After the first round of the series, Wayne's performance can be said to be astonishing.

Weber, a giant, must be said to be really tall.

Wayne stood up and instantly had a panoramic view of the mountains.

Now, there is no rookie in the 2004 class who can compare with Wayne.

He averaged 27 points per game in the playoffs. Are you kidding me?

Although everyone knows that Wayne's 27 points, not to mention more, at least one-third of the credit belongs to Webber.

But this is still awesome. If you put Okafor against Webber, will he definitely be able to average 20 points per game?

Now, many people no longer even regard Wayne as a rookie.

Therefore, on May 1, when the NBA officially announced the final winner of the Best Sixth Man, Ben Gordon told himself: "I have nothing to say after losing to Wei."

"Wei, we will hold a press conference in the afternoon to award you an award. Congratulations, this is the first regular season award in your career!" During training at noon, Bird informed Wayne of his award.

Bird thought Wayne would be very excited, but unexpectedly, Wayne just smiled and nodded gently: "Okay."

"You are the first player in NBA history to win the Sixth Man of the Year award in his rookie season." Seeing this, Bird continued.

Look, you and I are pretending to be serious again.

However, Wayne remained calm: "Really? That's really great."

"Uh... see you in the afternoon, Wei."

Bird wanted to say to Wayne sincerely, "Keep working hard, you will be as good as me."

How could Bird let this opportunity pass?

However, Wayne just didn't give Bird any room to perform!

Big B is so angry.

Wayne watched Bird leave in disappointment, a little confused.

I won the Sixth Man of the Year award and you are so disappointed!

Wayne really wasn't very excited.

Before the playoffs started, Wayne actually didn't think he could win the Sixth Man of the Year award.

Because he feels that he should start more times than come off the bench.

Who knew it was almost half and half.

Therefore, when Wayne was eligible to be selected, he actually knew that he would definitely win the award.

This is really not because Wayne is arrogant, but because other people really don’t appreciate him enough!

Among several competitors for this year's Sixth Man of the Year award, Gordon averaged 15 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists per game.

"Assistant King" Ricky Davis averaged 16 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists per game.

Denver's strongest 165 Boykins averaged 12 points and 4.5 assists per game.

Compared with Wayne's 17.8 points, 7.3 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.5 blocks, their data are far behind.

Although Wayne plays the most minutes among them, averaging 35.5 minutes per game, and also starts the most games, it is normal for his data to be better than them.

But rules are rules. Since Wayne complies with the selection rules and his data is so much better than others, there will definitely be no problem in being elected.

Therefore, after learning that he was eligible to participate in the election, Hao said without any pretense that Wayne already knew that he would win the award.

This damn self-confidence has nowhere to put it.

Now that he was informed of the award, Wayne just felt it was natural.

After the afternoon training, the Pacers held a brief award ceremony for Wayne at the press conference.

Since the NBA currently does not have something as grand as an annual awards ceremony, the regular season awards are either held before the start of the game, or at a press conference if there is no game.

Under the gaze of many reporters, Bird handed the Sixth Man of the Year trophy to Wayne.

Wayne received the trophy. Although he was not that excited, he was indeed very happy.

Being able to win a regular season award in the first year after entering the NBA is a kind of recognition of one's own strength.

Moreover, it also fills the gap for Chinese players in NBA regular season awards.

Yao Ming, who plays World of Warcraft during the day and continues to play World of Warcraft at night, has not won any individual awards, not even the Best of the Month, although he has been selected to the All-Star and All-NBA Teams many times.

Wayne is the first Chinese player to win a regular season award in the NBA.

After Wayne lifted the trophy, Miller, Wu Sheng, 91 Tai, Payton and O'Brien all came together to take a photo with Wayne.

The six heroes from Yincheng look like champions this year.

Subsequently, the press conference officially began.

Bird made a joke with reporters as soon as he came up: "When we traded Harrington, the second best sixth man of the year, for Way last summer, many people said I was crazy.

As a result, we now have another Sixth Man of the Year. Facts have proved that at least I did not lose."

Donnie Walsh: Oh, I know you meant it to me, next one!

"Wei, as the first player in history to win the Sixth Man of the Year award in his rookie year, how do you feel now?"

"Well...Magic even won the FMVP in his rookie year. So, I won't be complacent. In the next games, I will continue to work hard with the team.

Thank you Bird, thank you to my teammates, thank you to my parents, thank you to CCTV, thank you to Barkley, thank you to my girl Sharapova, thank you to sister Jenny..."

After that, Wayne gave a very skillful Chinese-style acceptance speech - Thank you Dafa!

"Wei, although you won first place with 45.6% of the votes, it also means that more than 50% of people think you are not worthy of the Best Sixth Man Award.

Most people believe that your role with the Pacers was not a sixth man role at all.

Gordon has only started 3 times this season, Boykins has only 5 starts, and even Ricky Davis has only started 11 times.

And you have started more than 30 times this season. Do you think you are qualified?"

The second reporter started to get angry, but Aunt Jenny was prepared.

"Aaron McGee, the best sixth man in the 2000-01 season, started 33 times, and Ricky Pierce, the best sixth man in the 1986-87 season, started 31 times. The first best sixth man in NBA history was Kevin McGee.

Vin McHale started 31 times that season.

If they can do it, what am I not up to?"

"This..." The reporters really didn't expect that Wayne actually knew these data!

Don’t you know? Yesterday, I had a make-up class with Aunt Jenny overnight.

"Besides, now that the trophy is in my hands, I don't care what the other 50% think.

Their opinions are meaningless. Whether they are happy or not, I am the best sixth man, and I am proud of it."

With a smile on his face, Wayne scolded the reporters who were preparing to cause trouble without using any harsh words.

He is worthy of being a famous cross talk master in Greater China.

At every press conference, reporters want to take the upper hand and take the initiative.

But every time, Wayne would push him to the ground and rub him.

The only person who can make Wayne willingly take the lower position is probably a well-known female tennis player.

Holding the Sixth Man of the Year award, Wayne returned to the locker room.

Of course, he knows that this will most likely not be the last regular season award he gets this year.

In a few days, the results of the Best Rookie Award will be announced.

Wayne felt that he was likely to start a new round of war of words with reporters.

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Since the first round of the series, the Eastern Conference has basically had a three-legged situation.

The Heat swept the Nets 4-0, the Pistons swept the Wizards 4-0, and the Pacers swept the 76ers 4-0.

Except for the inextricable battle between the Celtics and Bulls, the other three rounds were all swept.

This can be said to be quite rare in NBA history.

This is the first time this has happened since the NBA changed the first round of the playoffs to a best-of-7 series.

Therefore, fans are full of expectations for the showdown between the Heat, Pacers and Pistons.

Now, the Pistons and Pacers are ready, and just waiting for the Celtics and Bulls to finish, these old enemies will meet again!

Prior to that, NBA officials had successively announced the final selection results of multiple regular season awards.

After Wayne's Sixth Man of the Year award, the Pistons also received good news, because Ben won this year's Defensive Player of the Year award.

For the Pistons, this is undoubtedly a morale booster.

Local newspapers in Detroit also ran headlines like this: "The best sixth man will be completely lost in front of the best defensive player."

Artest is so indignant, is there a better defensive player than me in this world?
To be continued...