The day before the game started, the Mavericks went to San Antonio.

At this moment, the league announced the results of the second batch of awards.

Best defensive player, and best rookie.

Detroit fans were still angry last year that Ben Wallace was not elected as the best player, but this year, they would no longer have such troubles.

They even raised their heads and felt proud.

Because Ben Wallace won a vote for the best defensive player this year, which has won a new NBA history.

He got almost all the votes and was elected with a vote rate of 96.67%!

In other words, the remaining Mutombo, Garnett and others combined less than 4% of the votes.

This is not a slap, it simply erases all suspense.

“We saw a new Rodman and it’s interesting that they all started their careers in Detroit.”

The comments from fans on social media are interesting.

In contrast, the competition for the best rookie is much more intense.

This year's rookie, six players averaged double digits.

Yao Ming, Gasol, Jason Richardson, Bathir, Arenas, and Kwame Brown.

After Houston sent Mobley away, he fed the ball to the double towers and fed it to death.

As a result, one thing was proved that Houston's unhappy and mindless double tower combination was proved to be limited in talent, but the data was unhappy.

Brown averaged 12.2 points, 7.4 rebounds and 0.7 blocks per game.

Although this data is not outstanding in the second-tier show, it can be watched at least.

Of course, this performance failed to win too many votes for him in the best rookie vote.

The votes for the best rookie were mainly concentrated in the hands of two players.

Yao Ming, and Paul Gasol.

In fact, in the past season, because they are in the East, they have had a particularly fierce competition for the rookie of the month.

Yao Ming won the Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month in 11, 12, 2, and 3 in total.

Gasol took the remaining January and April.

Yao Ming has a more advantage in the number of rookies in the month.

In terms of average data, Yao Ming averaged 15.4 points, 10.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game, which was better than Gasol's 14.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists.

However, Gasol's team status and shooting rights in the Celtics are not as good as Yao Ming, and the Celtics' record of No. 1 in the East is better than that of the Wizards' third in the East.

So this suspense was revealed at the last moment.

The final vote results showed that Yao Ming won 48.36% of the votes and Gasol won 39.65%.

Yao Ming beat Gasol with a winning advantage of nearly 10%, becoming the NBA's best rookie in the 2001-2002 season!

And this result also means that the NBA's best rookie has been picked by Chinese players for two consecutive years!

Another historic moment.

Sun Hao only saw the news after he arrived in San Antonio.

He called Yao Ming immediately and congratulated him.

What surprised Sun Hao was that Yao Ming himself didn't know it yet.

This became what he notified Yao Ming.

However, this also shows that Yao Ming's current attention is all on the Wizards' playoffs.

Yao Ming was very happy to learn the news, and at the end of the call, he said this to Sun Hao.

"See you in the finals if possible."
Chapter completed!