After the confession failed, I went to the NBA to play and lose weight

Chapter 230 First in Team History, First in the League
Now Li Chengming has become the only hope for domestic fans, and it can be said that it is highly anticipated. The Magic team's game has also become the highlight of every CCTV broadcast.

In addition to Li Chengming's personal factors, it is also because they are hitting the best record in the history of the Magic at this time.

In the 1995-1996 season, under the leadership of Shaquille O'Neal and Anfernee Hardaway, the Magic achieved a record of 60 wins and 22 losses in the regular season. At present, the Magic has tied the best record in team history. In the 6 games, he can surpass at any time.

Therefore, O'Neill and Hardaway were also caught by reporters and asked about the topic of records.

Although Hardaway has not been able to meet everyone's expectations of him, his personality has always been relatively humble, and he is also a good get-together with the Magic, and he has undoubtedly become a star of the Magic after retiring. Eye expression, often greeted him to come to share the joy together.

And Hardaway himself is also happy, so he also expressed congratulations and expectations at this time, hoping that the Magic can go further in the playoffs and surpass their predecessors.

O'Neal is different. This narrow-minded shark had a very unpleasant quarrel with the Magic management when he left the team. Although so many years have passed, it should have disappeared, but he obviously still remembers the grudge.

Not to mention, now that he has been displaced, he has just changed teams from the Heat to the Suns and returned to the West. Although he has changed his environment, his situation does not seem to have improved much. Sharks' first choice.

You must know that he had an unpleasant relationship with Nash because of the MVP competition, although it was only his unilateral unpleasantness.

Seeing that all the "predecessors" are living better than himself, it is strange that he can balance in his heart.

It's okay to talk about the Lakers. After all, he had a wonderful experience here, and after winning the fourth championship, he seemed to be relieved of Kobe, but the Magic is completely different.

There are also such things as Howard, who he can't understand, is now the star of the Magic team, and Li Chengming, who was called the "Little Shark" by the outside world at the beginning, completely broke away from the shackles of this title before the end of his rookie season. The head is very upset.

Naturally, he didn't have a good face when he was interviewed. On the surface, he said congratulations in advance, but he said that he was not optimistic about the performance of the Magic in the playoffs.

Although he didn't directly say that the Magic can't win the championship, among the championship teams he thinks, even the Lakers and the Suns he is in have said that the Celtics and the Cavaliers are in the East, but only without the Magic, the It has been able to explain everything.

Of course, O'Neal is not the only one who bad-mouthed the Magic. Because the regular season is coming to an end, the topic of the playoffs will naturally become more and more popular. In addition to the regular regular season summaries, major sports media, such as the best lineup, defense , MVP, rookie, etc., of course, also predicted the performance of each team in the playoffs, as well as the final championship.

At present, the Celtics with the lowest odds of winning are 2.5, followed by the defending champion Spurs and the current No.

It has to be said that the Celtics, Spurs, Magic, and the Lakers are barely added. This is the first group in the championship, and it is also the four teams predicted by the outside world for the Eastern Conference Finals and Western Conference Finals.

But there are still a lot of people in the East who are more optimistic about the Pistons, a veteran team, than the Magic, because their performance has been stable over the years, or the Cavaliers with James. Effect unknown.

After all, in fact, it is because the Magic currently do not have an effective playoff record, and it is impossible for the outside world to place too much hope on them.

However, Li Chengming and his teammates are ready to smash the glasses of these experts.

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The first thing they have to go through is a test of back-to-back away games. After leaving Cleveland, they need to go to New York to play against the Knicks.

As I said before, some bad teams near the end of the season did not take into account that they might play some unexpected performances. This time the Magic encountered a tenacious resistance from the Knicks in the away game.

Although the Cavaliers did not cause them too much hindrance, a big problem in back-to-back away games is fatigue. It is easy to fall into physical and mental exhaustion at the end of the season. For the players of the Magic team, it is inevitable to enter a Weak period.

And this time, Van Gundy deliberately let Li Chengming take a rest, and the others played as usual, but the gutter almost capsized.

Lewis was in poor form, 9 for 1 three-pointers, Turkoglu 7 for 1, Howard was so ecstatic by the hacking tactics, and finally relied on the explosion of Nelson and Evans on the back line, he narrowly won a victory.

Then the Magic defeated the Bulls and Timberwolves at home one after another. Howard recovered and scored 20+15 in a row. Li Chengming also scored 60 points in two games.

On the 13th, the Magic played away against the Bulls again, and it was another 20-point victory.

At this time, there are still the last two games left, and the Celtics lost another game, which gave the Magic an advantage. Considering that their last two games were back-to-back, the coaching staff decided to put the Eagles first. If it is won, the main players can be considered to rest for the last game left.

In this way, regardless of whether the Celtics can win the next game, the Magic can still occupy the top spot in the Eastern Conference and the league by virtue of the relationship between victory and defeat.

This year's West not only has fierce competition in the playoffs, but also has fierce competition in the head. There is no team with 60+ wins, but the East has two 60-win teams.

This also makes the outside world more optimistic about the prospect of winning the Eastern Conference this year. In fact, it depends on the performance of the Magic and the Celtics.

The last two opponents of the Magic are not easy to deal with. The Eagles need to compete with the Pacers for the last playoff ticket in the East, and the Wizards also have to compete for a better ranking.

But for the Magic, they have to choose, and it must be the Eagles, which can also be used as a preview of the first round of the playoffs.

Therefore, in this game, the Magic still "came out of the nest" in the away game. The last time the regular season was fully assembled, they easily held the Eagles.

The Eagles were under pressure all the way, and this time the Magic also had a surprise player. Morris Evans scored a season-high 28 points. .

Opposite Joe Johnson and Josh Smith, the old and new "Eagle Kings", performed poorly, and naturally they couldn't save the team's decline.

Probably they themselves felt that entering the playoffs would not be able to challenge the Magic at all, and they felt a little bit bad after they played.

Because the last game was back home, the Magic didn't really rest all of them. After all, they had to give an explanation to the home fans, so only Li Chengming was allowed to rest alone, wearing a custom-made formal suit and watching from the sidelines—— Because of back-to-back games, take care of his physical strength.

Others still needed to play, but the main force only played for more than ten minutes before coming down.

As a result, I didn’t expect the substitutes to be competitive enough today. Redick, who gave enough opportunities, scored 8 points on 4 of 18 three-pointers. It is the end of a big victory, and it also draws a successful end to this fantastic regular season.

(End of this chapter)