bayedsolid Chapter 463 The Regular Season Award Harvester!
Chapter 463 The Regular Season Award Harvester!
这个赛季的恩比德常规赛出战66场，场均可以砍下33.1分和10.2个篮板，还有4.2个助攻和1个抢断，1.7个封盖。
His 33.1 points also made him the top scorer this season.
Jokic is second in the MVP rankings. This season he played 69 games, averaging 24.5 points, 11.8 rebounds and 9.8 assists per game.
The third is Giannis Antetokounmpo, who has played 63 games, averaging 31.1 points, 11.8 rebounds, and 5.7 assists per game.
Wang Xiucheng ranked fourth.
Wang Xiucheng played 76 games in the regular season, making him the player with the most appearances on the list.
During the regular season, Wang Xiucheng averaged 30.7 points, 11.2 assists, and 2.5 steals per game.
The players ranked fifth through tenth are Jayson Tatum, Luka Doncic, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Kevin Durant, Domantas Sabonis, and Devin Booker.
Then there's this season's DPOY, Jaren Jackson Jr. of the Grizzlies.
The best sixth man belongs to Brogdon of the Celtics.
Coach of the Year belongs to Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown.
Orlando Benjamin Butler, the Orlando Magic's number one draft pick, was named Rookie of the Year.
The last two individual awards both belonged to Wang Xiucheng.
First and foremost is the Most Improved Player of the Year, which belongs to Wang Xiucheng of the Brooklyn Nets.
Last year, during his rookie season with the Rockets, Wang Xiucheng played 66 games, averaging 13.5 points, 8.7 assists, and 1.7 steals per game.
After Wang Xiucheng transferred to the Nets this season, his stats improved significantly to 30.7 points, 11.2 assists, and 2.5 steals.
This is why Wang Xiucheng entered the fourth position on the MVP list after only two years of competition.
The final individual award, NBA Clutch Player of the Year, also went to Wang Xiucheng.
It would be a miracle if Wang Xiucheng, the inventor of "Wang's Time," were to lose this award.
Besides these awards that need to be selected, some lists were actually finalized at the end of the regular season.
For example, the scoring leaderboard, assist leaderboard, steal leaderboard, and block leaderboard.
Joel Embiid is currently the top scorer.
Wang Xiucheng once again topped both the assist and steal leaderboards.
Wang Xiucheng averaged 11.2 assists per game, surpassing Harden's 10.7 assists, Trae Young's 10.2 assists, and Jokic's 9.8 assists.
Nine of the top ten on this list are guards, with Jokic being the only exception, which shows just how incredibly strong he is.
On the steals leaderboard, Wang Xiucheng also ranks first with 2.5 steals, ahead of Butler and Arnoldi, who are in second place with 1.6 steals each.
A lead of almost one steal per game is equivalent to a gap in play.
Wang Xiucheng once again explained why he is the youngest player on the MVP list.
Besides these individual awards, Wang Xiucheng is also associated with the All-NBA First Team.
Embiid, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Jayson Tatum, and Wang Xiucheng were selected to the All-NBA First Team.
Furthermore, all five players averaged over 30 points per game, marking only the second time in NBA history that this has happened.
The last time this happened was back in the ancient 1961-1962 season.
At that time, Wilt Chamberlain, the legendary figure from ancient times, was included on the list with an average of 50 points per game.
Shortly after the list was released, each team's official website posted posters of their winning players.
The Nets were naturally the most proactive; in fact, their PR department had already created the posters and was just waiting for the official release.
So less than ten minutes after the NBA league office released the information, the Nets' official website published as many as six award posters in both English and Chinese.
"Congratulations to Wang Xiucheng for ranking fourth in the regular season MVP list."
"Congratulations to Wang Xiucheng on winning the Most Improved Player award for the season."
"Congratulations to Wang Xiucheng for winning the Best Clutch Player of the Season award."
"Congratulations to Wang Xiucheng for being the top assist provider of the season."
"Congratulations to Wang Xiucheng for being the top stealer of the season."
"Congratulations to Wang Xiucheng for making the All-NBA First Team of the season."
The Nets' PR team used six different posters featuring Wang Xiucheng in six different signature poses.
There are pictures of Wang Xiucheng's elegant dunks, his joint-reversed dunk in the dunk contest, his 3.5-meter dunk, and of course, the picture of Wang Xiucheng sitting on the top of the backboard.
Furthermore, there was a line of text at the bottom of each of the posters.
"Wang Xiucheng broke Arenas' record of 21 years old and became the youngest recipient of the award."
"Wang Xiucheng surpassed Oscar Robertson to become the youngest regular season assist leader."
"Wang Xiucheng surpassed Magic Johnson to become the youngest regular season steals leader."
"Wang Xiucheng surpassed Kobe's 21 years old to become the youngest player to be selected for the All-NBA First Team in the regular season."
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At the age of 20, Wang Xiucheng has significantly broken the record for the oldest recipient of these awards.
It's fair to say that Wang Xiucheng, who is just 20 years old, is a complete award-winning machine, at least this season!
This level of exaggeration is even more dazzling than when Embiid won his first MVP award.
Looking at these incredibly impactful posters, Wang Xiucheng grinned.
Anyway, apart from Wang Xiucheng himself feeling embarrassed, everyone else seemed quite excited watching it.
This has made fans even more excited for the Eastern Conference Finals.
Especially considering the Nets' opponent is the Philadelphia 76ers, who have Embiid and Harden.
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Finally, the 16th arrived, and the Western Conference Finals began.
The Nuggets, playing at home, defeated the Lakers 132-126.
A day later, the Nets' home game against the 76ers finally began as scheduled.
As soon as Wang Xiucheng appeared on the field to warm up, enthusiastic cheers erupted from the crowd.
Although the match was still a while away, the fans arrived very early today.
Just like in the previous series, the Nets gave out white T-shirts at today's home game.
So from Wang Xiucheng's position, the scene was all white, and staring at it was even a bit dazzling.
Fortunately, most of the lights in these fan zones will be turned off after the game starts.
Wang Xiucheng put down the basketball in his hand, went to the sidelines, and began to shake hands with the people there.
Today marks the Nets' first Eastern Conference Finals appearance in 20 years, so the Nets officially invited some legends from the Eastern Conference Finals 20 years ago.
Jason Kidd, Kenyon Martin, Jefferson, and Collins all stood up at this moment.
Jason Kidd is here today as a Nets legend, so he shouldn't have any connection with the Mavericks.
But right behind Jason Kidd, Doncic, who was sitting there, also stood up along with the other four.
Wang Xiucheng shook hands with each of them, and finally hugged Doncic.
"Take them down," Doncic said.
"Of course," Wang Xiucheng replied with a smile.
Neither of them mentioned Philadelphia by name, but they were referring to the Nets' opponent tonight, the Philadelphia 76ers.
Wang Xiucheng suddenly remembered something: the 23rd annual talent show lottery was held today.
It's just that the Nets didn't have any first-round picks this year; they all went to the Rockets when they traded for Harden, so Nets fans and management didn't pay much attention to it.
Fortunately, the Nets finished third in the regular season this year, so the first-round pick that went to the Rockets was the 28th pick, which isn't very valuable.
This year, the Mavericks deliberately tanked in the final moments of the regular season, plunging all the way out of the play-in zone and managing to retain their top-ten first-round pick.
Wang Xiucheng felt that he might be able to squeeze some money out of the Mavericks during the draft.
Thinking of this, Wang Xiucheng couldn't help but laugh.
Seeing Wang Xiucheng laugh, Doncic inexplicably started laughing too.
Seeing Doncic smile, Wang Xiucheng smiled even more heartily.