Chapter 918 This Is a New Start!

The Seattle SuperSonics won the championship!

Yes and Durant shared the MVP of the finals!

The Seattle SuperSonics became the sixth team in NBA history to achieve the championship defense after the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls, and Houston Rockets.

At the same time, this championship is also the third championship trophy in the history of the Seattle SuperSonics, which also makes the Seattle SuperSonics the team with the fourth most championships in NBA history after the Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, and Chicago Bulls.

In the history of the NBA, the number of championships of the Celtics and Lakers is certainly far ahead.

Then the Chicago Bulls ranked third.

There are quite a few teams tied for fourth place, such as the Golden State Warriors, Spurs, SuperSonics, and Pistons, all of which have three championships.

But no matter what, tied for fourth is still fourth.

This championship of the Seattle SuperSonics is a championship of great significance to the Seattle SuperSonics, which makes this team, which is just a veteran powerhouse, seem to have a little foundation.

Although it cannot be said that they have the same rich foundation as the Lakers and Celtics.

But with the good record of the big city, the Supersonics can indeed pursue more after this championship.

Of course, the championship of the Seattle Supersonics is not only of great significance to the team.

It is also of great significance to all the players of the Seattle Supersonics.

For example, Yes, this year's championship has made Yes now a double winner of the regular season MVP, the Finals MVP and the championship.

This is a very, very great achievement. In the past, when the NBA media ranked the historical status, 2MVP2FMVP2 champions were the standard rankings for the top ten historical status.

After Yes won the so-called most difficult championship in history last season, ESPN, which likes to rank historical status and pick on people the most, was building momentum for Yes, raising Yes's historical status to the top ten, and even invented a "hard power historical ranking" for Yes, directly putting Yes at the top of this ranking.

But ESPN also knows that it is picking on people.

So it is just limited to picking saliva, and I dare not really rank Yes in the top ten in history. After all, a regular season MVP, a finals MVP, and a championship are not so convincing, even if it is crowned as the most difficult in history.

So when ESPN picks saliva, it has never invited experts to revise their historical status rankings.

But this year, on the day when the Seattle Supersonics and Miami Heat ended their championships, ESPN invited 100 experts to rank the newly revised NBA historical rankings overnight.

According to the new historical status rankings made by the 100 experts invited by ESPN this time.

Jordan, Magic, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Russell, Chamberlain, Larry Bird ranked sixth, and the seventh position was Yes.

Behind Yes is O'Neal, who has two MVPs, three FMVPs, and four championships, and Duncan, who has 2MVPs, 3 FMVPs, and 3 championships.

In this latest version of ESPN's historical status ranking, Yes entered the top ten, and Olajuwon also entered the top ten like Yes.

Olajuwon was not very popular in ESPN before, basically around 12.

The top ten goalkeepers of ESPN have always been Oscar Robertson or Dr. J.

This time, Olajuwon directly replaced Oscar Robertson and became the top ten goalkeepers in ESPN's historical status ranking.

It is really not easy for a player who has retired a long time ago.

It was already a foregone conclusion.

Professional players are equivalent to dead after retirement.

Even if they are dead, they can still carry the coffin forward. It can only be said that no one can expect that a person who can pull the triple-double status from the sky to the gutter will appear in the NBA.

The biggest surprise of ESPN's historical status ranking this time is that Yes has made it into the top ten.

Olajuwon replaced Oscar Robertson as a top ten goalkeeper.

It is the crazy drop in the historical status of point guards such as Oscar Robertson and Stockton.

Oscar Robertson dropped from 10th to 18th. Not only was Olajuwon robbed of his goalkeeper position, but even Nash surpassed him. Stockton dropped from 18th to 30th. The smiling assassin, who had always been dissatisfied with being slightly suppressed by Stockton in terms of historical status, replaced Stockton's 18th position this time.

After the finals between the Seattle Supersonics and the Miami Heat, the Seattle Supersonics, as the winners, were madly harvesting honors. This was inevitable.

Not only ESPN, but almost all major media in the United States were madly taking advantage of the heat of this finals after the finals.

ESPN was just the smartest one.

After all, compared to picking saliva, no one can compare to this media.

For example, Durant's historical status was directly airdropped to 40th, and Rondo's historical status was directly airdropped to 50th. Other major media definitely don't have the courage to do such things.

After all, Durant is in his second year, while Rondo is only in his third year. Durant is in the second team of the All-NBA Team, the scoring champion, the best rookie, and his average points per game in the regular season, the playoffs, and the finals are all very high. He has a few statistical honors, and he has also won the Finals MVP. He does have a little bit of historical status to speak of.

But Rondo...

This year, he got a third team, which is already Rondo's most solid personal honor.

Looking around, the most talked-about thing about Rondo is that he is the only active player in history, the second player in history to average a triple-double in both the regular season and the playoffs in a single season,

pulling down the status of others from the sky, and then floating his own status up.

This really has a taste.

And what's surprising is that in this historical status ranking of ESPN, Rondo's becoming the top 50 goalkeepers is not the most controversial.

This player, who was previously believed by the public to lower the level of the NBA as long as he stood on the NBA court, has received great recognition after this year's finals.

In fact, after the third game of the finals between the Supersonics and the Heat, Rondo's strength has been greatly recognized.

That ball control, that passing, being pushed to that extent by James, he was still able to play that kind of game. His shooting is indeed useless, but other than shooting, everything else is really quite diamond.

Just like what the No. 1 online fan said when he reposted ESPN's latest version of historical status, not the 15th.

"Historical status is not a ranking of strength. In my opinion, there may be many point guards stronger than Rondo in NBA history, but scoring is not all a point guard should be. I am not disrespecting Stockton. Stockton's scoring ability is not necessarily ranked in the top 30 in NBA history, let alone the 30th in the entire history. However, his historical status can still be ranked in the top 30 because of his statistics for more than ten years and his passing and ball-controlling ability among point guards. I think Rondo's passing and ball-control are no worse than Stockton's. At the same time, Stockton's statistics for more than ten years are strong in accumulation, and the strong is the total number. But Rondo, his data is also very strong, but he is strong in a single game. Man, he is the holder of all assists in a single game, half a game, and a single quarter in the finals and playoffs. He also averages a triple-double in the NBA regular season and playoffs. He is also a two-time NBA champion. When you see these, those of you who use Stockton to question Rondo, don't you think that if Stockton can be in the top 30, why can't Rondo be in the top 50?"

The treatment of a team winning one championship and a team winning two championships is very different.

And they won consecutive championships.

This can be seen from the current global public opinion on the Sonics players.

Because consecutive championships may create a dynasty.

This is the expectation given by public opinion and the media.

Yes is now ranked seventh, Durant is in the top 40, and Rondo is in the top 50. This is the expectation for these young players of the Sonics.

The Sonics won two consecutive championships, and they defeated the Heat, who had the strongest hard power in history.

As long as you are not blind, unless a meteorite falls on the earth and destroys it, the Seattle Supersonics and the young people of the Seattle Supersonics are the future of the NBA!

Don't bully the poor young!

This is the purpose of all public opinion in the NBA.

Jordan, Olajuwon, these retired players, you can bully them as you like, anyway, they are already "dead" and can't be slapped in the face.

But Rondo and Durant are different from young players. They have unlimited futures, not to mention that they have made achievements and are still in the Sonics. Now they can get more benefits by praising them than stepping on them.

This is also the reason why the current players are generally a little bit higher when the major NBA media rank their historical status.

Now the whole world is buzzing because of the Seattle Supersonics.

As a player of the Seattle Supersonics, of course, I am also enjoying this buzz.

As a professional player, even if the professional players of the Seattle Supersonics and the professional players of other NBA teams pursue different things, and there are some fairy-tale colors, the professional players of other teams pursue honors and money, and of course the players of the Seattle Supersonics also pursue them.

In this case, if you still don't enjoy such noise and flattery, then it's really a night of luxury.

The Supersonics won the championship in the past two years on the road.

Last year it was Boston, and this year it was Miami.

So the away championships in the past two years have made Seattle fans a little regretful.

The championship is good, but it was all on the road. Although there are many rich people in Seattle, the American Airlines Arena and the North Shore Garden have been occupied.

But no matter how many rich people there are, there are still more ordinary people.

So most Seattle fans can't be there in person when the Supersonics win the championship.

This has also been the happy trouble of Seattle Supersonics fans in the past two years.

Of course, troubles naturally need to be resolved.

The way Seattle SuperSonics fans relieved themselves was to give more welcome and enthusiasm to the Seattle SuperSonics players when they returned with the championship.

The championship parades of the Seattle SuperSonics in the past two years were indeed extremely grand.

This year, the number of people once again broke the record of four million.

The total population of Seattle is less than five million. Of course, everyone knows that there are many undocumented immigrants in the United States, and the real population of Seattle is definitely more than five million.

Adding the population of Washington State and some tourists, the number of people in the parade this year will definitely be even greater.

But when Wang Han, who was a CCTV reporter at the Seattle Supersonics championship parade, saw such an incredible scene, he was still a little shocked.

The Seattle Supersonics championship parade started at 2 pm, which is 2 am Beijing time.

According to the data from the rear, this Supersonics championship parade not only set an incredible new record for the number of Seattle Supersonics fans.

The domestic live broadcast ratings are also constantly setting new records.

"This is an incredible spectacle!"

Originally, the Seattle Supersonics' unexpected championship last year made Wang Han and many Chinese fans feel that Yes's miracle in the NBA was a flash in the pan.

It was a fleeting meteor that cut through the night sky.

But I really didn't expect that this was not a meteor, nor a mirage that was short-lived, but a spectacle that lasted for a long time.

Looking at Yes and the Supersonics players who were surrounded and shouted on the float in front.

Wang Han is very excited now.

Millions of people cheering for one person!

Hundreds of millions of people watching one person's speech!

What kind of treatment is this?

Even if it is the big beep every ten years, the treatment of the leader is just hundreds of thousands of cheers on the spot and hundreds of millions of people waiting passionately.

Now when Yes is giving a championship speech, he can be comparable to such treatment.

"Yes said it very well!"

Wang Han is excited and the other Chinese reporters next to her are the same.

Yes's championship speech this year did not shout "this is for you" like last year.

Instead, he thanked his teammates, even his staff, and even the caddies.

"Thank you for cheering for my MVP, thank you for your affirmation, but I prefer you to shout the name of this city and this team."

"This is not my polite speech, I am serious, everyone in our car should be MVP, they are all the best."

"KD, he will become the best small forward in the NBA in the future, the future league MVP, no, now he is already the league MVP, you saw his performance and his strength in this year's finals, this year, he is only 21 years old!"

"And Rajon, when he came here, I thought he could become one of the best point guards in the league. It was a bad decision for New York to give up on him. He is a player with good passing and control."

Not only these starting cores.

"And JJ, I am very happy to win the championship with you again. Without you, we would not have these two championships. You are the most solid mountain of the Seattle Supersonics."

Yes did not pull down any of the substitute players of the Seattle Supersonics.

Even Harden, who performed very poorly in this finals and almost went undercover, was thanked.

"Some people have misunderstandings about you. Many people suspect that you have no speed, no height, and poor shooting. You are not an NBA Finals-level player at all. But now, you are not only an NBA Finals-level player, but also a champion. Your future will shock the whole world."

At this time, not only the Seattle fans and Chinese fans at the scene, but also many people were watching Yes's championship speech live.

This time, Yes did not say such a golden sentence.

No one saw Yes crying.

But seeing Yes's speech like this.

Kobe, Nowitzki, Duncan, Yao Ming...

Everyone knows.

"This time is no longer a beautiful encounter. This time, Yes is really going to set sail to establish a dynasty belonging to him and his teammates!"

"This is not a championship speech, this is a swearing-in ceremony to set sail!"

This kid is really good!

O'Neal's big eyes kept blinking.