“I thought I wouldn’t cry because I won the 2017-18 season… ”
It is said to be as fast as light when breaking through, hence the nickname ‘Flash Sun’. Kim Seon-hyung led the team’s first integrated championship of professional basketball Seoul SK. Seoul SK won the Series 4-1 by defeating Anyang KGC Ginseng Corporation 86-62 in the 5th round of the 2021-2022 KGC Ginseng Corporation Jeong Kwan-jang professional basketball championship game (4 wins out of 7) held at Jamsil Student Gymnasium in Seoul.
As Kim Sun-hyung said, SK reached the top for the third time in four years following winning the 2017-2018 season. This is the first time SK has won first place in both the regular league and the championship. At the beginning of the game, where they wanted to win in front of the home fans, SK rarely went as planned. KGC’s Byun Jun-hyung’s breakthrough and Jeon Seong-hyeon’s 3-point shot had a gap of up to 12 points at one time, but it was captain Kim Seon-hyung who narrowed this gap.
“I thought we had to dig a hole in the second half. If not, I’ll show off my personal abilities… ”
Kim Seon-hyeong was forced to sit on the bench for a while following committing three fouls in the first half. He had this thought at the time, and when he came back on the court as he thought it would, he stirred under the opponent’s goal. He turned around in front of a foreign player and put a reverse layup shot, and if he wanted to drop a little, he put a 3-point shot and turned the game around in an instant. In the final 20 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists. He won his first playoff MVP, swept 66 out of a total of 96 votes cast by the press. Choi Jun-yong, who scored 21 points and led the victory together, received 26 votes.
“It was one of the bucket list items, and it was so good that I achieved it today, and following receiving it once, I want it once more.”
Kim Seon-hyung appeared in all 5 matches of the championship. He averaged 32 minutes and 01 seconds, averaging 17.4 points, 3.2 rebounds, 6.8 assists, and 1.2 steals. Kim Seon-hyung, who said that the playoff MVP was on his bucket list, became the second SK player to become the first MVP in 22 seasons following Seo Jang-hoon in the 1999-2000 season.
“After I injured my ankle, my pride was hurt by the evaluation that I would not be able to do it”
When asked how he felt regarding winning the championship, Kim Seon-hyung brought up a memory 4 years ago. It was a term used to describe Kim Seon-hyung in the 2010s, the best ‘dribbler’ in professional basketball, who runs the courts and steps the fastest in a light and flashy manner. However, the year they won the 2017-18 championship, he suffered a three-month injury before surgery and had to undergo surgery, which later suffered from a cup injury. Each time he recovered and returned to the court, but his speed seemed to decrease, and Kim Seon-hyung melted his experience into the decreasing speed and broke through. And I said this today.
“It was very difficult back then, but I overcame it and following 4 years, I feel like I am recognized as an outside MVP like this.”
