Chapter 347: April is coming! Headline Battle!
April 1997 has arrived, and the regular season has entered its final month! April Fool's Day on April 1 has just passed, and there are many major events in the league in a row, with different headlines in each sports section, and there are so many events worth mentioning in a big way.
March is a month of turmoil and change of day for the Alliance. The battle for the top spot in the league between the Lakers and the Bulls has never been decided, and Michael Jordan defeated Kobe Bryant in advance with a series of exaggerated performances to take the honor of scoring champion into his arms.
Kobe Bryant's 60+, the youngest triple-double, the hunt for Olajuwon, the reversal of the Miami Heat Big Three and other deeds shocked the American professional basketball team, and the title of the youngest superstar is known to everyone in the basketball circle.
The Heat overtook the Pistons and moved to second place in the East. Houston opted out of the Western Conference and began a massive rotation. And at this time, there is still a team, a team that quietly ushered in a single month of 13 wins and 1 loss!
The best record of March was not created by the Lakers, Bulls, Houston! It's another championship-level team - the Utah Jazz! Karl Malone averaged 31.8 points, 10.9 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 2.1 steals, 1.2 blocks and 3.5 turnovers per game, leading the team to surpass Houston with a 54% shooting rate! Got the second regular season record in the West!
If February is Kobe's solo dance, then March is the show of Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant and Jordan. Among them, Kobe Bryant and Jordan have become the foils of Karl Malone! Although the Jazz's March schedule is relatively easy. This makes Malone's game far less difficult than Kobe Bryant and Jordan, but the record says it all!
Michael Jordan had 35.9 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 3.1 steals and 0.8 blocks in a single month, and Kobe Bryant averaged 28.9 points, 4.2 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 2.5 steals and 1.0 blocks per game in a single month.
The league presented the award of March Player of the Month to Karl Malone! The best team in March is the Utah Jazz, and the best player in March is Karl Malone!
The Utah Jazz's head-to-head lineup is far from the league's leading teams. Not to mention the Bulls and Lakers, the paper lineup of the Heat Big Three, Houston, and SuperSonics is also crushing the Jazz.
The Jazz are like the Pistons led by Grant Hill at the beginning of the season, relying on Karl Malone's single-handedness to climb up, surpassing one stronger opponent after another, and finally climbing to the second place!
What makes Malone stronger than Hill is that Hill's team record is getting worse and worse after being targeted, and now he can't even sit in the third place in the East. And Ma Long is getting stronger and stronger! The current Malone is able to play at a dominant level no matter how he targets. This season, Malone has played a unique performance at the power forward position, and he has thrown off Barkley, Wenbeck, and all the power forwards in the league.
Strong! Karl Malone leads the Utah Jazz like the first MVP of his career! He deserves the honor of the best of the month in March.
The Lakers have two more games against the Jazz in April, and these two games will be bloody!
The Lakers want to compete with the Bulls for the top spot in the league, and the Jazz want to win the Lakers.
In addition to Malone winning the title of March Month of the Month, Michael Jordan scored 58 points at the Boston Garden Arena and scored 17 points in the fourth quarter for the greatest individual heroism performance that also feasted the eyes of basketball fans.
Invincibility!
Is this the god of basketball?
When Jordan started the playoffs early in March, everyone found that Michael Jordan was still the No. 23 who couldn't solve it, as long as he wanted to score offensively, it seemed that no one could stop him. At the age of 34, his athleticism is slightly degraded from his peak, but he is still capable of crushing 95% of the league's players, and his skills are even more perfect.
Boston's bag for Jordan has never stopped from beginning to end, Jordan seems to be competing with Kobe Bryant, just don't pass the ball! Just do it yourself!
And he did! One person to destroy the team! In one day, both Jordan and Kobe Bryant single-handedly ruined a team.
On the other side, the Lakers defeated the SuperSonics, and Kobe's 9 three-pointers in the half were also sung!
The Strongest Three-Point Player in History? 》
"This rookie is a bit horizontal"
Playoffs Second Round Preview? Supersonic will be swept away? 》
and so on, and with the advent of an audio tape, it was finally pushed to a climax.
"See what happened to Peyton?"
"See."
"Never provoke Kobe!"
"You know what I mean, right? You young players may grow into All-Stars, grow into the backbone of the league, and you will have a wonderful future. But you have to realize one thing first, there are several players in the league who must not take the initiative to provoke, and Kobe Bryant is the most terrible one among them! ”
"If you provoke Olajuwon, he'll stun you and give you seven or eight blocks! If you provoke Jordan, he'll fly over your head for a dunk! ”
"But you never know! What will Kobe do when he is provoked! 60 points in three quarters? 9 three-pointers at halftime? From his claw you may know the lion! Kobe's anger is something you can't bear, at least don't do that until you're a superstar beyond Payton. ”
This is the internal training of an unknown young team in the American professional basketball.
When the recording of this discourse spread, the words in it were immediately written in the newspaper by the media reporters.
"Never Provoke Kobe Bryant - Senior Coach of American Professional Basketball"
The article was directly published in the headlines of major sports sections the next day, as an endorsement of Kobe's nine three-pointers in the half, and for a while, the Lakers and Kobe Bryant became the most watched presence in the league's spotlight.
With the fermentation of the media, Kobe Bryant's limelight suddenly overtook Karl Malone, who won the Player of the Month to lead the team to 13-1 in a single month, and overpowered Jordan, a Flyer Jordan who scored 58 points and 17 points in a single quarter.
And Kobe Bryant also received a call at this time.
"Are you back?" Nelson's call came as soon as Kobe Bryant returned to LA.
"I'm back."
"Okay, it's been in the limelight lately, let's use this limelight to promote your movie. I don't want my first film as a producer hit the streets! ”
"Don't worry, Jack. Have some confidence in our films. ”
"If I can get 10 million box office, I'll be satisfied!"
"10 million? Jack, what are you kidding, I'm going to exceed 100 million at the national box office this year. ”
"Hey, stinky boy, you don't know anything about movies! Do you know how many movies are there a year with a box office of over 100 million? I have been an actor for so many years, and I can count the movies with a box office of over 100 million on one hand. ”
Kobe Bryant smiled slightly, and everything was silent.