudy Guy, the leading player of the Memphis Grizzlies, scored 167 points and 23 first votes. Lamarcus Aldridge of the Portland Trail Blazers, scored 128 points and favored by 9 judges. West was also on the list again, but the unlucky child got 1 point. When he got this result, West was stunned. It would be better not to be on the list.

Tkoglu averaged only 13.3 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.2 assists last season. This season, the Turkish data soared across the board in his eighth year of entering the NBA. He started all over the place in 82 regular season games and averaged 19.5 points per game, an increase of nearly 8 points from his career average, and another 5.7 rebounds and 5.0 assists. In addition, the shooting percentage of 45.6% is also a career high, and it also has a three-point shooting percentage of up to 40% and 82.9% free throw percentage.

The winner of the Sports Ethics and Style Award is Hill. This award is quite funny and is actually named after Joe Dumas. It is used to recognize athletes with excellent sports ethics, fair competition style and honest and honest style.

You should know that Joe Dumas is one of the iconic figures of the Pistons. He is a strong man. Kong Wu is the second-person of the Bad Boy Legion back then. Every time Jordan mentions him, he grits his teeth. This guy is best at using small tricks, but the ball quotient is very high, and reporters and referees can't catch his moves. He is the first person to win this award. It was 1996, and Jordan was also playing. When he learned that Dumas won the award, Jordan, who was drinking water, squirted...

Nowadays, many stars still spray it out every time they think of this award that represents excellent sports ethics and is named after Joe Dumas.

Chamberlain walked off the court with great glory, raised the national flag and played the national anthem, the game was about to begin. Chamberlain's best defensive player was constantly circulated in the hands of several people. Jackson and Barnes were both defensive players, but they had never even touched the farts of this award, and now they can only enjoy their hands.

Chamberlain waved his hand and said heroically: "I will keep this trophy first because this is my first best defensive player and it is memorable. I will give it to Jackson next year and Barnes the next year. Everyone has one, everyone has one!"

Billups smiled and said, "z, if you can do this, I guess the league will change the trophy image and use your defensive posture to create a new trophy."

Chamberlain patted his chest and said, "This is exactly what I pursue!"
Chapter completed!
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