Seven Hundred and Fifty-Three: It's Time for the Awards

On April 28, after 10 days of fierce fighting in the NBA playoffs, two teams that advanced to the second round were finally born.

The two promoted teams did not surprise fans because they were the two biggest title favorites this season.

The Memphis Grizzlies beat the Mavericks 103-89 on the same day, swept the opponent with a total score of 4-0, and advanced to the Western Conference semifinals for the fourth consecutive year! At the same time, for the third year in a row, he advanced with a sweep in the first round of the playoffs. On the east side, the Miami Heat swept the Bobcats of Mr. Joe Joe's 109-98 and successfully advanced.

The Heat and Grizzlies are also the only two teams in the first round of the NBA playoffs this season that can sweep their opponents to advance.

When the other teams were still fighting hard, the two favorites to win the championship easily advanced. Therefore, it is not without reason that they can become the favorites to win the championship.

Next, the Grizzlies have to wait for the winner between the Clippers and the Rockets. The Heat will have to wait for the Raptors and the Nets to decide the winner.

Link is still quite satisfied with the results of the first round. In the original history, the Spurs and the Mavericks played in the tiebreaker, but the Grizzlies took out the opponent in only four games. I have to say that this record is quite gorgeous.

The Mavericks are also unlucky, if they encounter other opponents, maybe they can get a second round. But unfortunately, they encountered the most merciless team.

During the days without games, Jogel first gave the players two days off. After all, the Grizzlies players did not rest during the two days between the regular season and the playoffs. Now, it is considered that the two days of rest have been made up.

Link did not train for the past two days, but stayed at home comfortably for two days. Before the more intense Western Conference semifinals, Link will have to recover as much physical strength as possible.

By the time the Grizzlies get back into practice, it's already May.

Seeing that the Clippers have a 3-2 lead over the Rockets, they are about to advance. Who knows, at this time, the outside world suddenly broke the recording of Clippers owner Sterling involving racial discrimination.

This kind of thing on American soil is undoubtedly a big event beyond the scope of basketball. In the NBA with many black players, Sterling has undoubtedly become the public enemy of the whole people.

This is not the 1970s and 1980s last season, when commentators could even use their skin color to make fun of black players.

A team without a white star has no box office guarantee.

Link only wanted to say one thing to Sterling, "My lord, times have changed."

Therefore, the Clippers players also used actions to condemn Sterling's behavior in the game of the day.

The Clippers players wanted to strike directly, but after Rivers's three-inch tongue flickered, everyone finally decided to participate in the game as usual, but during the warm-up, everyone wore the training uniform instead, and they didn't take the fast pace. The LOGO of the fleet is exposed outside.

This incident eventually affected the Clippers' game status, and it was only one game away from killing the Rockets and advancing to the second round. But the Clippers' collective sleepwalking performance today brought the Rockets back to life.

Harden used the excellent performance of 33 points to "take advantage of the fire" to tie the total score of the series to 3-3!

The Clippers were going to play the Rockets in the tiebreaker, which was something Link did not expect before.

Seeing that the day of the second round was abruptly postponed for a few days, Link sighed.

He didn't feel relaxed after taking such a long break from playing games. Instead, he felt that his body was about to rust, and he couldn't wait to be active.

Fortunately, after the time enters May, it will not be as boring as the end of April. Because from the beginning of May, the league officials will announce the results of the regular season awards one after another.

This melon, whether it is a fan or a player, will be very happy to eat.

One day after the Clippers lost to the Rockets, on May 2, the first regular-season award for Best Coach was finally announced.

Although Dave. Jogel is not very experienced, it is the first time to lead the team to play a full season as a head coach. But with the Grizzlies' terrifying record of 74 wins and the Grizzlies' first defensive efficiency in the league, Joger still defeated strong opponents such as Popovich and won the honor of Coach of the Year!

At the age of 40, he became the best coach in the NBA, and Dave Jogel was instantly labeled as a "genius young coach".

Of course, the fact that a little-known coach won this honor has attracted a lot of controversy.

This year, Popovich, Scott Brooks and others have led the team not bad. In terms of resumes, they seem to be more worthy of the honor of the best coach than Joger. Some people think that Joger has nothing real. If he can win the best coach, he is completely dipped in the team's light!

But whether the outside world is willing to accept it or not, the result of this award will not change.

74 wins is really great, no matter how much the coach played in the 74 wins, even if he just manages the players and can make the team win 74, then he is a good coach!

In the face of doubts, Joger was not too angry, "I thank everyone for their recognition. As for those who do not recognize me, I also hope that future games can make you change your mind."

Jogel is still too gentle, without the momentum of a "gang boss". Link's answer in the interview was obviously much tougher than Jogel.

"If a coach who led his team to the first record in regular season history doesn't deserve the Best Coach Award, then it's better to give this award to critics who talk in different ways. For example, people who like to wear dresses Bill Simmons."

Link is naturally the coach who supports himself. With his temper, he will not be as kind as Joger.

People are very curious, how such a gentle coach, how to control the Grizzlies "gangster" team.

However, Joger has never been in control of the Grizzlies' locker room...

On the first day of the announcement of the NBA regular season awards, there was a big upset. Spurs fans protested en masse, unanimous in their belief that no one could surpass the great Popovich, let alone Joger, the acknowledged junior coach.

But even the "Red Jacket" Auerbach failed to win the Best Coach Award that year. Isn't Auerbach great enough? But the Celtics fans did not protest.

Fortunately, the second day's Best Sixth Man Award was awarded to Jamal Crawford of the Clippers, and he did not continue to upset, which calmed the fans' hearts.

Jamal Crawford is averaging 18.6 points per game this season, ranking sixth in the history of the NBA's best sixth man in scoring. The last best sixth man who averaged more points per game than him was "Jet" Terry in the 2008-09 season.

Therefore, this best sixth man award, Crawford is well deserved.

The fact that Crawford won the award has undoubtedly boosted the morale of the Clippers players. Finally, on May 4, in the tie-break between the Clippers and the Rockets, Crawford, who had just won the award, came off the bench and blasted 28 points in excitement, completely breaking the rocket's propeller, causing the rocket to fall.

4 to 3, the Clippers struggled through the first hurdle through the tiebreaker. The Memphis Grizzlies finally waited for their opponents in the second round.

After the tiebreaker between the Clippers and the Rockets, Chris Paul, who scored 22 points and 14 assists, made his outlook on the second round of the series, "We have the best sixth man, and we have the strongest insider combination. , We have the determination to win the championship! I know that the 74-win Grizzlies are very strong, but we are not afraid of strong enemies, and we are confident to kill the defending champion!"

I don't know if it's because Crawford won the sixth man of the best, Paul seems confident. After the Sterling incident, Crawford's award was like an adrenaline rush to the Clippers.

The Western Conference semifinals between the two sides will start two days later on May 6. During this period, the league will also announce the awards for the Defensive Player of the Year.

If DeAndre Jordan can win this honor, the Los Angeles Clippers are equivalent to installing rocket thrusters on their hulls!

The Clippers, who have the best sixth and best defensive player at the same time, will certainly not be at a psychological disadvantage.

Defensive performance of Jordan this season is obvious to all fans, and he has always been the top five players in the best defensive player prediction list, and the possibility of winning the award is very high.

Unexpectedly, however, the unpopularity happened again. And this time it was the Memphis Grizzlies who created the upset...