The Lakers beat the Jazz on April 13, and they adjusted their recuperation for three days before facing the next game on April 17.

During these three days, the league's media was busy, and basketball practitioners entered the most intense and busy time at the end of the season.

The first is the statistics of the regular season record, and the regular season standings are already clear, which also means that the situation in the playoffs is clear. Analysis of the situation in the first round of the playoffs, will there be a dark horse, after all, the first round is still a best-of-5 system, which gives many teams the opportunity to upset the weak and the strong.

Then the regular season awards are judged, and many of the awards are chosen by media commentators. For example, MVP, Best Defensive Player, Best Coach, Best Rookie.

There is still a lot of controversy about this season's MVP, with the Bulls and Lakers scoring 70 wins, which presents a huge problem for commentators. It stands to reason that the records of these two teams are a notch behind the other teams, and the stars of both teams are also the strongest players in the league. But this MVP is really hard to give.

To Jordan? He just won an MVP last year, and even if he is the first person in the league and he does not surpass last year's achievements, it will be difficult for the media to award him the MVP award again.

To O'Neill? O'Neal's strength and performance are enough to prove that he is the league's No. 1 center, Olajuwon was slightly suppressed in front of him, the admiral was absent due to injury, and Ewing was old and was blown up by O'Neal. It's a pity that O'Neal's absence from more than 20 games due to injury is too crucial, and if it weren't for Kemp's push, then this year's O'Neal would have won the MVP of his career. And during the absence, the Lakers' record was not affected much, which also made O'Neal's rating drop significantly.

To Kobe? Too young, right? He's only 18 years old! He wasn't even of legal drinking age, even if he was violent. He also didn't prove himself to be a truly trustworthy superstar in the playoffs. In the sports world where seniority is serious, if Kobe Bryant wins the MVP, it will be a subversion for everyone. This year's media appraisers won't vote for Kobe Bryant even if they think he deserves an MVP. Kobe Bryant still has a long way to go in the future, and now it's better to give honor and opportunities to experienced veterans!

To Pippen? No kidding, although he is the second best player on the 70-win team, his true strength has been very evident in the period when Jordan retired. He is just an ordinary star, not a superstar at all, such a mediocre player, a 21+7+6 player, is not qualified to touch the highest honor of the regular season of American professional basketball. No one would agree to give him this award.

So even with 70 wins from the Bulls and Lakers, they were still excluded from the regular season MVP selection.

The rest are the players of Malone, Olajuwon, Hill, Mourning, and Kevin Johnson.

Media commentators disagreed, voting their votes for different players. Wait for the final draw at the end of the season.

Best Defensive Player, there are several candidates for this award. Mourning and Uncle Mu bore the brunt of the attack, followed by Kobe Bryant and Jordan Pippen on the outside, and the three of them are the strongest defensive aggressive in American professional basketball and the players who contributed the most wonderful defensive shots.

The award for Best Defensive Player is actually a bit strange. Sometimes it happens that the best defensive player isn't on the All-Defensive First Team. This is due to the fact that the best defensive player is voted on by media commentators, many of whom are impressions, and the more famous they are, the more exciting the player will be selected. The best defensive team is by the coaches, who pay more attention to the real defensive ability on the field. Reading nests

Defense wins championships, but there are fewer and fewer players who can dominate the game on defense. After Olajuwon gets old, this award for the best defensive player is no longer the preserve of superstars. After all, it's much harder to dominate the game with defense than offense.

The award for Best Coach went to Silver Fox Del Harris almost without suspense. Harris had already won the Coach of the Year once in '94-95, his second in three years.

Harris's coaching performance with the Lakers this season is really amazing, first of all, he has developed Kobe Bryant to an incredible level, although this is inseparable from Kobe's own talent and hard work. But if Harris thinks Bryant is too young and presses him to the bench, no one can say a word wrong.

And Harris didn't, he directly put Kobe Bryant on the starter. From the beginning of the season, 18-year-old high school students were given offensive initiation, which was unprecedented in professional basketball. The opinion of media commentators is that if this were not the case, Kobe Bryant would not have been able to grow into a superstar-level player and become the strongest rookie king in history after a season has passed, which is all due to Harris's discernment.

Another shining point is that after Harris pinched Kobe and O'Neal, it is always known that the more stars, the more players will inevitably affect each other when they play together on the court, and the ball power in this era is extremely limited, which is why there is no coexisting team boss in this era.

And Kobe Bryant and O'Neal seem to have broken this law and become superstars as rare as Magic and Skyhook. This is definitely indispensable to Harris's tactical set-up, and he perfectly inspired Kobe and O'Neal to play like teammates who have worked together for many years.

The last point that convinced the rest of the league and college coaches was Harris's use of small tactics, such as some three-point tactics, elevator doors, hand-to-hand hands, explosive serves, small lineups, one-shark, three-shooter, etc., these are all tactics that basketball practitioners can see. And the Lakers did have a lot of advantages with these tactics.

There are only a handful of coaches who can threaten Harris. One is Pat Riley, who led the Heat to climb to second place in the East, the other is the new coach of the Suns who let the dying Suns survive, Danny Angie, and the other is to lead a Jazz with a very poor lineup on paper, to win the second place in the West, Jerry Sloan.

The award for the best rookie is even more suspenseful than the best coach.

The 96 golden generation has produced many personnel, and even those who average more than 15 points per game include Kobe, Iverson, Kanbi, Anthony Walker, Raheem, Marbury, Kidders and so on. This is rare in any era, and it stands to reason that the competition for the best rookie should be fierce, because there are so many good rookies in the golden generation.

But—there's a man named Kobe.

He averaged 29.2 points, 4.2 rebounds, 7.8 assists, 2.1 steals, 0.8 blocks and 3.1 turnovers per game.

Can anyone compare this performance? Kobe's comparison object is no longer a rookie. And those superstars in history.