So I am the god of basketball?

Chapter 117 The end of the season

The slums near Elizabeth Apartments in Akron are like most places in America.

However, in recent years, there has been a child who has attracted special attention. He is only 10 years old, but he looks powerful and powerful. He is obviously different from other peers. Anyone who sees him can't help but curse:

Is this 10 years old?

Many people who have met LeBron say that this kid will become famous in the sports circle in the future.

His name is LeBron James.

Amidst the compliments from his neighbors, even LeBron himself felt that he was extraordinary. He had a dream, which was to let his mother live a good life.

Like most black people, LeBron never knew who his father was when he was a child. He once asked his mother, and Gloria told him that his father was dead. He didn't know if this was true, but he knew that it was not easy for his mother to raise him. She would leave early and come home late every day, and even LeBron rarely saw her.

But every morning, there would be milk and bread on the table, as well as enough change for him to spend the day.

Today is no exception.

When he got up, milk, bread and change were already on the table.

The difference is that there is a note on the table today, which reads:

LeBron, from today on, you have to remember that you have an uncle named Meng Lang, who has given us a lot of help! You should have heard of this name, he is very famous in the NBA!

One hundred dollars is not a large amount.

But after Gloria was robbed of all her belongings, the money allowed her to prepare breakfast for LeBron James and prepare pocket money for him as before.

This is actually a big help.

Although some people who have received this kind of kindness eventually become "come here to feed Mr. This is what Gloria thinks at this moment.

But her words, on paper, had a different meaning in the eyes of LeBron James.

He bit the bread hard, and for some reason, tears flowed from his eyes.

LeBron didn't know why he was crying, whether he felt wronged for himself or felt uncomfortable for his mother.

Anyway...

Sweet bread, mixed with salty tears, this breakfast left a very deep impression on LeBron James.

When Meng Lang woke up, he had forgotten this matter. The bodyguard did not relay Gloria's words. In his opinion, it was completely unnecessary!

He even felt that Meng Lang had helped the wrong person. This was a flesh and blood who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get close to him!

In the game against the Cavaliers in the evening, even though the Magic had no training and entered the state a little slowly, they slowly stabilized their position despite being suppressed at the beginning, and finally successfully reversed the game from being 7 points behind, winning 100 to 87. took the victory away from Cleveland.

Brad Doherty suffered a back injury at the end of last season and missed the entire subsequent season. To make matters worse, he still has not returned this season. There is news that Doherty's back injury has been recurring. I Thinking of retiring.

This news is a fatal blow to the entire Cleveland!

You must know that Doherty is only 30 years old this year, which is exactly when a center enters his peak period. Originally, Cavaliers fans were waiting for Doherty to lead the Cavaliers to a higher level, but who would have expected it? Got such bad news!

His absence is undoubtedly very fatal. Although the Cavaliers are still ranked 6th in the Eastern Conference this season, they lack this "stabilizing needle". In some games that they should have won, they often mess up their position, which leads to Lose.

Take this game with the Magic. At the critical moment, they were chased by the Magic for 8 points in a row, and they were overtaken, which ruined their good situation.

In the next game, the Magic continue on the road, visiting Detroit for the second time this season.

Chuck Daly looked at the third-to-last ranking in the Eastern Conference, and with a wave of his hand, he rested Meng Lang and Hardaway. When the Detroit media learned of the news, they praised Chuck Daly for being friendly and knowing how to save face for his old club.

After all, if all the main players of this Magic team are used, the Pistons will probably be slaughtered by at least 30 points.

Dai Li smiled slightly. He was not giving face to his old club, but he knew very well:

At this point in the season, the Pistons want to lose more than the Magic!

Sure enough, even though the Magic gave up the backcourt, the Pistons still lost by 7 points.

Shaquille O'Neal scored 35 points and 13 rebounds, defeating the Pistons alone!

For the Pistons:

Grant Hill scored 25 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists; Alan Houston gradually became a regular starter and scored 23 points in this game;

Although the two of them scored a lot, it was not critical. At the last moment of the game, Shaquille O'Neal dunked twice in a row to help the team seal the victory.

However, the Detroit auditorium was not disappointed. Hill and Houston stood together, that is the bright future of the "Motor City"!

Not to mention that Detroit is currently ranked third from the bottom in the Eastern Conference. With a young talent coming in this summer, the "Motor City" is following the same path of the Magic. Isn't it just a matter of minutes to rise?

So at this moment, they particularly enjoy this process.

The hug between Meng Lang and Grant Hill became the headlines for North Carolina the next day.

Meng Lang has endless fame, and Hill is also very strong. Not only did he become the player who won the All-Star vote in the NBA in his first rookie season. ——This honor is the first among the four major professions, which shows his popularity.

Now the "Rookie of the Year" award is about to be his.

Although there is still more than a week before the end of the season, there is no suspense about the "Best Rookie" award.

格兰特-希尔场均21.5分6.4篮板5.8助攻的数据，已经是NBA所有球迷都知道的“NBA第三例20加5加5”，不得不说，勒布朗-詹姆斯团队后来的宣传策略确实有效果。

Any rookie who is related to Michael Jordan and "Big O" is enough to get him enough respect.

With the current momentum of Grant Hill, it is obvious that Jason Kidd will not be able to steal the "chicken" this time.

However, this is just nonsense!

There is such a big difference between his and Grant Hill's statistics, and he still wants to share this season's "Rookie of the Year" with Hill. It would be too unfair for Carmelo Anthony not to win the "Best Rookie of the Year" in the future!

Meng Lang felt that this was an attempt to bring order to the future "rebellion against Tiangang"!

A very meaningful thing!

After the Pistons, the Magic returned to their home court and won consecutively. On April 4, with the end of the home game against the New Jersey Nets, the Orlando Magic's record was finalized.

An unprecedented 73 wins and 9 losses!

This achievement broke several NBA records in one fell swoop: First, it became the first NBA team to win 70 games in a single season. Then they also became the only team in the NBA to have no more than two losses in a single season!

The Orlando media was extremely excited.

Originally at this time last season, they believed that the Magic had the best season in team history. But compared with their results last season compared to this season... even they themselves feel a little bit like they haven't seen the world.

Is finishing third in the Eastern Conference worth being so excited about?

The outside world was also very surprised that the Magic finally achieved a record of 73 wins and 9 losses.

Even if the Magic win 70 games or even make greater progress this season, many media have expected this. But they really didn't expect that the Magic's progress on the original basis this season would actually reach such an exaggerated level!

This is no longer just progress, this is taking off!

Obviously, winning the championship last season allowed this team to complete a qualitative improvement, which was far deeper than they thought.

Of course, if we really want to talk about it, the most important thing is actually Meng Lang's transformation.

Last season, he improved his shooting skills to the top level in the league. This season, he has developed the top passing ability in the league. Even the lost "Larry Bird point pass" has allowed him to rediscover it. .

Now, he is not only the best shooter among pitchers, but also the best passer among pitchers. Even if he is placed in the hands of the best assists player in the entire league, he may not be unable to play!

The final "assist king" in the assists per game list this season is the Jazz's John Stockton. His average data per game is a break-up lead, averaging 12.3 assists per game.

But after him, Kenny Anderson, who ranks second in assists per game, only has 9.4 assists!

Meng Lang's 7.4 assists per game can rank 15th on the list, and he is only 0.3 assists per game behind Mookie Blaylock, who is tenth on the list.

Top ten in the league, there is no doubt that this is already the top assister in the league...

Moreover, in terms of ball possession ratio, he definitely ranks first in the league in assists.

And as the most important assist-to-turnover ratio at the first position, Meng Lang is also as high as 3.89. He averages 7.4 assists per game, but only 1.9 turnovers.

Even with this data, John Stockton has no obvious advantage against him. Stockton averages 12.3 assists per game, 3.3 turnovers per game, and an assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.7, which is 0.19 worse than Meng Lang!

Not only that, he is also the only player in the league who ranks among the top 15 in the league in both scoring and assists.

In addition to 7.4 assists, Meng Lang averaged 23.3 points per game.

This data ranks seventh in the league, beating Barkley, the 7 regular season MVP!

This season's scoring average has shrunk significantly. The highest scorer is Olajuwon of the Rockets, averaging 27.8 points per game.

David Robinson is a bit unlucky, he averages 27.6 points per game!

Last year, we were just a few tenths of a point away, and we saw the "scoring champion" give up.

This season, he was still only 0.2 points behind, allowing Olajuwon to take away the "scoring champion".

It is worth mentioning that the original "scoring champion" this season should be "Shark" O'Neal.

He originally averaged 29.3 points per game this season, but with the rise of Meng Lang this season, his scoring average has been somewhat affected, averaging only 27.1 points per game. Ranked third in points per game, missed the "scoring champion" this time!

But he actually has nothing to lose. Last season he won the "scoring title" that didn't belong to him. There is no regret in giving it away this season.

Only the world where David Robinson was injured has been achieved!

Even if he lost the "scoring title" last season, he should have been able to win the regular season MVP this season. After all, the Spurs had 62 wins and 20 losses, leading the entire league.

With last season's lineup and just one more player with a minimum salary, the team's ranking changed from fourth in the Western Conference last season to first in the Western Conference. The Spurs have changed a lot this season. But because Meng Lang and the Magic are so eye-catching, the outside world doesn't pay much attention to the Spurs this season.

All discussions about the record are related to the Magic.

If nothing else, this season's regular season MVP should have nothing to do with him!

You said, is this guy miserable enough?

But the "Admiral" is really ungrateful. You must know that even a low-key and introverted person like Derrick Rose will say to the media when he feels that he has performed well but not received enough attention, "I hope that when the media discusses MVP this season, Add my name!”

When the team became the only team to win 60 games this season, but David Robinson did not receive enough attention, he chose to stay silent and shut up the microphone. Even when San Antonio reporters tried to induce him to say something tough, his Her behavior was just like that of a wronged little daughter-in-law who couldn't even come up with a fart for a long time.

This is "Admiral", a domineering nickname, and a peaceful personality.

Such a person is suitable to be a teammate, but not suitable to be the leader of a team.

So much so that in the past few days, Meng Lang's speech after the regular season has become the "bible" circulated by the San Antonio media:

"The regular season is over, but this season is not over yet. We have achieved historic results, but we still need a perfect ending. Before we win the championship, we cannot breathe easy. We must tighten our nerves. , these hymns now will only turn into huge boos when we fail, swallowing us up. There are many people waiting to see our jokes, and what we have to do is not let them get their way!"

Responsibility, dominance and sobriety...

All the qualities a leader should possess can be seen in Meng Lang.

Although they don't want to admit it, they have to admit that this is the team leader they want to see!

On April 4, the day after the regular season ended, the league officially announced the results of the "Rookie of the Year". Without any surprise, this award belonged to Grant Hill.

He received nearly 70% of the vote.

The “20 plus 5 plus 5” publicity strategy can be described as a “big success”!

Duke has produced "Rookie of the Year" for two consecutive years, which makes Duke's name a favorite among this year's high school students.

The most obvious improvement is Duke's recruiting.

In the just-concluded 94-95 season, without Grant Hill and only led by Ray Allen, Duke fell to the top 32 of March Madness and entered the Finals for four consecutive years. This ended.

But for Duke, there is no need to worry, because many popular high school students have shown obvious interest in Duke this summer. In the new season, Duke will once again be a strong "victorious force"!

On April 4, the league officially announced the "Best Sixth Man Award". This award belongs to Anthony Mason.

This is also a very inspirational player. He was selected by the Trail Blazers with the third overall pick in the third round of 88. After several years of being on the bench, he averaged 3 points and 9.9 rebounds per game this season and became the "Best Improvement Award" The final winner.

On April 4, three days after the regular season was suspended, the NBA 21~94 season playoffs officially started!

(End of this chapter)