Chapter 869: The Rise of the Lakers and Durant's Comeback!

With all the NBA regular season awards awarded, the 2008-2009 NBA officially bid farewell to the topic of the regular season and completely entered the topic of the playoffs.

However, after the Supersonic eliminated the Spurs, Yes, O'Neal and Kobe Bryant jointly won the regular season MVP, the NBA hyped up a new topic.

"With the elimination of the Spurs, the recognized strongest team unexpectedly left the NBA, in the NBA this magical season will be an extremely interesting thing, now the NBA game has fully entered the rhythm of the playoffs, but in the previous game, there are three players who jointly won this season's All-Star MVP and regular season MVP, that is, yes, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal are likely to be the players who dominate this season with three MVPs!"

"In Yes's career, he had a dominant performance of three MVPs last season, and in O'Neal's career, he also had three MVPs in the '99-00 season, and only Kobe Bryant didn't achieve this feat among the three."

"In the history of the NBA, there are a total of four players who have achieved three MVPs in a single season, including Jordan twice, Yes once, O'Neal once, Willie Reed once, after this season, is Kobe Bryant the fifth player in NBA history to achieve three MVP achievements in a single season, or Yes or O'Neal becomes a player who rivals Jordan?"

"In All-Star and All-Star, yes, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal can share the MVP, but when it comes to the Finals, there really is only one MVP!"

The sudden rise of public opinion in the United States is a very, very interesting topic.

After the elimination of the Spurs, who were previously considered the biggest favorites to win the championship, the remaining team is undoubtedly the Heat.

But this public opinion that suddenly arose in the United States opened and closed its mouth and never mentioned James, and then thought of the one brought up by ESPN before, who was a cancer and who was an undercover agent? of the topic.

It is very, very obvious what the direction of public opinion is directed at this time in the United States.

For these media, whether it is Yes or O'Neal or Kobe, there is no problem for any of these three teams to win the championship, but the Heat will never be able to win the championship.

But the strength of the Heat team is the strongest of all the remaining teams, so even if they don't want to, the Heat have the best chance of winning the championship.

In that case, let's target this pretentious team first.

If you can break the mentality of this team, it is naturally the best, but it really can't ......

If it doesn't work, there's no way, they can't replace Yes, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal to play, right?

When the major awards of the NBA began to be awarded, the first round of the NBA ended, and at the same time, the second round of the NBA, the division semifinals, actually took the lead in a few games.

The Mavericks' match against the SuperSonics on May 4 is already the latest of the four matchups in the second round.

Prior to that, the first three of the other three matches of the divisional semi-finals had been played.

The first game of the second round of the divisional semifinals is the Lakers' home game and the Nuggets, after the Spurs were eliminated, the Lakers and the Nuggets automatically became the two biggest favorites, as for the Mavericks and the SuperSonic, the black spots on the Mavericks and Nowitzki have not been washed off at all, and the SuperSonic, although the Supersonic unexpectedly defeated the strongest Spurs with Yes's supernatural performance in the Spurs, but people always like miracles from the bottom of their hearts and don't believe that miracles will happen all the time.

So from the point of view, the Lakers and Nuggets are more representative of the West to challenge the East.

And the Lakers and Nuggets do see themselves as natural representatives of the West.

So much so that in this game between the Lakers and the Nuggets at home, the two teams really played with sparks, which was extremely exciting!

The Nuggets who are fighting away will take the lead as soon as they come up, Anthony shot 7 in the first quarter and scored 16 points in a single quarter, the Nuggets led the Lakers by 8 points in the first quarter, and in the second quarter, the situation immediately changed, this quarter, Kobe Bryant performed even better, 10 points in a single quarter, but what is more outstanding is the overall strength of the Lakers, in this quarter, Kidd, Zach Randolph, Bynum, Artest, Ariza, Fisher, Batum, Turkglou and other nine people scored, In one fell swoop, Anthony's eight-point advantage in the first quarter was erased, and he also led by one point at halftime.

The style of both teams can be seen in the first half of the game between the Lakers and the Nuggets.

The Nuggets were Anthony as a battering ram.

The Lakers are Kobe Bryant as a sharp knife, but there are a bunch of machetes next to it!

The Nuggets have a lot of machetes, and Billups and Hamilton are also doing well, but it's mainly Anthony.

This game is indeed the tone, the two teams have been biting the score until the last two minutes, and even because Anthony is really in good form in this game, the Nuggets are still the one who has been leading.

But with two minutes left in the game, when both teams were almost exhausted, it was Kobe Bryant's stage.

In the last two minutes, Kobe Bryant bombarded all eight points of the Lakers, and on the other side, Anthony, who had already hit forty points in front, did not score a point in the last two minutes, tired, really tired, Artest, Batum, Ariza, Zach Randolph...... The terrifying front line of the Lakers, that really grinds Anthony to vomit!

In this group of Lakers forwards, Anthony was stunned to score 40 points, which is really amazing.

And the final result was that it was Billups and Hamilton who were actually competing against Kobe Bryant in the end......

The three of them are really old rivals.

In the end, Bryant won 8-6 against the combination of Billups and Hamilton.

The Lakers also ended up beating the Nuggets 105-103 at home.

In this game, Kobe Bryant and Anthony both scored 40 points.

The performance of both men is worthy of the name of supergiant.

But the overall gap between the two teams made Anthony, who had 20 shots for 40 points, lose to Kobe, who had 28 shots for 40 points......

At the same time, this contest, which to some extent determines who is the strongest team in the West, has shown the world the gap between the Nuggets and the Lakers.

The thickness of the Nuggets' roster is already very high, but it is still too thin compared to the Lakers.

Especially at the front, the Nuggets couldn't find a backup for Anthony......

The Nuggets' front, except for Anthony, the other players are in front of Artest, Batum, Ariza, and Turkeglu, no joke, that's what they send......

Even if Anthony has no physical strength, he has to stay on the court, otherwise the Nuggets will collapse.

Anthony's physical strength is actually not bad, and he was finally dragged down by the Lakers.

It was also after this game that the Lakers' odds to win the championship surpassed all teams except the Heat in one fell swoop, and they had the momentum to replace the Spurs' Western dominance.

Compared to the Martian matchup that started first in the West, the first game of the two groups in the East was lackluster.

The Cavaliers comfortably defeated the Arenas-led Wizards 118-101 at home.

The Wizards can win the Magic, and that's because Arenas exploded the Magic's outside line more ruthlessly than Howard's inside shot the Wizards.

That doesn't mean the Wizards' interior is holding the Magic's Howard.

The Wizards' weak interior line, even Howard can't hold it.

Can you keep O'Neill?

And how can the outside of the Cavaliers be compared to the Magic, although Deron Williams can't defend Arenas, but he can have a great impact.

It can be said that the game between the Cavaliers and the Wizards played half time, and there was no suspense.

Arenas is also really unlucky, the Wizards have been able to go so far in the playoffs in recent seasons, it is really all up to Arenas, and in the playoffs, the Wizards really don't have a reliable helper.

It's also really a loss that Arenas can give up the temptation to go to the Grizzlies last summer.

The game between the Celtics and the Heat was not as one-sided as the Cavaliers and Wizards.

But it's pretty much the same.

In the Celtics' away game against the Heat, the Celtics trailed by 15 points in the first half, 36-51.

The Celtics are a veteran team, slow heat, and more importantly, the Celtics are built with the goal of supersounds, and they really didn't expect such a shameless team to suddenly appear in the East.

After the Celtics started this game, they really felt the constraints in all directions.

At the end of the half, in addition to Ray Allen teaching his junior brother Ben Gordon, Garnett won Chris Bosh slightly, although James was still a bit undercover in this game, but the defensive end also fought Pierce, the most important thing is the duel between Wade and Byron Davis, the strength is worthy of Byron Davis, and the speed explosion is all above Byron Davis's Wade, not only did Byron Davis not score a point in the first half, 4 shots 0 hits, and he also shot 9 out of 11 and scored 23 points.

"Yes yesterday's game didn't stimulate James, but it stimulated Wade......"

According to the trend of the first half of this game, if it weren't for James going undercover on the offensive end in the second half, shooting 1 of 6 in the fourth quarter, I'm afraid the Heat would have closed this game a long time ago, of course, although James inexplicably went undercover on the offensive end, which made the Heat close the game with some twists and turns, but Wade scored another 13 points in the fourth quarter to stabilize the victory of the game.

This round of matchup between the Celtics and the Heat should have been a strong conversation, but as long as they watched the game and saw James undercover, the Celtics couldn't win against the Heat, and most people wouldn't have much confidence in the Celtics beating the Heat.

"Heat fans always thought that James was the biggest thigh before the start of the season, but they didn't expect the Heat to be Wade the most reliable in the end."

"James doesn't feel like he's going to play after that five-double night, James won't be like Durant, he's all gone, right?"

"Durant is scrapped because of injury, this is force majeure, James is scrapped, it's really embarrassing, and his mentality is so unbalanced that he can't play."

The game against the Celtics made James's already not so much prestige fall again.

In the face of these doubts, James remained silent.

The Pistons are used to develop a new offensive rhythm, and the Celtics are used to hone their new game rhythm, offensive rhythm!

There's no team in the East better suited to hone their skills than the Celtics!

As for the controversy?

As long as you beat Yes or win the championship, everything will come back!

As for whether the team can beat the Celtics and move on?

"I am fortunate to have suffered from Wynn first......"

Anyway, before I practiced, I was an undercover agent, what about you!

James, who let go of all his baggage, felt unusually relaxed.

On the other side, Durant, who is also under great pressure, is not so easy.

Durant's game form still hasn't returned.

I haven't played for a year, I haven't played an official game, and my body has changed dramatically, so I can't get back to the game just by relying on training matches and intra-team confrontations.

Durant was depressed.

Even though Yes told him, their stage was far away.

However, he didn't want to be a burden to Yes, and he was carried to the stage in front of Yes like everyone else!

He's going to take center stage side by side with Yes!

The game with the Mavericks is imminent, and Durant's game form is still not there.

But Nelson Sr. and Yes could only start Durant in the game against the Mavericks.

Ibaka's current defense against the Spurs' less fancy offensive players, making him run, making him jump, making him work without skill, that's really working.

But Ibaka's current defense has proven himself in the regular season as he is the culprit behind the SuperSonics being swept by the Mavericks in the regular season.

Nowitzki, Kwame Brown, Afraro, Josh Howard, Monta Alice, Jason Terry......

It's really not the same for each one to play Ibaka.

Compared with Ibaka's current immature single defense, Durant's defensive advantage is one-on-one heads-up!

When Durant was criticized for his lack of concentration last season, his one-on-one heads-up defense was still above the standard.

Durant isn't very good at offense right now, but his defense can at least keep the SuperSonics from collapsing.

It's no secret that Durant is in the right place, and those reporters next to the supersonic training ground are eager to update Durant's status every minute.

They may be more anxious than supersonic fans.

Supersonic fans feel that the superSonics have made a lot of money by advancing to the second round.

I thought I would be swept out by the Spurs, but now I have reached the second round.

What more could you ask for?

Now it's so difficult to meet the team's nemesis, and the team's two small forwards.

Nothing more asked.

But that's not what these reporters think.

It's all past the Spurs, it's all come this far.

The opponent is still a calf that they despise very much, and if they don't move forward, they are really unwilling!

What's more.

"Yes If it is eliminated, how much less traffic will be lost after this year's playoffs?"

Compared with unwillingness, what makes them more distressed is the lost traffic.

Compared with these reporters, the experts in the United States are much calmer.

Before the start of the first game between the Mavericks and the Hypersonics, ESPN routinely organized a vote of 100 experts, and sure enough, only two out of ten supported the Hypersonics.

"Hypersonic has two out of ten expert support, one out of ten for Yes, and one out of ten for not supporting Nowitzki."

This round of the series between the Mavericks and the SuperSonics has a big advantage in all respects.

But until the last minute before the start of the game.

Maverick Carlisle, head coach Rick Carlisle, is cautious.

"Yes is the greatest player in the NBA, KD is also a very good player, the SuperSonics have a lot of quality young players, and hopefully it will be a very good game."

Regardless of whether Rick Carlisle and Maverick thought so in their hearts, they at least said so.