The Bulls players started rushing towards Xu Yong. Noah was so happy that he hugged Xu Yong like a 230-pound kid and started yelling.

Xu Yong also raised his head and roared excitedly.

In such an intense game, it feels so good to end it in this way!

Moreover, this was the first time in his playoff career that he contributed a buzzer-beater, and it happened in such a crucial battle. It was so cool!

Soon, Xu Yong was surrounded by Bulls players and media reporters.

With the buzzer-beater in the countdown and the miracle of the dark eight, Xu Yong made a significant mark in the history books of the NBA tonight.

"This is the fourth black-and-eight miracle in NBA history. There were three before this. The first was the 1993 Nuggets defeating the SuperSonics 3-2, when the format was still a best-of-five series. Then there was the 1999 Knicks defeating the Heat, the season when Jeff Van Gundy was dragged away with his arms around Alonso Mourning, also 3-2. The last one was the 2007 season we are all very familiar with, when Nelson led the Warriors to defeat his former team, the Dallas Mavericks, 4-2."

Zhang Weiping, who had awakened to his professionalism, was now frantically explaining science in the commentary booth.

"It is more difficult to achieve a black eight with 4 wins in 7 games than with 3 wins in 5 games, so this should be the second time in history." Yang Yi corrected on the side. He also understood the way of customizing data.

Zhang Weiping smiled and nodded. This was true. The longer the series was, the more it could reflect the strength of the team.

"It seems that Xu Yong's score today is over 40?" Yang Yi reminded again with the statistics table.

"Hey, it's true! 41 points. Is this the first time that Xiao Xu scored 40+?" As Zhang Weiping recovered from his nervousness, his body gradually relaxed and he returned to his usual commentary state.

"Yes, his highest score in the regular season was 40 points, and in the playoffs it was 34 points." Yang Yi had already done the statistics.

"This is the potential. Hey, you see, generally only super stars can play better in the playoffs than in the regular season. If our Xiao Xu continues to play like this, wow, it will be incredible." Zhang Weiping said while shaking his head.

"It's incredible." Yang Yi cooperated and started to perform crosstalk.

While the two people in the commentary booth were chatting happily, on the court, James looked at the Bulls celebrating in the distance, stood quietly for a long time, then took off his braces, looked up at the score with a complicated expression.

In the two rounds before the end of the game, he experienced ups and downs, and Xu Yong's final buzzer-beater was shot facing him, a real kill.

This whole process was very similar to his career with the Cavaliers, where he led a bottom-ranked team to a championship contender, made it to the finals, suffered several defeats, and finally ended in the most painful way.

He really wanted to be like Jordan and turn the Cavaliers into a nationally famous team like the Bulls.

But he is not as lucky as Jordan. God always closes the door for him at the most critical moment.

He finally withdrew his gaze, turned around and walked towards the player tunnel with his head down. He was really tired of such days.

The carnival lasted for about five or six minutes.

After the carnival was over, the two teams shook hands after the game.

Most of the Cavaliers took their hats off to the Bulls tonight.

Although there is no such thing as honor in defeat, they were convinced after losing in such a head-to-head competition tonight.

"Man, you played great, a great game." O'Neal kept praising Xu Yong while shaking hands with him.

In addition to contributing 41 points tonight, Xu Yong also contributed 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks. He is undoubtedly the MVP player of this game.

And O'Neal knows it better than anyone else. After staying for this season, he can probably guess that James will leave in the summer. In other words, the probability of him staying is not high, so he is a free agent now and can say whatever he wants.

Xu Yong also reached out and patted O'Neal on the shoulder. To be honest, if Noah hadn't gained weight, O'Neal would still be able to beat the Bulls' inside players.

Lian Po is old, can he still eat?

After the handshake ceremony, Xu Yong and the Bulls players extended their hands to the audience, and they were responded with cheers from all over the place.

Honestly speaking, although there is no need to consider supporting their own home team, and they had already defeated the Cavaliers in the opening game, not many people thought they could complete the black eight.

But now they have really done it, it's a dream experience.

After several minutes, under the reluctant gazes of the fans, the players entered the player tunnel one after another.

Xu Yong stayed to be interviewed by reporters.

"Xu, congratulations, what a great game. What does it mean to you to be able to pull off the black eight miracle?"

"It means we have accomplished the Black Eight Miracle."

Xu Yong's answer stunned the reporter, and then Xu Yongxian laughed.

He was in a good mood and started to use dry humor.

"Just kidding, this is very important to us. No one was optimistic about us before the game. The Cavaliers also deliberately selected us. We proved ourselves, but like I said when I was selected by this team, we are young but energetic, and the future is worth looking forward to." Xu Yong continued.

The reporters also laughed along. People who really have a sense of humor are very popular with the media.

"You and LeBron had some arguments during the game. Can you tell us what you said to each other?" the reporter asked.

"Just some regular trash talking."

"Can you repeat it?"

"No, I won't. That's something on the field. Let it stay on the field." Xu Yong smiled and shook his head.

Although this kind of trash talk is very interesting, it would appear ungraceful if it were actually used on the court.

"Have you considered playing against the Celtics? You know, before this game, they had already confirmed that they would play against you in the next round." Seeing this, the reporter did not ask any more questions, but changed the topic.

"No, we just want to enjoy this night now. Black Eight Miracle, man, you know how valuable it is."

After saying this, Xu Yong saw Zhang Weiping and others coming over, so he greeted them and walked towards them.

On a night like this, he still wants to chat more with domestic fans.

…

Satan's Judgment, Bull Black Eight

"The first 40+ in his career, the buzzer-beater in the last second, Chicago no longer needs God"

"Zero-degree guillotine, killing the king with your own hands, the best shot of the season"

After the Bulls' upset, even though ESPN did not make a big deal about it, it could not stop TNT and other mainstream media from reporting on it.

The media thrives on traffic, and if they don't report crazily on such historic records and epic matches, they would be unworthy of the name of the media.

However, at this time, James' team released a message: Because his injury worsened due to playing with the injury, James was considering undergoing thumb surgery in the summer.

This wave of news caused heartache among fans on social media.

James tried his best, even though he played with an injury and still made the game-tying shot. Although the Cavaliers lost, James did not lose.

And there were voices on social media advising James to leave the Cavaliers.

"You've done everything you can for this city, and you don't owe Cleveland anything anymore."

"The Cavaliers lost because of the management. They failed to recruit strong teammates for James. Kobe had Gasol, but the Cavaliers only had James."

"It's time to let James go. Kobe is in a big city like Los Angeles. It was a mistake for James to be selected by the Cavaliers."

This wave of voices successfully diverted the topic. After fans paid attention to James' injury and whether he would stay or leave in the summer, their attention to the black eight quickly declined.

…

On the second day, except for the game between the Hawks and the Bucks in the East, all other games had ended one after another.

The Suns defeated the Nuggets 4-2, the Lakers eliminated the Thunder 4-2, and the Rockets also successfully avenged the Jazz 4-2. However, the Mavericks unexpectedly lost to the Spurs 2-4. Nowitzki's wimp was completely defeated.

In Oklahoma, Durant was furious.

He had a cold hand tonight, making only 5 of 23 shots and only getting 26 points by relying on free throws.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that the Thunder had a chance to push the series to a seventh game, but Kobe scored the winning goal before the end of the game.

It's really like Kobe. Kobe scored 32 points for the Lakers tonight, and the rest were Fisher and Shannon Brown who scored 11 points. Others like Gasol, Odom, and Bynum all scored in single digits. A great opportunity passed them by.

He now really wanted to tear down the Lakers' locker room like Wade said.

He could only take out social media to vent his emotions.

"What are you talking about? Kobe would never use injury as an excuse for playing. It's just a pure excuse. What kind of Iron Man can play a game with a broken bone?"

"If you can't win, just run away, right? Kobe would never be like you, it's really embarrassing!"

"Why don't you say that Tim Duncan is in San Antonio, Kevin Durant is in Oklahoma, and your Kings are special, right?"

Durant is really going crazy.

At this time, the teammates around him could all feel his angry aura, and no one dared to get close to him.

Except Harden.

Because of the previous "No. 1 favor", the relationship between Harden and Durant improved very quickly.

But as he watched, Harden suddenly froze.

He immediately reached out and held down Durant's quick hand.

Durant was very unhappy about being interrupted, and frowned when he saw it was Harden.

Harden immediately leaned over and whispered, "Account."

Durant didn't react at first, but was shocked after checking his account.

He forgot to cut the number!

Now I use the large size!

Fortunately, Harden reminded him in time, so he didn't send out the message with his own name.

But the two messages I sent out earlier cannot be withdrawn.

Although he deleted it quickly, some quick-handed fans had already taken screenshots.

The news that Durant teased James will probably spread quickly.

"James, are you familiar with nightclubs in Oklahoma?" Durant asked after putting his phone away and standing up.

"...It's okay." Harden signaled Durant to speak more quietly.

"Let's go, I'll pay for tonight's meals." Durant said as he put on his backpack and walked out.

Social media is definitely unbearable today, I have to find a place to vent.

When Harden heard this, he immediately smiled and followed.

…

Almost two days after the first round of series ended, the league announced the winners of the third batch of season awards.

Prior to this, the league had announced the awards for Best Defensive Player and Best Coach between the first round of series, with the two awards going to Dwight Howard of the Magic and Scott Brooks of the Thunder respectively.

Howard won the award for the second consecutive year.

There is only one award in the third batch, and it is also the most popular award: MVP.

There is a small detail here, which is related to the Warriors' black eight defeat that year.

After Nowitzki was eliminated, according to his own description in a later interview, he was extremely embarrassed. He had let his city and team down, and he just wanted to escape quickly and find a place where no one knew him to spend a vacation or do something else.

However, the league called him at the time and told him not to leave in a hurry because the MVP award had not yet been awarded and Nowitzki was one of the popular candidates.

At that time, Nowitzki directly replied: "Give it to others, I don't deserve it this year."

But this kind of honor was definitely not given up. Afterwards, he was really selected as MVP, and the league also held a grand award ceremony for him.

Two weeks after the Mavericks were eliminated in the quarterfinals, he wore a suit and gave the most uncomfortable and embarrassing acceptance speech of his life.

It was precisely because of that incident that the league later changed the MVP selection time, moving it forward to almost the end of the first round.

In this way, even if a similar situation occurs again, the second "Nowitzki" will not wait in vain.

Of course, this is actually more to allow the stars to have more personal time in the summer. After all, most of the candidates are famous stars.

Moreover, it is extremely rare for a player to win the MVP but be eliminated in the first round. In the entire NBA history, Nowitzki is the only one who is ashamed.

Because let alone winning the MVP, the black eight has only happened three times, and the probability is comparable to winning the lottery.

Anyway, this year's MVP selection came a little earlier than in previous years.

Because the second round of the series has not yet started, the results of this selection have also attracted much attention.

The final result came out without too many surprises. With regular season averages of 29.7 points, 7.3 rebounds, 8.6 assists, 1.6 steals and 1 block, 50.3% shooting percentage (career high), 33.3% three-point shooting percentage, and the team's best record in the league, James received more than 37% of the votes, almost crushing Durant (19%), Kobe (18.7%), and Howard (14%) to successfully retain the MVP award.

He also became the 10th player to win back-to-back MVPs after Bill Russell, Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Jordan, Duncan and Nash.

There is no doubt that James and the Cavaliers played an excellent season.

However, this honor also made him the second player in history to be eliminated in the first round after winning the MVP honor.

This list, which was previously dominated by Nowitzki alone, finally has a second person on it.