The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 545 - 229: Another Hunter is Born!

Chapter 545: Chapter 229: Another Hunter is Born!

With a record of 65 wins and 17 losses, the Pacers ranked second in the entire league.

The first was the Lakers, who ended the season with a record of 67 wins and 15 losses.

The Celtics were originally the second in the Eastern Conference, but this time, they lost three consecutive regular-season games to the Pacers, losing by more than 20 points in each game, leading to their defensive breakdowns and fluctuating performance. As a result, they lost 5-6 more games than originally anticipated, ending up with 55 wins and 27 losses.

They dropped to the fourth position in the Eastern Conference.

The second-place Cavaliers had 60 wins this year.

This height was something LeBron had never before reached with any "Super Star" collaboration, but this year, working with a group of "ordinary players," he managed to do just that.

"ESPN" said, "Clearly, LeBron James has the ability to lead a team on his own, but the fact that he cannot work with other superstars is also evident to all. This was not a problem before, but now it’s a big problem!"

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LeBron’s "single-core" leadership in the playoffs is actually an unknown.

After all, he has yet to prove himself on the playoff stage.

The only time he journeyed to the Eastern Conference Finals, it was universally acknowledged to be on the coattails of Shaquille O’Neal.

The New York Times went off the beaten path saying, "LeBron should be thankful he was born in Akron, if he were in New York, where there are more high-school prodigies, he might not have become the ’Chosen One’!"

This also pointed out the issue of LeBron James’s inability to coexist peacefully with "Super Star" players.

At the same time, it sneered...

LeBron is just a small-town mutt!

Faced with these doubts, LeBron’s response was, "Before this season started, no media believed we could achieve 60 wins, but we did it!"

The Cleveland media crazily hyped him up, believing he should win this year’s regular-season MVP.

But that was only the Cleveland media’s opinion.

The final encounter of this season between the Cavaliers and the Pacers, in many media’s view, was the battle for this year’s regular-season MVP. The result was that the Pacers played their only victory with a margin of more than 10 points against the Cavaliers this season and also limited LeBron to just 18 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, and 5 turnovers.

These stats were far from his season average.

Cleveland media, as usual, pretended to forget and deliberately avoided discussing this game.

But in fact, many media outlets said after that game, "The battle for this year’s regular-season MVP is over!"

LeBron’s leading a "civilian team" to 60 wins in the regular season is indeed great, but equally, Su Wan, with a "time bomb" strapped to him, still managed to bring the Pacers back to the number one position in the Eastern conference – that’s not something easily done either.

Moreover, Su Wan definitely brought a sense of surprise to the media this season.

He was the absolute core of the Pacers’ defensive end and the hot favorite for the Best Defensive Player Award.

This is another testament to his contention for the regular-season MVP.

In a situation where both men had enough reasons to win the regular-season MVP, their matchup became especially important, and ultimately it was Su Wan who came out victorious.

However, the Cleveland media was unimpressed.

Because they felt that Su Wan also lost to the Mavericks that year, but didn’t he still win the regular-season MVP?

So one regular-season game doesn’t represent anything.

Well...

They once again overlooked that although Su Wan lost the game that year, his "Super God Show" in the last quarter completely subjugated everyone on the Mavericks.

LeBron’s performance, on the contrary, was not only not "super god," but rather "super ghost"!

The Hawks managed to reach the fifth position in the Eastern Conference mainly because Wade was injured in the last seven games. Although this did not affect his chances of winning the "Scoring King" title with an average of 30.5 points per game, the Heat won only 2 out of 7 games without him, and they are expected to stop at the first round this year.

There’s not much to say about the seventh-placed Detroit and eighth-placed Chicago.

People climbing the mountain, and those descending.

The number one in the Western Conference was the Lakers, followed by the Nuggets, Spurs, Blazers, Mavericks, Jazz Team, Hornets, and the Phoenix Suns.

The Nuggets did not acquire Chauncey Billups this time, but in the transaction with the Warriors, they got Baron Davis. Combined with a more energetic front line, and the "championship experience" that Foster brought to the team, they still ended up as the number two team in the West.

Carmelo Anthony also earned the nickname of "ripe melon that fell off the vine."

Other teams, nothing much to say; they basically maintained their original rankings.

This season, the Rockets, originally fifth in the Western Conference, did not make the playoffs...

The Houston media must miss Yao Ming especially now!

But sadly, the more they miss Yao Ming, the better of a time he’s having in Los Angeles.

Not to mention the commercials, which he’s truly getting too many to handle.

Los Angeles’ wealthy advertisers are indeed too numerous.

The day after the regular season ended, the League announced this season’s "Rookie of the Year," and Derek Rose won the award almost undisputedly with a 53.13% vote share.

The "08 class" had many ready-to-play players, with as many as 10 rookies scoring in double digits on average.

Although Derek Rose did not have the highest scoring average, he still won the award.