On December 1, the League announced the "Monthly Best Player Award" for November.
There was a rumor that if the Cavaliers hadn't lost two more games at the end of the month, the "Monthly Best" for the Eastern Conference's first month would have been LeBron James, who had the highest score.
After all, apart from averaging 30 points per game, he also had 8 rebounds and 8 assists.
The stats were simply explosive.
But because of those two losses at the end of the month, the Cavaliers fell out of the top four, finishing with 10 wins and 4 losses, far behind the Pacers, and ultimately, the award went to Su Wan.
Originally, winning the award was a very cool thing. Seeing these rumors saying the award was supposed to belong to LeBron but was snatched away by him made Su Wan feel even cooler!
He also discovered something very interesting...
The top five teams in the Eastern Conference were:
Indiana Pacers;
Boston Celtics;
Orlando Magic;
Detroit Pistons;
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