On February 15, Beijing time, the NBA officially announced the latest issue of the player of the week, Demar DeRozan and Luka Doncic were jointly elected. Both men's performances last week are well deserved, and this is the 14th time in DeRozan's NBA career that he has been elected as the best of the week, and it is Chris Paul who has been on the list of this data, and he has thus performed as the number one in the NBA active guard?
So far this season, DeRozan has averaged 27.7 points, 5.2 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game in 53 regular season games with 51.2% shooting, and at the age of 32, he has set a record for the highest single-season average in his NBA career in the 14th season of his NBA career, ranking fifth in the league in points per game, which is the key to the Bulls' counterattack in the top two in the East. DeRozan averaged 36.8 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game in four regular season games last week with 59.8 percent shooting.
This is the third time that DeRozan has been named Player of the Week this season, the player with the most weekly bests in the league so far this season, and one of the only five players in the league to have won the week's best more than once so far this season; this is the 14th time in DeRozan's NBA career that he has won the best of the week, officially equaling Chris Paul on the NBA All-Time Player Week Best List, ranking 23rd in history.
The old-fashioned Paul has only been selected as the best of the week 14 times so far, how many of these performances rank among active NBA guards? Stephen Curry, who has been unanimously voted the regular season MVP, has been named the player of the week 18 times so far, and is tied for 14th place in NBA history with Magic Johnson, but Curry's performance can only rank third among the NBA's active guards.
Russell Westbrook is the only player in NBA history who has averaged triple-doubles in the regular season for two consecutive seasons, and is also the player who has won the most triple-doubles in the regular season in NBA history, as a rare "data machine" in NBA history, Wei Shao has been selected as the player of the week 20 times, but this can only rank second in active guard.
James Harden, who has been actively applying for trades for two consecutive seasons and has been voted Player of the Week 26 times, ranking first among active guards and the second most-often voted guard of the week in NBA history, behind Kobe Bryant. In addition, Harden is the third most-often-grossed player in NBA history, behind LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant.
As the saying goes, "the tree moves the dead to live", this sentence has been fulfilled again in DeRozan, leaving the Spurs he not only got a big contract but also led the Bulls to achieve the rise, and it is well deserved to be selected as an All-Star starter again!