ESPY awards ceremony ended
The annual ESPY awards came to a close at sunset on July, with 13 major awards coming to an end. In recent years, the rise of the NBA once again become the big winner, won the male athlete of the year (Russell Westbrook) and the best team of the year (Jinzhou warriors) two awards, to prove that NBA increased gradually in the United States the status of sports.
In addition to the two most heavyweight awards, the NBA finals MVP Kevin – Durant also won the championship of the year award. The three awards are NBA, the presence of other sports a lot less, NFL got the best game (the new England patriots Super Bowl vs Atlanta falcons), best breakthrough athlete (Dallas Cowboys quarterback Mike Prescott – four), the best ball (NLDS last time Aaron Rodgers to Jia Leide Cook’s Cross) and Comeback Player (Green Bay Packers – Jody Nelson). But which of the four awards is less important than NBA’s three?. In addition, the biggest upset of the year was awarded to the University Women’s national semifinals, ending the University of Connecticut winning streak at the 111 Mississippi State University. The best record breaking performance award was awarded to Michael Phelps, the swimming champion who has updated the number of world champion medals. Two other professional alliances, NHL and MLB, did not receive a crossover award.
By contrast, last year’s NBA finals won seventh games, culminating in the Cavaliers, and ending Cleveland’s long wait for the championship, which led to a more exaggerated NBA. The best male athletes, the best team, the best coach, the best game, the best champion performance, the best record breaking performance, this series of awards were all NBA players and teams get. Only the best ball, the best Comeback Player, the best breakthrough player and the biggest upset, these four small prizes to other sports carve up. The whole stage is almost the same as NBA’s own presentation ceremony.
This year is the 25th anniversary anniversary of the ESPY awards ceremony. Throughout the 25 years, the main awards of attribution, basketball in recent years the rise is very bright. In 1993, the first best male athlete was awarded the “flying man” – Michael – Jordan. After nearly 20 years, the award has been a basketball player in golf, tiger Woods and Diego had king Lance Armstrong winning the bike 5 times and 4 times, the rest of the time is the baseball, football and athletics swimming up. In 2011 became a watershed in this year, led by the Dallas Mavericks team got the first time in history, NBA champion Dirk – Nowitzki prize, since then, to now for 7 years, this award won by all basketball players.
The best team awards history is the same story, basketball has not been favored in the past 10 years, in 1996, the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team awards, is the only time in twentieth Century awarded basketball. For the first time, the NBA team didn’t appear until the Losangeles Lakers until 2002. In 2008, led by the three giants Paul Pearce, Kevin Garnett and ray Allen, the previous year, the penultimate Boston Celtics won the championship. After that, just 10 years into the year, the NBA team won 7 awards.
In 2008, the Celtics opened the history of NBA’s history as a net star. After this, Lebron James has to go to the Miami heat and returned to Cleveland two knights, the formation of the big three team, during which he won three male athlete of the year, his team won three best team of the year.
In 2016 NBA began a new broadcast contract, the salary cap rose sharply, the accumulation of star is becoming recognized Title Strategy alliance. The performance of the stars has also become an absolute key factor in the game. NFL has the attacking team and the defensive team. Each player performs his own duties. A baseball pitcher and hitter of the points, investment insurance team does not lose points hand, hit for the team to score. The fastest pace of the NHL is certainly not the difference, but the players are limited in physical fitness, except for the goalkeeper, and then strong players can only have 1/3 of the time to play on the floor. The other three major league environment has not changed much, but in recent years the accumulation of NBA star jerseys phenomenon, to maximize the space of personal heroism — 48 minutes of game time, two or three players each can hit 40 minutes, to take seven or eight shots into the team, so the team won the championship sure, there will be one or two or three play a particularly good player. If there are two or three such players accounted for more than half of the team playing time, the team is also very easy to be considered more worthy of the best team than other sports team title.
Sometimes, there will be some historic sporting events in a given year. For example, in 2010, the New Orleans saints won the 2011 Dallas Mavericks award, and the judges considered how much this was their first time in the history of the team, because they moved the fans to get extra points. Similarly, you can say that last year the Cavaliers won the prize for the same reason, not because of the accumulation of stars. But this year, the warriors won the prize, which is precisely the counter example of winning by historical significance. The other teams joined with the warriors, in the past year have achieved remarkable achievement: the Chicago cubs end team history 107 years without a crown of embarrassing record, Clemson University in the college football national finals on the end of the season 26 game streak across the University of Alabama, the Pittsburgh penguins is twenty-first Century NHL the first defending the success of the team, the new England patriots finished 25 points behind the Super Bowl jerseys china (the largest in the history of the previous maximum is 10 points), U.S. women’s gymnastics team is already 6 years of gymnastics team ruled the universe, that awards host, retired NFL superstar quarterback Payton Manning presided over the ridicule since Durant, want to play for a championship team, you should join the women’s gymnastics team. The other teams have a special historical significance compared to the warriors who won the title second times in the last three years by Durant. But even then, judges and sports fans voted for the warriors and voted for NBA. Visible, and historical significance compared to, or the accumulation of stars, can win people’s hearts.
To sum up, in recent years, the phenomenon of NBA’s “net star” has almost happened at the same time as the phenomenon of “dominating” in the ESPY awards ceremony. It can not help but connect these two things together. Regardless of the accumulation of star players on the basketball itself is good or bad, this phenomenon is indeed in the selection of awards for NBA win popularity. Of course, the same way, other sports fans also need not improperly belittle oneself in the awards, slightly inferior, NFL, NHL and MLB do not represent are not wonderful. No matter what the prizes were in the past, present or future, each movement still has its unique charm.