177: Cracks Inside the Defending Champion (4k(2/2)
But the final voting results surprised everyone.
"Wei alone received 61% of the first-place votes, while Emeka Okafor only received 34.1%. The remaining four candidates shared the remaining 5% of the first-place votes. Although Wei was not elected unanimously, Wei
En’s vote rate is also quite terrifying!”
At the press conference, the Pacers' press officer announced the voting data to reporters.
To be honest, Wayne was quite surprised.
He thought that his first-place votes might only account for about 45%.
Under normal circumstances, the first place vote can account for 45%, and you can basically win the award.
As a result, it came directly to 61%.
It's like 6 people competing for 100 tickets. In the end, Wayne got 61 tickets alone, and the rest had to be divided among five people.
We all know how popular Wayne is and how far apart other people are from him.
Okafor's double-double per game was simply buried.
After all, there is no judging criteria for the Rookie of the Year Award. It does not mean that if you can average a double-double per game, you will definitely win the award.
Wayne's exposure and popularity this season are far greater than Okafor's, so it makes sense that he received more votes.
The worst thing is actually not Okafor, his 34% of the votes is already a lot.
The worst one is the champion Happy Beast.
Also averaging a double-double per game, he only accounted for 1.23% of the votes, which is a bit miserable.
A group of high-ranking rookies were defeated by Wayne, the 12th overall pick.
After Okafor saw the results, he found that he was not as discouraged as he thought.
A year ago, he just wanted to fight to the death with Wayne and get back what he lost in college in the NBA.
But since the All-Star Game, Okafor has become convinced of Wayne.
Wayne has shown strength and leadership that even Okafor can be ashamed of.
Moreover, Wayne's behavior of sharing the rookie game MVP with the whole team also made Okafor's hostility towards Wayne less strong.
Therefore, although Okafor was still a little disappointed after losing the election this time, he was not particularly sad.
He had already expected this result.
how to say?
Now, Wayne has escaped the circle of competing with rookies.
Now it's players like Duncan, Garnett, and Rasheed Wallace who have headaches because of Wayne.
Wayne is also competing against players like this.
Okafor Howard?
They are no longer on the same page as Wayne.
Wayne's competition is a level higher than theirs.
When Wayne wants to compete with rookies again, it will be a complete dimensionality reduction attack.
Olajuwon also scored a double-double in his rookie season that year, and his data were an exaggerated 20.6 points, 11.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.2 steals and 2.7 blocks.
The result? Michael Jordan is the Rookie of the Year.
No matter how miserable Okafor is, can he be as miserable as Olajuwon?
So, just accept the facts with peace of mind.
Amid the applause of the crowd, Wayne held up the transparent Rookie of the Year trophy, an honor that can only be obtained once in a lifetime.
In his rookie season alone, Wayne won two personal honors.
This has led many people to include Wayne in the category of "supernova".
To put it bluntly, it is a "superstar reserve".
After receiving the trophy, Wayne was indeed happier than last time.
After all...the best sixth man does not have a 1 million bonus clause, but the best rookie does.
As a guy who enjoyed free pizza from his teammates last Christmas, it would be false to say that Wayne has no feelings for money anymore.
Tony: All you remember is the pizza!
Wayne won the Rookie of the Year award, filling the regrets of Chinese fans.
Because that year, Yao Ming was only 5% of the votes away from being the Rookie of the Year.
But now, Chinese fans no longer have to regret this.
After winning the Rookie of the Year award, Wayne invited his teammates to his house for a night of fun.
Of course, there was no wine or sweets, just getting together to play cards and blow beeps.
Everyone has not forgotten their goals for this year.
The next day, still at Bankers Lifestyle Arena, it was still Pistons VS Pacers.
As soon as today's game started, Wayne realized something was wrong.
From the beginning, Tianzun gave Wayne a big elbow blatantly when he was on defense.
Maybe Tianzun talks a little too much trash and roars a little too loudly.
But in fact, he rarely takes action directly.
To put it bluntly, I'm still a bit timid.
But as soon as I started today, I went straight to the practical stuff!
Wayne doesn't know if this guy took dynamite or something. Are you jealous of me winning the Rookie of the Year award?
Even if I don't take it, you can't take it!
Don’t look at how old you are!
shameless!
But later Wayne discovered that not only Tianzun, but the entire Pistons seemed to be targeting him!
Does that make him a public enemy?
Pushing, elbowing, punching, trash talking...
To be honest, Larry Brown admires Wayne's mental quality.
When a serious rookie encounters this kind of situation, his mentality has already collapsed, and he will probably go back to his mother in tears.
Refer to Milicic, who is sitting on the Pistons bench at this time.
But Wayne has been gritting his teeth and persevering and being patient.
Never did anything out of the ordinary.
But the more this happened, the more blatant the Piston became. He even extended his demonic grasp to others.
Finally, in the middle of the second quarter, when Ben used a very rough collision to knock out the old Payton who was driving for a layup, Wayne rushed in front of Ben and cursed.
Colton suddenly perked up.
If other people are noisy, it's just a joke.
When Wayne goes up there, the nature will be different!
This is the first time in two games that Wayne has personally participated in the brawl!
"Wei appeared in front of Ben Wallace. He stood between Payton and Ben. He seemed to be very dissatisfied with Ben's foul just now!"
Well, Wayne himself was violated so badly in the first quarter that he didn't explode.
This time his teammates suffered a loss, but Wayne exploded.
In some ways, Larry Brown does like Wayne.
It's a pity that they are enemies now!
The guy who was most likely to take action finally came to an end.
People all over the world held their breath.
Only Larry Brown was eager to fight. For the first time in his life, he was so eager to get beaten.
Chapter completed!