The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 608 - 241: LeBron, Who’s Your Daddy!_4

Chapter 608: Chapter 241: LeBron, Who’s Your Daddy!_4

Compared to having home court advantage, whether this team could maintain their health was the more important matter.

As long as the full roster was intact, Rick Carlisle believed that no other team could beat them in the season, not even the Los Angeles Lakers.

Therefore, the Pacers had a smooth April.

They ended their 09-10 season campaign with a record of 63 wins and 19 losses.

The Cavaliers’ record was even better than their original one; Marion’s arrival indeed made the entire lineup lean towards a "One Star and Four Shooters" fast pace. And with Anthony Parker displaying the demeanor of a "champion starting forward" in most games, as well as the subsequent addition of Jamison, the Cavaliers’ roster became even more formidable...

Their final record was 65 wins and 17 losses.

This was a new historical high for the Cavaliers.

But the Clevelanders were not happy.

Because the Lakers ended with a record of 72 wins and 10 losses.

The NBA regular season saw a second team tying the "best record."

Such leading performance was enough to earn Kobe the MVP of this year’s regular season.

Even Bill Walton said, "LeBron really had a good chance to get the regular season MVP this year, it’s just a pity he ran into Kobe and such a Lakers team!"

Another hot topic was the "Monthly Best Player Award" for April, belonging to Derek Rose in the Eastern Conference, and Kevin Durant in the Western Conference!

These two people, one being the ’08 No.1 Pick and the other the ’07 third overall pick, their only intersection before this was being called by Su Wan as "guys who will become regular season MVPs in the future."

Unexpectedly, now they had both won their first "Monthly Best" trophy in their careers.

Derek Rose, in 8 games throughout April, averaged 25.4 points, 4.1 rebounds, 7 assists per game; his shooting percentage was an astonishing 54%, and his free throw percentage was 77.6%.

Under his strong performance, the Bulls managed to squeeze into the playoffs at the last minute.

With a record of 6 wins and 2 losses, they had the best record in the Eastern Conference for April.

Compared to Rose, Kevin Durant’s performance can truly be described as "well-deserved."

Although the Thunder’s record in April was unimpressive, Kevin Durant’s statistics were eye-catching:

He averaged 34.6 points, 7.9 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 2 steals, and 1.6 blocks per game, with a field goal percentage of 47.8%, three-point shooting percentage of 42.6%, and a free throw percentage of 94.6%!

After watching their stunning performances this month, most of the media who had doubts about these two becoming "regular season MVPs" couldn’t help but take a deep breath: ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

Su Wan might really have not been wrong!

Kevin Durant didn’t just win the last "Monthly Best Player Award" of the year.

With the end of the last regular season game, everything was settled.

In his third professional season, Kevin Durant clinched his career’s first "Scoring King" trophy.

The media immediately remembered that Su Wan had said Kevin Durant would become the "Scoring King."

And... it came true again!

The "Assist King" of the season ultimately belonged to Chauncey Billups.

With everyone’s efforts, Billups, in his 13th year in the League, won his first "Assist King" title with an average of 11.2 assists per season.

The "Rebound King" was Howard, "Steal King" was Chris Paul, the "Block King" was Dwight Howard, and the "Turnover King" went to LeBron James, marking the first time in his career that he had won the "Turnover King" title. Formerly always among the top three in turnover list, his turnover rate reached a career-high average of 3.8 per game due to this year’s playing style which centralized his ball-handling responsibilities.

The day after the regular season ended, "Su Wan’s Prediction" was once again proven.

The "Rookie of the Year" for the ’09 class was:

Tyreke Evans!

His average of "20-5-5" stats made him the fifth rookie in NBA history to achieve this.

After he won "Rookie of the Year," the comments Su Wan made about him in "Su Wan’s Predictions" were immediately brought up again: "I am very optimistic about his performance, but the Kings need to be clear about how to use him."

Indeed, Su Wan’s vision was right on the mark; Evans truly performed well.

As a result, the Sacramento media began to worry whether Su Wan’s latter comment would come true.

Additionally, Su Wan’s view that the ’09 class would be a "great draft year" was also confirmed:

The ’09 class rookies had finished their first season; within them, seven players averaged double digits in scoring, and even more – over 15 – averaged more than 8 points.

Especially the guards from this class, most demonstrated strong immediate combat capabilities!

This included Warriors’ Jennings, who scored 55 points in his rookie season. — Stephen Curry couldn’t escape this humiliation.

There was no helping it; Curry’s backcourt partner this season was Chris Duhon, a defensive specialist. When he played against the Lakers, Phil Jackson had called him "the best perimeter defender on the Bulls."

But Duhon was injured in that game, and his substitute was fellow rookie Tony Douglas.

What?

The Knicks have Artest at the wing position too?

Don’t tell me you think the Artest who went to New York is still the most pragmatic "junkyard dog" from his Pacers days alongside Su Wan?

"City Son" Anthony Parker averaged 22.5 points per game in New York this season.

As for the shooting percentage with which he earned those points...