Desperate Times

As for the final member of the All-Defensive First Team, Jrue Holiday—Brother Zhu—the ratings for this award were rather unfavorable to him. After all, judging by the stats, his impact on defense was still well below that of those freaks.

And although he was also a two-way player, guards simply had less impact on the court than forwards and centers. It was an inherent disadvantage, one that was hard to make up for...

Chen was different. He was a 198-centimeter wing who stood two meters in shoes, not purely a shooting guard... Besides, he was a cheater~~

But Brother Zhu was only 193 centimeters tall. Even though he was also very strong, he still weighed just 93 kilograms. When it came to the flexibility to switch onto mismatches, he fell far short.

In fact, if not for the positional advantage that got him onto the First Team, Brother Zhu might not have been as popular in this category as Second Team selections Embiid or Leonard.

Now that the big Defensive Player of the Year award had been announced, the only major awards left this season were the MVP, which was a foregone conclusion, and the All-NBA First Team~~

But the League obviously wasn't going to announce all those awards on the same day.

They had to keep this buzz going for at least a week~~

After that, the only thing worth watching for fans that night was Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

With the series tied 1–1, the two teams arrived in Milwaukee that night to play at the Bucks' home arena, the Bradley Center.

Back on their home court, the Bucks should have been the team with more momentum and better form.

But Old Durant really was a top-tier road silencer... Even though there were no