Although Jiang Dongbing's Coach of the Year award is not low in gold content, the Grizzlies' coach of the year who gets the most media attention is definitely not the Coach of the Year, but the team leader Stephen Jackson.

Although Jackson is a newcomer, he is recognized as the team leader within the Grizzlies, both in the locker room and on the court.

The honors he received this year are worthy of his status as the team leader.

The first is the All-Rookie First Team. This honor may not seem to hold much value, but being selected to the All-Rookie Team in the 1998 draft is a great year with so many stars. In fact, it is an amazing achievement in itself.

In addition, the honor of Rookie of the Year was naturally won by Jackson smoothly.

Then there is the All-Defensive First Team. It is worth mentioning that this year's All-Defensive Team is quite special. Whether it is the first team or the second team, there are six players instead of the previous five.

Under normal circumstances, this year's best defensive team actually consists of six players. Because this is the first time this situation has occurred in NBA history, Jiang Dongbing was deeply impressed.

Duncan, Mourning, Kidd, Payton, Malone and Pippen, this is the defensive first team in 1999 in Jiang Dongbing's impression, but now Jackson has directly replaced Pippen's position, causing Pippen to fall to the second defensive team.

So now the second team also has six players.

Even if Jackson is not a rookie, just being able to make the defensive first team once is actually an incredible honor.

However, the Best Rookie of the Year, the Best Rookie of the Year and the Defensive First Team are just appetizers for Jackson, and the bulk is still to come!

The best team! Jackson is also among them!

Mourning, Duncan, Jackson, Iverson and Kidd, this is the best team this year, and the lineup is quite luxurious.

Jiang Dongbing also didn't expect that the outside world was so optimistic about Jackson and even selected him into the first lineup.

Jackson is also another player who was selected to both the Rookie First Team and the All-NBA Team in his rookie season after Duncan.

This is not what surprised Jiang Dongbing the most. What surprised him most was that Jackson actually won the MVP this season!

After hearing the news, Jiang Dongbing was shocked and opened his mouth wide. He did not expect such a thing to happen. Mainly because in Jiang Dongbing's view, Jackson's decision to win the MVP seemed a bit far-fetched.

The three major indicators of regular season MVP are regular season record, personal data and improvement in team strength.

There is nothing to say about the regular season record. Jackson fully meets the indicators, and there is no problem with the team's improvement in strength. After all, the Grizzlies have improved from last in the league to first in the league. But in terms of this person's statistics, Jackson is really not very impressive.

However, Jiang Dongbing recalled it carefully. Historically, this year's MVP was not Duncan or O'Neal, but Karl Malone, so this makes sense.

Compared with Duncan or O'Neal, Jiang Dongbing feels that Jackson is less interesting, but compared with Malone, Jiang Dongbing feels that Jackson may be more qualified to win this year's MVP than Malone.

The main reason is that Malone's data this year is not very good, and the other two indicators are not as good as Jackson's. In addition, Jackson is young enough, which is also an advantage. Therefore, Jackson was chosen as the bigger one among the short ones and was successfully elected as the regular season MVP.

Just picking up an MVP, Jiang Dongbing even felt that Jackson was the son of destiny, and his luck was so good.

There is no doubt that Jackson has had a bumper harvest this year. He has won both the MVP and the double team. This is something that many Hall of Fame stars have never achieved.

I'm afraid that just by virtue of this year's double team plus MVP, Jackson will be eligible to be elected to the Hall of Fame after he retires.

When he learned that he had won so many honors, Jackson was probably overly excited and burst into tears. He had been living a hard life since he was a child, but now he finally succeeded in succeeding.

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In addition to Jackson, other Grizzlies players also gained a lot.

Miller was successfully selected to the All-Rookie Team. As a second-round pick who was about to lose the draft, being selected to the All-Rookie Team is a great story.

This All-Rookie Team is actually different from the All-NBA Team. The All-Rookie Team is selected based on position, but this All-Rookie Team is not based on position. For example, under normal circumstances, there is no big man in the 1999 Best Rookie Team.

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Wife manager Yan Christie successfully won the honor of the best defensive second team. Jiang Dongbing secretly thought it was a pity. In fact, with Christie's defensive strength, let alone a mere defensive second team, even the defensive first team, or even DPOY, Jiang Dongbing felt that Christie was qualified.

Taken.

Jiang Dongbing believes that the main reason why Christie failed to receive higher honors is because of the position Christie played.

Nowadays, it is much easier for inside players to get DPOY than for outside players. This year's best defensive player is Mourning. Jiang Dongbing doesn't think Mourning's defense is really better than Christie.

It's just that Christie's defensive style doesn't look attractive enough compared to Mourning's tough guy defense.

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Billups is the Grizzlies player with the most awards besides Jackson. His transformation this season is real and everyone can see it.

The All-NBA second team was selected at the same time as O'Neal, Hill, Webb and Payton. This was definitely a turning point in Billups' career.

Who would have thought that the super parallel import last season would be selected for the second team this season, and he would be on the same level as players like O'Neal.

In addition, Billups also won the MIP, which is the Most Improved Player Award of the season. Think about Billups last season, and then look at Billups this season. The progress is simply rapid. After winning this

The award is as well-deserved as Jiang Dongbing’s COY.

As for O'Brien, although his performance was considered outstanding, he was not as dazzling as Billups after all, so he did not win the award this year.

However, it is foreseeable that Xiao Ou will definitely have a good year next year, and he will definitely be selected for the best team by then.

Even Mobley and Lewis on the bench, if they can seize the opportunity next year, it is not impossible to win the award.

In addition to these game-related awards, Stewart also won the honor of Manager of the Year. Although many people know that the Grizzlies' trading operations were the work of Jiang Dongbing, this credit must be recorded on Stewart's head.

The Grizzlies have operated everything perfectly this season, whether it is drafting or trading. Therefore, the honor of Manager of the Year must go to Grizzlies general manager Stewart.
Chapter completed!