Day: May 29, 2022

EKingsNews-NBA News: Stephen Curry Wins NBA Western Finals MVP Award

The latest NBA Ekings News has revealed that Golden State Warriors Stephen Curry won Magic Johnson’s Most Valuable Player award in the Western Finals.

Stephen Curry was named the Western Finals’ first Most Valuable Player, and Draymond Green embraced the Golden State War star. The Warriors lifted him up, and screamed.

Stephen Curry smiles and laughs. As he celebrated his return to the NBA Finals with the Magic Johnson Most Valuable Player trophy, the first Western Final after the Golden State Warriors defeated the Dallas Mavericks with a 120-110 victory in Game 5.

Trophies

The League introduced new trophies for the MVP of both the Eastern and Western Finals. The Eastern trophy is named after Larry Bird. “This new trophy is cool,” said Stephen Curry, who was chosen by nine media members, “especially the ones that are named after the standards of Magic. Johnson is defined in terms of being a champion and playing as a point guard. But no matter what other position he plays, It’s just the excellence he has shown throughout his playing career.”

Stephen Curry has a full performance in the Western Finals. He averaged 23.8 points, 7.4 assists, 6.6 rebounds, and 43.9% shot down from three points in the series. The Warriors said of Kerry, “Everything revolves around him. We have a lot of great players around him. Those players that get along well. It all starts step by step. He did a lot of damage to the opposite defense. Then even on the nights, he didn’t shoot the ball very accurately. But he forced himself to be the core. and frees other players.”

“His defensive games throughout the year have been completely underestimated. He’s as strong as ever. He can play for 35 minutes, battling through screens time and time again. Then on the other side, he got the ball, giving others a chance. and shoot yourself.”

Stephen Curry’s return to NBA Finals is the real reward. Especially after reaching the final five times in a row between 2014-15 and 2018-19 and winning three. However, Golden State has missed the playoffs for two consecutive seasons, but the Warriors are now in the final for the sixth time in eight years, the first team to do so since Chickaka Boo. Les from 1991 to 1998, led by Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen.

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EKings News-Volleyball News: Australia Coach Prepares for VNL Debut

Australia Coach Prepares for VNL Debut

The opening match of the 2022 Nations League Volleyball is approaching on 8 June, the Australian men’s national team is now complete. All the players have been selected by new head coach Dave Preston. They are now reunited for training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. The Volleyroos, who won just one of their 15 games last year to rank 16th. They will also face Slovenia, Iran, and the Netherlands in the first week of this year’s tournament.

“It’s great to see the Volleyroos team back on the pitch together, and it’s a great opportunity for me to be with the squad for the first time,” said Preston. “We are all looking forward to the challenges ahead, and I am excited to see what this group can achieve going forward.”

The Australian roster features several veteran players such as opponents Thomas Edgar, libero Luke Perry and middle blockers Nehemiah Mote and Beau Graham. But also younger players with less experience, like outfielders Sam Flowerday and Ethan Garrett. T

New Coach and New Player

Setter Arash Dosanjh, who spent the club’s last season playing in the Italian second division alongside Gioiella Prisma Taranto. Very happy with the team being reunited for the first time since the end of last year’s VNL.

“It’s always a pleasure to come back from a club season and join the national team to prepare for the international season,” he recalled. “We have a new coach and a lot of new players joining the team this season, so it’s an exciting time for the national team. We’ll have a pretty busy camp to get used to playing each other. And learn about the new system that Dave will implement. But everyone is ready to get started and excited to see what we can do with this campaign.”

The VNL 2022 schedule for men’s volleyball is held from 8 June to 24 July 2022. However, the women’s volleyball match took place one week earlier. The Volleyball Nations League or VNL 2022 match. It was followed by 16 countries, one of which was the male volleyball players from Japan. The VNL 2022 draw results put the Japanese men’s volleyball team in Group A along with the Netherlands, Brazil, the United States, Slovenia, Iran, China, and Australia. While in group B consists of Bulgaria, Poland, Canada, France, Italy, Serbia, Germany, and Argentina. The VNL 2022 men’s volleyball match schedule will take place from 8 June to 24 July 2022. The following is complete information.

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Badminton News: Tickets Malaysia Open Laris Manis

Badminton News Malaysia Open Tickets Laris Mani

Malaysia Open Tickets are selling well. The response to the Malaysia Open badminton championship from 28 June to 3 July has been overwhelming. According to the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM), tickets from the quarter-finals onwards are nearly sold out.

Secretary General of BAM Datuk Kenny Goh said the Petronas Malaysia Open would be back at the Arena Axiata in Bukit Jalil after a two-year absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I was told the response was very good, and tickets were almost sold out for the quarter-final stage and beyond. Just a little bit more,” he told reporters at the Petronas U-21 Championship at the Pahang Badminton Association hall here today.

Ticket sales open on May 26 through the website www.myticket.asia. With ticket prices between RM25 and RM500 and the early bird promotion is limited to the first 2,000 tickets sold. The Malaysia Open, one of the top five super-series tournaments in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) calendar, offers prize money of US$675,000 (RM2,963,250). In the five-day U-21 championship for reserve and junior players, Kenny said he was satisfied with the players’ performances because they played high-quality badminton. Justin Hoh Shou Wei won the men’s singles title while Wong Ling Ching lifted the women’s singles crown. Muhammad Fazriq Mohamad Razif/Wong Vin Sean won the men’s doubles. Meanwhile, the women’s doubles were Teoh Lexuan/Wong Ling Ching and Tan Wei Liang/Ho Lo Ee mixed doubles.

Ng Tze Yong Will Not Participate in the Indonesia Masters

It is confirmed that the men’s singles player from Malaysia, Ng Tze Yong, will not participate in the Indonesia Masters and Open 2022 events. Because Ng Tze Yong will focus on recovering and preparing for the tournament in Malaysia. This was conveyed by the men’s singles coach, Wong Choong Hann, who explained that his team was not yet fit because of the tight tournament. No wonder because since March 2022, Lee Zii Jia’s colleague has started participating in tournaments. So ahead of the tournament in Indonesia, Ng Tze Yong was forced to miss first. In addition to recovering, Choong Hann also explained that there would be improvements in the appearance of his foster children.

“We have decided to pull him out of the Indonesian Masters to give him time to recover. And prepare for the tournament in Malaysia,” said Choong Hann.

“He admits that he needs extra time to fix the weaknesses in his game.” The 22-year-old player has experienced a decline in performance since the 2022 Asian Team Championships (BATC). In addition to participating in other tournaments since March, of course, a fatigue factor comes to Ng Tze Yong. Therefore, Choong Hann explained that Tze Yong needed time to achieve his best performance. Even when compared to Lee Zii Jia, he had to go through a long time to reach his current appearance.