On May 11, Beijing time, the NBA officially announced the best team of the year. Selected include Alexander, Doncic, Alphabet Brother, Tatum, Embiid; Selected for the second team include Mitchell, Butler, Curry, Brown, Jokic; The three teams included Fox, Lillard, James, Randle and Sabonis. Marks, a salary expert, said that if the minimum number of games in the new collective agreement is applied, 5 of them will not be eligible for the selection, and Morant, who was not selected for this year's best team, spoke up and sent a bunch of emojis. He would earn $39 million less as a result.
Under the new collective bargaining agreement (playing at least 65 games in the regular season), five of the 15 players would not be named to the All-NBA: Alphabet (63), Curry (56), James (55), Lillard (58), Butler (64). The new collective bargaining agreement is expected to come into effect next season, when a star who misses a certain number of games due to injury will lose his qualification for major awards.
Before the All-Tournament roster was announced, Morant sent out a concerned emoji, and after the roster was announced, he pushed it again, expressing his thoughts with several signage emojis. Morant accumulated only 44 points. Failure to make the All-NBA team would disqualify Morant from upgrading his five-year, $194 million contract to a five-year, $233 million super-max contract.
Morant's involvement in the gun affected his reputation and he was banned from the league. When this turmoil appeared, many experts said that no matter what kind of statistics Morant played, he was not destined to be selected into this year's best team. In the regular season this season, Morant averaged 26.2 points, 5.9 rebounds and 8.1 assists per game, and they suffered a "black seven" in the first round of the playoffs and were eliminated by the Lakers.