Free Web NovelChapter 604: Chapter 186: Someone Always Has to Be the Best
As the biggest MVP favorite, Jordan hasn’t won a Player of the Month this season, making history.
Just when people thought Jordan was going to continue making history and sweep all the first-place votes for the season MVP, we shouldn’t forget that Anfernee Hardaway, Payton, David Robinson might take some votes, and Zhang Hao, this rookie, directly snatched the first-place vote from the American Cable TV Station!
The current situation of Zhang Hao appearing in hot news is very similar to Damon Stoudamire when the Best Rookie was announced, just to a more severe degree, with TV hosts broadcasting this news more fiercely.
When he saw this news, Zhang Hao felt that Jordan probably wouldn’t care about him anymore, let alone teach him anything.
However, despite that, he felt thrilled!
He even thought about calling Jordan to ask if he’s angry... but he held back this reckless behavior.
Yet, from some point, Zhang Hao started to really enjoy being in the limelight.
Los Angeles really can change a person...
"Since I’m playing in the NBA, why be afraid of the limelight?"
This is Zhang Hao’s current mindset.
Of course, to maintain his persona, he’s still trying hard to keep a low profile, at least making people feel he’s a low-key person.
Now it’s not about timidly developing anymore; the regular season was so intense, even in the first round against a team like the Kings, they furiously blocked and defended him. Trying to stay low-key and weak in front of opponents, waiting to timidly grow, clearly won’t work.
Now he’s still low-key because he discovered that keeping a low-profile persona is pretty cool...
Such a noble and pure reason, such plain and simple thought.
However, he surprisingly got a first-place vote in the Best Team voting, making Zhang Hao realize one thing—the media’s view of their Lakers team might be very different from the future media’s view of that 60-win Hawks team.
That Hawks team, although having 4 players selected as All-Star replacements, in the Best Team voting, no player got a first-place vote and eventually none were selected for the Best Team, making history.
Having a first-place vote doesn’t mean you can be selected for the Best Team. The extreme case could happen where you get the most first-place votes but don’t get selected.
For instance, 125 first-place votes are taken by 12 people, and one person gets 15 first-place votes, but they don’t get any second or third votes while others focus on choosing six different players...
The current situation is clearly not an extreme case; there’s no way he gets the most first-place votes, but someone did vote for him for first...
"Maybe I really can get selected for the Best Team? Even if it’s the third team, that would be amazing!
Has any high school rookie been selected for the Best Team? No, right!"
Zhang Hao got excited at this moment. freewebnovel.cσ๓
As for his teammates, their view is quite different from Zhang Hao.
It’s not that they doubt Zhang Hao could be selected for the Best Team. Instead, since the regular season ended with the Lakers locking first place in the West and entering the playoffs, they believed Zhang Hao had the highest chance of being selected, and they are sure Zhang Hao can make it.
They hadn’t discussed this topic because they mistakenly believed Zhang Hao might not care about this...
Having a stable persona sometimes can be quite a hassle.
...
The media always lead topics to extremes, so they can capture more attention.
A reporter from the American Cable TV Station just cast one first-place vote for Zhang Hao, and by the next morning, the news Zhang Hao saw was already discussing if he deserved to be selected for the Best Team.
"I really wish this was tomorrow morning’s news..."
Hearing Zhang Hao’s musings, Aprile Clark felt more confident: "I think tomorrow’s definitely going to be the news about you getting selected for the Best Team."
Does love make someone see no flaw? Zhang Hao nodded seriously: "You’re right, I think I should be MVP too."
"Yes, yes, MVP, but don’t just eat desserts, eat more vegetables."
"Alright..."
Zhang Hao felt he was being taken care of so well now.
He’s discovered that younger girls, around eighteen or twenty years old, seem to easily express maternal feelings, becoming the caretaker in a relationship.
But as they grow older, they increasingly believe they should be treated as a princess and want others to treat them like one...
Besides news about the Best Team, there was also last night’s game reports this morning.
The games were broadcast, and Zhang Hao watched them; the SuperSonics versus Spurs match was nothing interesting.
Sean Elliott scored 29 points, 7 assists but couldn’t lead the team to victory after David Robinson played 11 minutes with 6 shots and 1 made worsening his injury and forcing him out.
Kemp scored 13 points, 19 boards, Payton scored 23 points, 12 assists, and with a 95 to 75, the SuperSonics slaughtered the Spurs and took the lead in the second round.
The other game was much better to watch; the Knicks played on the road, defended very well, leading the Bulls 67 to 61 after three quarters.
Jordan tossed 22 times in the first three quarters, only made 8, scoring 20 points with very low efficiency.
But in the final quarter, Jordan exploded with 24 points, 4 steals, leading the team to a 30 to 18 last-quarter counterattack, reversing the game and winning 91 to 85, taking the lead in the second round.
In this game, Jordan scored 44 points, 5 boards, 2 assists, 6 steals with 35 shots making 17, where the last quarter he made 9 of 13 shots, plus hitting all 10 free throws, obtaining his career’s 34th playoff game with 40+ points. freewebnøvel.com
After the game, Jordan didn’t even accept an interview...
