863: A new opponent appears
The Grizzlies defeated the King and successfully avoided a series of losses, allowing the Grizzlies to survive October and November safely.
As time just entered 12, Link gave the whole world a surprise.
To be precise, even he himself was "surprised".
Early in the morning of the first day of December, Link saw the league news and found that he had become the best of the month!
As an old bird who started his fifth NBA season, Link is also aware of some unwritten rules in the league.
For example, if someone cannot swipe data when he has given up the game, it will be considered disrespectful.
For example, rookies usually help the team’s “old men” do some chores. Even if you are already 30 years old, as long as you come to play in NBA for the first time, you will not be spared.
The best month is not easy to give players on the injury list, which is also one of the many unwritten regulations of the NBA.
Just think about it, this rule is not nonsense.
If a player averages 30+10+10 and leads the team to win a full record, but gets injured after only two games in total, the best month will naturally not be given to him.
So after he was injured, Link didn't think about the best thing about the moon at all.
Little did they know that in the end the honor actually fell on me.
Link immediately looked at the news from various media and found that they were actually quite surprised.
However, after a break of analysis, it is reasonable to have Linken's best month.
To use an espn article, "Although Link was injured, you can't find a second player who can compare with him through the entire West. There is not even one who can get close to him."
Subsequently, the article analyzed the data of Link and Curry in detail in November.
Why analyze Curry? Because Stephen Curry is the most popular player in the West in November. He not only led the Warriors to score 13 wins and 3 losses in the first month of the new season, but also has excellent personal data.
Both averaged 23.8 points and 7.8 assists per game ranked fifth in the league, seventh in the league with 1.94 steals, and third in the free throw percentage of 92.3%.
In all 16 games, Curry's assists reached at least 5 times, making him the player in NBA history who scored at least 5 three-pointers and sent at least 5 assists in a single game.
At the same time, he still scored 30+ points in four games, and a performance that broke the 40 mark.
It can be said that Curry is completely performing at a superstar level.
Link also knew that this was a season when Curry began to rampant the league, and he became unstoppable from the 14-15 season.
The best month is given to him, there is no problem at all.
However, Link's performance in November was even better than Curry like this.
The first thing that was hit was the 63 points that Link hit when he faced the Rockets on November 8!
All four games are 30 points and 40 points, and they are overshadowed in front of Link's 63 points.
After all, 63 points is Kobe's highest single-game scoring record after 81 points, and cannot be ignored.
Moreover, Link also led the team to break the opening record of winning by double-digit score difference in seven consecutive games, demonstrating the Grizzlies' strong dominance.
In addition, Link had two triple-double performances in November, which are untouchable to Curry.
In terms of average data, Link is not worse than Curry.
Link averaged first in the league in November, 6.7 points higher than Curry! Average 8.5 rebounds and first in the third place! Average 8.3 assists per game, third in the league, second only to Paul and Rondo.
Curry's average data per game is already terrifying enough, with many data ranking at the forefront of the league, but Link has successfully surpassed it in all aspects!
Although he is indeed not as good as Curry in terms of steals and three-point shooting per game, Link's average of 1.4 blocks per game is also out of reach.
In terms of shooting percentage, Curry is one of the only two players in the league whose shooting percentage has reached 49%, three-point shooting percentage has reached 40%, and free throw shooting percentage has exceeded 90%.
That's right, just one.
And the other player who meets this condition is Link...
Curry's performance in November has already caused a storm in the entire league. But if someone can play better than this guy who caused the storm, it goes without saying that they know how terrifying it is.
Therefore, although Link didn't play for a week in November, the league still awarded the best of the month to Link.
Link's few games were missing, and he could not hide his greatness and excellence.
After reading the analysis of the espn article, Link shook his head.
Curry is probably so depressed now that he performed like a super giant, but was crushed by another super giant.
It’s not that I’m not strong enough, but the other party is so perverted and strong!
Link is also speechless when he can play health basketball for the best month.
There is no way, so I can only accept this award with a smile.
After winning this award, Link has won the Player of the Month 9 times in his career!
Don’t think that the 9-time best player in the month doesn’t seem to be that exaggerated, but in fact, there are only 4 players in NBA’s career that can win 10 or more players in their careers.
O'Neal, a historical behemoth, has been fighting in NBA for 19 years and has only won the best of the month 12 times.
As a man known as "God", Jordan won 7 more months than Link now.
It was already quite incredible that Link was able to win his 9th best month in the first month of his fifth year of his career.
In comparison, Wade has only won the best month four times in his career, and Howard has been so powerful for so many years, but he has only 4 times.
As a talented player with James in the draft, Cameron Anthony has only won three career times so far! Kelly Irving, as a popular ball player, has never even been there once.
Link only needs to win the best of the month once again to surpass Garnett, who also won 9 times, and ranks fourth in NBA history!
Seeing that Link could achieve so many achievements even with injuries, Warriors fans would of course not do it.
In the afternoon, when Link was paying attention to this matter after training, he found that the Internet had become a mess.
"Give the best of the month to an injured player? Is the league serious?"
"If Linkedo played those three games, his average number would not be better than Stephen's!"
"It's so ridiculous. Why isn't the league counting Link's 63 points? In that way, Link averages 63 points per game!"
"Did the best month give it so rashly? Stephen is playing all the time. Who knows if Link plays well, can he still get the data that surpass Stephen?"
"The league has taken care of Link so much, and this award should belong to Stephen. No player has ever had such privileges, and Link is the first one."
Sure enough, Link won the best month during his injury, which made Warriors fans very unhappy.
It would be strange if you can convince yourself that the star of your team played so well and didn’t win the award.
"Damn, I didn't snatch the best of this month." Link curled his lips. The alliance was willing to give it to me. What can I do?
It's all spurted on my head.
Link was indeed a little angry when he looked at these comments. But Link was not competing with the fans, that would make no sense.
But Link never expected that after returning home in the evening, the Warriors players also joined the battle.
Draymond Green, who shined under Steve Cole this year and gained great popularity, couldn't help but speak on social media.
"It doesn't matter. Who is the real best month? You will know after a fight. The next time you meet the Grizzlies, Stephen can surpass Link in all directions, and he is just a rubbish."
Although Green, who was unspoken, quickly deleted the news, there was no doubt that the matter had spread rapidly and the fans had already retained the evidence of screenshots.
Fans provoke Link, but Link doesn't care.
But when the opponent's players provoked, Link could not sit idly by.
"Chasing Dreams" Green caused the Golden State Warriors and Link to have friction for the first time, and the two teams stood opposite each other for the first time.
Link and James, Link and Durant, Link and the Spurs are all old almanacs.
Now Link and the Warriors will open a new page in history.
Chapter completed!