Anthony the Reborn

Chapter 195 The biggest prize in the regular season
After returning from Brand's home, Anthony and Nene parted ways, and he drove to his home with Daphne.

After driving for a while, Daphne suddenly turned her head and said, "Brother, I have something to tell you."

"Ah?" Anthony turned his head and glanced at Daphne, and found that her face was slightly red. He turned his head and continued to look at the road, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I..." Daphne said shyly, "I fell in love with someone."

"Ah?!" Anthony slammed the brakes, and the car stopped with a long brake mark. He turned his head in shock and asked, "My little sister, are you going to tell me that you like Did you fall into the guy who saved you just now?"

The guy Anthony was talking about was naturally a big-hearted guy, but he saved Daphne's Nene.

"Where are you going, brother!" Daphne looked at Anthony complaining, "I'm not the little girl I used to be!"

"Hehe..." Anthony scratched his head shyly when he heard that it wasn't Nene. Although the hero saving the beauty is often played in movies, it's just a movie. He then asked, "It's not that guy, then you and Brother, tell me, which lucky guy has captured the heart of my little sister?"

Listening to the way Anthony spoke, Daphne's face blushed suddenly, and then she couldn't help saying shyly: "You know it, Kenny."

"Kenny?" Anthony was taken aback when he heard the name, and then immediately searched for this person in his memory. This person is very familiar to Anthony, because he was Carmelo Anthony's best playmate when he was a child. One of them, Kenny Mina, had frequent contacts between the two when they were playing in college, but after entering the NBA, on the one hand, it was because Anthony was no longer the former Cameron, and on the other hand, it was because He put his heart and soul into the game, so he had fewer contacts, but in his impression, Mina is a very nice person, very gentleman, and he should be working on Wall Street now. Compared with Nene, who is big and thick, That's a really good attribution.

"Kenny is a nice guy." Anthony finally said.

"Hey, I knew you would agree, brother." Daphne already knew Anthony's attitude when she heard Anthony's tone of voice, so she couldn't be happier at the moment.

"This kid, I haven't contacted for a long time. I haven't seen him come to me. I will definitely punish him when I turn back." Anthony said half-jokingly. To tell the truth, he liked such a younger sister after time travel. This is the only thing he can do. It's really a little bit reluctant to find someone to entrust with family affection.

It's just that the younger sister always wants to get married, so whose family doesn't?Thinking of this, Anthony Ye could only shake his head bitterly, and then drove to the villa.

Daphne stayed in Anthony's villa for two days, during which Fox came back, and the two women met as if they were old friends as soon as they met, and they stuck together almost all day, shopping and beauty, directly leaving Anthony alone It was left alone, but Anthony was not free either. Because of Brand's injury, the team now needs to make urgent adjustments, so he happened to go to the arena to retrain with his teammates.

Due to team injuries, the Nuggets temporarily signed a free agent from the free market. This time, Anthony didn't know it, but when he came to the arena, he was also shocked by the man in front of him, because the new The player who joined was actually Battelle!
Anthony suddenly felt speechless, but it didn't take long before he was relieved. Battelle's joining now seems to be reasonable. First, Battelle played for the Nuggets during the 01-02 season. Secondly, he He was waived by the Raptors in January this year, and is now in a state of unemployment. Finally, and most importantly, the team has tasted the sweetness from Wang Zhizhi, and they are willing to use this small investment to channel Chinese players. body.

And Battelle has a big body, which is a pretty good addition to the team.

For Battelle's joining, Anthony is naturally also happy. As China's Bashen, although he won a championship with the Spurs at the beginning of his career, he still failed to gain a firm foothold in the NBA. Wang Zhizhi's fate was changed. , I don’t know if Battelle can do it.

However, unlike Wang Zhizhi, Battelle's style of play is a traditional center type. This is an area that Anthony rarely comes into contact with. He can't teach Battelle like he taught Wang Zhizhi. How much success he can achieve depends on Battelle's own.

After a day of intense training, Battelle also showed a good defensive ability in training, which satisfied the members of the coaching staff. After the training, D'Antoni went to the locker room in advance to announce the starting lineup for the next game , Mutombo will start instead of Brand, and Nene will return to the position of power forward.

In fact, from the team's move to sign Battelle, we have already seen the formation of D'Antoni.

After D'Antoni left, Anthony comforted the frustrated Wang Zhizhi, and then took him and Battelle out for a meal. In a foreign country, Anthony, a Chinese man wearing a Carmelo Anthony vest, and two other The Chinese got together once, although he was the only one who knew about it.

The next morning, the team flew to Utah for the second away game.

Because it was the last game, the Jazz launched a very big counterattack. However, after Anthony and his Nuggets had the experience of the previous game, they overcame the altitude sickness through formations. Although they lost Brand, they Anthony's strong performance still allowed them to grasp the initiative on the field from beginning to end, and Mutombo, who started as a substitute for Brand, also played well against the young Osterotta, killing the opponent to death. Perhaps because he was not able to start, Wang Zhizhi also had a very strong desire to take shots in this game, and his hit rate was also very good.

The most important thing is that without Leonard, the Jazz lacked the most stable scoring points outside the three-point line. Their offense was very small, and the pressure on the Nuggets' defense was much less than before.

In the end, the Nuggets beat their opponents by 20 points. Anthony's performance was still unstoppable. He scored a game-high 30 points, 36 rebounds and 8 assists in only 6 minutes of the game. Mutombo also performed well. He contributed 8 points, 15 rebounds and 4 blocked shots throughout the game, successfully making up for Brand's loss on the defensive end, while Wang Zhizhi's performance was completely explosive. He made 5 of 3 three-pointers and finally scored 26 points. 26 points are also a new high in his career. This makes Anthony very suspicious of D'Antoni's refusal to let Wang Zhizhi start.

As for the newly joined Battelle, he is still a bit unfamiliar with the team. He played a lot of time, nearly 20 minutes, but fouled 4 times. In terms of statistics, except for 3 rebounds, the others are duck eggs, but he is used to adapting to the team. The team still has some time to go.

In the end, the Nuggets beat their opponents. While the Devils won two consecutive victories at home, they also swept the Jazz with a total score of 4:0, thus advancing to the second round.

Because the first round of the game is not yet over, the Nuggets ushered in a rare rest time, but the team only gave the players two days off. Because of Brand's absence, the team seemed to have a relaxed time. In the first round, but in fact, their opponent, the Spurs also swept the Mavericks 4:0.

What's more interesting is that the Mavericks also played running and bombing. The Mavericks with the Trident failed to win even one victory in the hands of the defending champions. This also made the Mavericks' management question the team. The diametrically opposite result also made them start to reflect on the team's defense. Originally, the team's owner Cuban just wanted to introduce Dampier, but now he is obviously more sure of his idea.

Of course, all of this is a small episode in the playoffs.

Not long after the end of the first round, because the Heat and Hornets in the East were still inseparable, the league also conducted the final and most important regular season award selection at this time.

The MVP of the regular season is a very valuable award. In the history of the league, those who can win this honor are very famous superstars, because to win this award, first of all, you have to be the core, and secondly, your The team's record must be very good, and it must have a very good ranking in the regular season. In addition, under normal circumstances, this award is selected after the first round of the playoffs. They also have to perform very well in one round.

With so many restrictions, it is impossible for the player who won this award to be a superstar.

In this year's regular season MVP selection, Kobe and O'Neal from the Lakers, Garnett from the Timberwolves, and Duncan from the Spurs were very competitive at the beginning. These are the core players of the Western Conference. Because the influence of stars in the East cannot be compared with that of the West, their popularity is naturally lower. This also forms the candidates for the second echelon of MVP, namely Artest, O'Neal, and Ben Wallace.

Of course, this was the beginning. In the middle of the season, and even later, Anthony suddenly emerged and firmly occupied the top of the MVP list. There are few people who can shake his position.

Of course, this is just an ordinary ranking, and the final vote is to be selected among the votes of commentators and media reporters.

As a result, on this day, in the anticipation of all fans, Anthony finally won 118 of the 90 first votes, completely crushing No.2 Kevin Garnett, who only got 15 first votes , became the third player to win the regular season MVP in his rookie season after Chamberlain and West.

This time, the name Carmelo Anthony was completely imprinted in the long history of the league.

(End of this chapter)