Women's Basketball KB Park Ji-soo, Fourth Regular League MVP... First 8 Wins
The Rookie of the Year Award is ‘WNBA Experiencer’ Smith… The Guidance Award went to KB Director Kim Wan-soo.
Jisoo Park, the 'mainstay' of Cheongju KB, a women's professional basketball team, was selected as the 2023-2024 regular league Most Valuable Player (MVP).
Park Ji-soo received all 110 votes from the press at the Woori Bank Woori WON 2023-2024 Women's Professional Basketball Regular League Awards Ceremony held at the 63 Convention Center in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul on the 4th and stood tall as the best player with a unanimous vote.
This is Park Ji-soo's fourth regular league MVP award.
Jisoo Park also won this award in the 2018-2019, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022 seasons. 메이저사이트
The only players who have won more regular league MVP awards than Ji-su Park are Seon-min Jeong (retired, 7 times) and Hye-jin Park (Woori Bank, 5 times).
In 29 regular league games this season, Park Ji-soo scored 20.3 points (1st place), 15.2 rebounds (1st place), and 5.4 assists (3rd place).
He also ranked first in blocked shots with 1.8, and in the contribution category that converted his personal record into numbers, he also ranked first with 1,283.9 points.
Last season, Park Ji-soo only appeared in 9 out of 30 regular league games due to panic disorder and other reasons, and KB failed to participate in the playoffs with 10 wins and 20 losses.
This season, when he returned healthy, Cheongju KB took first place in the regular league with 27 wins and 3 losses.
In addition to MVP, Park Ji-soo achieved 8 awards, including the Yoon Deok-ju Award (highest contribution), Outstanding Defensive Player Award, Best 5 Award, Scoring Award, 2-Point Field Goal Award, Rebound Award, and Block Award.
This is the first time that eight gold medals have been won in women's professional basketball.
He received a total prize money of 14 million won, including the MVP prize of 5 million won, the Yoon Deok-ju Award of 3 million won, the Outstanding Defensive Player Award, and the Best 5 and 4 awards in the statistics category.
Park Ji-su, who received the MVP, said, "(We) have worked very hard while playing basketball for years, and I know very well that we have worked harder than anyone else, shedding blood and sweat," and added, "I want to say that I am sorry for feeling like I am the only one receiving the spotlight." reported.
Park Ji-soo, who showed tears along the way, said, "There were moments when it was difficult to say, 'You must always endure.'
Anyway, I think I overcame it well and am here now.
I can't tell myself to overcome it one more time.
It was hard.
“I want to tell you something,” he said.
In addition to Park Ji-soo, Heo Ye-eun (KB), Park Ji-hyun, Kim Dan-bi (Woori Bank), and Kim Sonia (Shinhan Bank) were selected as the season's best 5.
The Coaching Award went to coach Kim Wan-soo, who led KB to first place in the regular league, and the Rookie Award went to Kiana Smith (Samsung Life Insurance).
Smith, who received 107 out of 110 votes from the press, recorded 9.0 points, 2.6 rebounds, and 2.1 assists in 21 regular league games.
Smith, who was born to a Korean mother and an American father and experienced playing in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) played in the WKBL for the first time last season, but only played in 17 games due to injury.
WKBL grants first-year as well as second-year players the right to receive the Rookie Player Award if they play more than ⅔ of the regular league schedule.
Smith was also selected for the Six Women's Award and won three awards.
Smith, who did not attend the awards ceremony, expressed her gratitude to her directors, colleagues and support staff in a prepared video.
The Exemplary Player Award, determined by the judges' votes, went to Incheon Shinhan Bank's captain Lee Gyeong-eun, and the Skill Development Award went to Lee Hae-ran (Samsung Life Insurance).
The 2023-2024 women's professional basketball season, which opened in November last year, ended with Asan Woori Bank's championship win at the end of last month.
Woori Bank, led by Coach Wi Sung-woo, came out on top after a fierce battle in the championship game, defeating KB, led by regular league MVP Park Ji-soo, with 3 wins and 1 loss.
This season's awards ceremony was held with fans for the first time ever.
Among those who purchased game tickets through the WKBL integrated application, about 30 people who showed active interest were invited based on the number and amount of purchases.