The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 451 - 210: So Bad Even the Boss Couldn’t Stand It_2

Chapter 451: Chapter 210: So Bad Even the Boss Couldn’t Stand It_2

On December 1, the League announced the "Monthly Best Player Award" for November.

There was a rumor that if the Cavaliers hadn’t lost two more games at the end of the month, the "Monthly Best" for the Eastern Conference’s first month would have been LeBron James, who had the highest score.

After all, apart from averaging 30 points per game, he also had 8 rebounds and 8 assists.

The stats were simply explosive.

But because of those two losses at the end of the month, the Cavaliers fell out of the top four, finishing with 10 wins and 4 losses, far behind the Pacers, and ultimately, the award went to Su Wan.

Originally, winning the award was a very cool thing. Seeing these rumors saying the award was supposed to belong to LeBron but was snatched away by him made Su Wan feel even cooler!

He also discovered something very interesting...

The top five teams in the Eastern Conference were:

Indiana Pacers;

Boston Celtics;

Orlando Magic;

Detroit Pistons;

...

Then came the fifth-placed Cavaliers.

Honestly.

Just looking at the names of the top three teams in the Eastern Conference, Su Wan felt like playing the background music from when LeBron released Pei En.

The pressure was just too...

Not to mention LeBron, if Su Wan were LeBron, he would have immediately grabbed a bucket and run, quickly swimming to the South Coast.

These teams were just too much of a restraint on him!

Not grouping up, what was our Old Zhan supposed to do!

If LeBron originally had even a 0.01% chance of making it to the finals with the Cavaliers, now...

If he didn’t band together, he’d definitely rot in Cleveland.

The "Monthly Best" in the Western was Kobe Bryant, with an average of 25.4 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, and 1.5 steals per game, with a shooting percentage of 48.5%.

The "Black Mamba" this season was truly a tycoon.

With Paul Gasol on his left hand and Yao Ming on his right.

After some adjustments at the beginning of the season, the Lakers, starting with 1 win and 2 losses, went on a 11-game winning streak, leading the Western Conference and pulling ahead of the Spurs by two games.

Given this situation, even though David Stern had higher expectations for Kobe due to the external pressure from the Eagle County incident, they had to give "Monthly Best" to Kobe. The Los Angeles media promptly declared, "Kobe should be this season’s Regular Season MVP."

Then, various experts came out in support of Kobe.

Originally, this season’s Regular Season MVP was supposed to be Kobe’s, but there was considerable controversy, with many media thinking that if it weren’t for seniority issues, this season’s Regular Season MVP should have been Chris Paul.

"Chris Pao" primarily lost out due to his lack of seniority.

This had some rationale.

Originally this season, under the leadership of Chris Paul, the Hornets had the second-best record in the Western. And Paul delivered the strongest season of his career, averaging 21.1 points, 11.6 assists, and 2.7 steals.

However, this time it should be hard to cause any controversy, with Paul Gasol and Yao Ming, Kobe could at least achieve 70 wins this season...

Just this record alone should be enough for him to secure the Regular Season MVP!

After all, in the history of the Lakers, there had never been a single season with 70 wins.

If they couldn’t achieve 70 wins...

Then Kobe might as well retire!

Originally, the combination of Kobe, Paul Gasol, Bynum, and Odom could achieve 65 wins.

Now replacing Bynum and Odom with Yao Ming, and you’re telling me they can’t win 5 more games?

Then it would be a real waste of such a synergistic "trio."

Su Wan wasn’t paying too much attention to this issue; he was very clear that this season’s Regular Season MVP probably had nothing to do with him.

He was studying the opponent for the first game in December.

Not anyone else, but the renowned future "Death God," Kevin Durant!

The SuperSonic Team’s coach for this season was named P.J. Carlesimo.

Yes, the same coach who had the "Madman" perform a Locking Throat.

Many fans didn’t know his background.

Actually, he was also a seasoned coach in the NBA and... incredibly high-level!

In ’92, the United States assembled the "Dream Team."

The head coach was Chuck Daly.

The coaching staff included Duke’s "Old K," and then equally prominent in the NCAA was Carlesimo.

His rise to fame was somewhat like the future "Young Commander" Stevens, leading a lesser-known school team into the NCAA finals and winning the championship, gaining fame in one fell swoop.

He was a coach whose fame preceded the "Old K" era.

For this reason, he embodied many common traits of NCAA coaches:

He loved to develop new players!

Kevin Durant’s strengths in shooting and weaknesses in attacking the basket were noticed by him; thus, he boldly placed Kevin Durant in the two.

Yes, you read that right, "Little Handsome" in his rookie season wasn’t playing as a small forward or power forward but as a shooting guard.

It’s the NCAA coaches who dare to think and do!

So, Su Wan ended up being directly matched up against Kevin Durant.

Tonight, he must give a warm welcome to this future "Death God."

Meanwhile, Kevin Durant was browsing online news reports about the Pacers and the SuperSonic Team game.

He wanted to see how netizens rated his first matchup against Su Wan.

Well, mainly to find out if any netizen believed he could perform well against Su Wan. The result:

"Is Kevin Durant that tall guy during the joint training who couldn’t even do one bench press? How is he supposed to play against Su Wan?"

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