The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 261 - 162: Is the First Player to Win Four MVPs in a Single Season About to Emerge?

Chapter 261: Chapter 162: Is the First Player to Win Four MVPs in a Single Season About to Emerge?

Stan Van Gundy was not reconciled to his dismissal, but he had to face the fact that under the leadership of Pat Riley, the Miami Heat had gradually become powerful. Sometimes, he simply couldn’t deny it, Van Gundy just wasn’t as good as Pat Riley.

The powerful Miami Heat made the Miami media and fans excited once again.

After defeating the defending champions, the Miami media confidently declared, "The Heat have booked the championship!"

The Heat’s fans also believed that Pat Riley’s return was the right, timely, and effective change.

As for Stan Van Gundy, he had long been forgotten on the sidelines.

Erin brought the excited slogans of the Miami media to Su Wan and asked him a question, "If you had to choose, Su, would you want this year’s regular season MVP or the championship?"

Su Wan looked puzzled, "Is there even a need to think about it?"

Erin: "The championship?"

Su Wan confidently said, "Only kids make choices, I want them all!"

Erin: "..."

She really wanted to ask, "Then why don’t you just want me too?"

But having interviewed Su Wan for nearly two years, she knew what he would say:

"Sorry, Erin, you are not one of the options."

Damn, dog of a man!

Losing a game wasn’t a big deal for the Pacers, even though their opponent was one of the main contenders in the playoffs, the Miami Heat. After all, it was just a regular-season game! To use the words of the greats, "Disrespect your opponents tactically, but respect them strategically."

The team’s morale wasn’t affected at all, and before the All-Star break, they achieved a record of 5 wins and 2 losses.

On February 13th, Su Wan, along with O’Neal and the All-Star reserve Artest, Calderon participating in the Three-Point Shooting Contest, and Dior participating in the Skills Challenge, set off for Houston.

In fact, Calderon and Dior originally didn’t have the fame to participate in the "big three challenges," but this season they had made a name for themselves in the Pacers. Even if the statistics didn’t show it—Dior was now averaging 7.4 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 4.6 assists per game, and Calderon 8 points, 2 rebounds, and 3.4 assists—their fame had absolutely been established, so when they announced their participation in this year’s Skills Challenge and Three-Point Shooting Contest, the league did not hesitate to put them on the list.

The league also invited Su Wan to join the Dunk Contest, but Su Wan refused. He wasn’t in "the zone" and many moves he wanted to perform just weren’t possible. Since he couldn’t save the Dunk Contest, he might as well enjoy being a spectator.

LeBron had been wavering between "participating" and "not participating" for the same reason.

But he was torn, wanting to increase his fame through the Dunk Contest and hoping to leave a stunning highlight. He was a guy who wanted it all.

On the other hand, he was worried about underperforming in the Dunk Contest, failing to leave a classic scene, and instead, ending up with ridiculous footage, thereby wasting his athletic potential. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

Plainly put, he was too concerned with preserving his own image.

However, the reality was that Jordan had left classic moments in the Three-Point Shooting Contest and it didn’t affect his reputation as the God of Basketball. For those who claimed he couldn’t make three-point shots, one could simply show Jordan’s three-point stats from the finals as proof.

Most importantly, Michael Jordan had a less than 30% three-point shot success rate, but opponents still wouldn’t dare let him shoot freely, just as Stephen Curry, even if he missed all nine shots in a game, when he prepared to take another three-point shot, he would still cause great anxiety among his opponents. Meanwhile, some players with decent career three-point percentages are consistently allowed by others to shoot threes.

Data, sometimes, is just data!

It has value for reference, but that’s all it is.

If someone was standing at the three-point line next to Michael Jordan, who do you think the opponents would choose to guard.

Su Wan was not torn, he was very clear about his limits, thus he directly stated he was not Vince Carter and didn’t have the ability to save the Dunk Contest.

This sudden praise wasn’t to get Vince Carter to feed him the ball in the All-Star game~

It was simply a spur-of-the-moment tribute!

Houston is one of the top 5 big cities in the United States.

Johnson Space Center is here, which is the namesake of the Rockets.

Additionally, there are many finance-related industries, energy research industries, and biotechnology research institutions here.

Therefore, this is a city of white-collar elites who normally prefer upscale arts like theater, opera, and ballet for leisure, and only occasionally swing by the stadium to cheer.

However, with this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend taking place, a more sporty atmosphere pervaded throughout the city’s streets and alleys, especially near Toyota Center.

When Su Wan and his group arrived at the hotel, the Rockets had just finished an away game yesterday and had only returned to Houston at dawn, so Yao might still be resting and had not contacted Su Wan. Su Wan hadn’t reached out either.

He wandered around the hotel with Artest and others.

Of course, followed by seven or eight bodyguards.

Just at the beginning of February, he had bombarded the whole Houston, and he had no idea how the city’s media might try to slander him this time. Fans naturally followed the media’s lead, so for the sake of preventing any idiot from inviting him for a "Jiang Xiaobai," it was better to be safe.