On December 30, the Lakers defeated the underdog Rockets 114-90 at home, winning 27 victories.

After Olajuwon left, the Rockets lost their axis on the inside, relying on blue-collar Kevin Cato to play the starter, and the offense mainly played two shots in the backcourt.

Catino Mobley averaged 22 points, 4 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals in 42 minutes per game while shooting 44 percent from the field and 39.5 percent from three-point range.

Steve Francis averaged 21.5 points, 7 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 1.2 steals in 41 minutes per game while shooting 41.7 percent from the field and 32.4 percent from three-point range.

At first glance, these two people are very powerful, and the offensive firepower is good, but in fact, it is the game method of "shooting birds indiscriminately", and the Rockets basically have no tactics, with 9 wins and 22 losses in the opening game, and there is no hope of entering the playoffs at all.

Mobley averaged two three-pointers per game, was sure to catch the ball, and was not bad in terms of efficiency.

Francis was completely unqualified as the core, not only did he have poor shooting selection, a low shooting percentage, and he also averaged 4 turnovers per game.

The Rockets' even lower shooting percentage is this year's No. 7 pick, Eddie Griffin, who shoots 36.4 percent from the field and averages 8.8 points from nine shots per game, which is a tragedy compared to Richard Jefferson, who swapped clubs with him.

This time, the Western Conference's Player of the Month of the Month is O'Neal, who averages 24 points and 10 rebounds per game, which is the most consistent with the Lakers.

Entering 2002, the Lakers' opponents in January were almost all underdogs, and they continued their winning streak, reaching a staggering 32 consecutive wins after beating the Pacers on January 9.

The opponent in Game 33 was the Timberwolves, and the media was ready to announce that the Lakers tied the all-time winning streak.

Unexpectedly, the Lakers fell behind at the beginning, trailing by 17 points at halftime. Guo Xu and Kobe Bryant became blacksmiths, the Lakers' role players were out of order, and after the Timberwolves veteran Trill Brandon was sidelined, the team did a great job on both ends of the floor.

Minnesota players want to win, play proactively, Alaskan dogs don't wield, you and I are a husky!

Billups played Brandon off the bench for a long time, wore out all the edges and corners on his body, played a lot more steadily, organized the offense well, and shot 4 three-pointers himself.

It's a pity that Billups is a heavy defender, and the chasing speed is not fast enough, and he still has weaknesses in dealing with Guo Xu. Guo Xu hit three three-pointers in the final quarter, including a tie-breaking three-pointer with 11.3 seconds, to send the game into overtime, 120-120.

In overtime, Nesterovic left the court with six fouls, O'Neal scored four points in a row, and assisted Jim Jackson to hit a three-pointer to establish a 7-0 advantage.

The Lakers defeated the Timberwolves 131-126 in the final game, tying the all-time record with 33 consecutive wins.

The Lakers' 34th opponent is the Wizards.

The Wizards are weak, and it's normal that they can't beat the Lakers, but they have Michael Jordan on the team, which is more embarrassing.

This is Jordan's second comeback, and when he announced that he would donate his entire annual salary of $1 million in his first season to the American people who suffered 911 trauma, it caused a huge stir in the sports world and the entire American society.

Moreover, Jordan did not choose the Bulls, but the Wizards, the team in Washington, the capital of the United States! This choice has been called a "political" one!

It's a pity that now it seems that it was a wrong decision to let Jordan step down from the "altar" and become a mortal.

Jordan's first retirement was willful, because he was already in a high place; His first comeback was a long-awaited comeback that saved the sluggish NBA.

That comeback not only did not make Jordan's popularity decline, but also pushed him to a whole new level, after all, at the age of 33, he only started his second triple championship, and such a miracle is difficult to replicate.

And this time he made a comeback, Jordan was not for the championship, but for personal interests.

After Jordan retired in 1998, he was not short of money to spend, his salary reached 30 million in the last two years, and his sneakers also brought him a huge income. However, Jordan was not satisfied and wanted to take a stake in the Bulls, but the management of the Bulls had already had a conflict with Jordan, so he had to choose the Wizards.

Before his comeback, Jordan was the general manager of the Wizards, owning 5%-10% of the team, and fans in Washington bought it at first, thinking that they could see Jordan by buying a ticket, but it was different after they realized that they could only see Jordan sitting in the top box smoking a cigar for money. In the 2000-01 season, the Wizards had the league's lowest ticket sales.

The league rules that players can't own a stake in the team, so Jordan decided to follow the example of 1996's "Magic."

Johnson also made a brief comeback in the 1995-96 season, when he agreed with Lakers owner Buss to sell his shares to Buss first, and when it came time to retire, he could buy back the shares from Buss at the original price.

So Jordan also reached a verbal agreement with Wizards owner Abel Pauline, he sold his shares, used his comeback to attract attendance, and then bought back the shares at the original price when he retired in the future.

In Guo Xu's previous life, it turned out that Jordan's appeal was really strong, and the Wizards' ticket sales immediately increased after his comeback.

However, when Jordan retired again in 2003, owner Pauline regretted not returning the shares to Jordan, and tore his face and drove Jordan away like the Bulls back then, and no longer let him participate in any Wizards management.

Jordan was not angry with cerebral infarction or heart attack, all thanks to his super physical fitness.

What's worse is that Jordan is no longer the omnipotent "god" in the hearts of fans. People found that Jordan, who had always been deified, would also be old and tired, which was completely inconsistent with psychological expectations. Many fans didn't even bother to vote for Jordan in the All-Star Game, and he can still be a starter in the East this year, but he can only be a substitute when he is popular in the West.

The goal of the Wizards in the new season is only to impact the playoffs, and except for Jordan and Hamilton, the Wizards have no stars who can get their hands on it. Their sixth man this season turned out to be Tyrone Lue, which shows the potential of this team.

Tyrone Lue's performance was expected, and it was good for the Wizards to feel that the base salary had been picked up, and he averaged 8 points and 3.5 assists in 20.5 minutes per game.

But the Wizards' No. 1 pick, Kwame Brown, was too disappointing, averaging just 15 minutes per game and five points and 3.5 rebounds. He's just a defensive blue-collar guy who gets scolded a lot by Jordan.

After the start of the game, Guo Xu served as a substitute, and Fisher passed the ball to the front court, and the biggest attraction was the confrontation between Jordan and Kobe.

Both of them are very active in defense and constantly get entangled in close quarters, but the difference in the strength of their teammates on both sides is too big, and this is not destined to be a dragon fight.

Kobe Bryant can't break through and can pass, Jordan can't break through, and there are too few options to pass the ball.

O'Neal quickly became the star of the game, single-handing Jahidi White to score back-to-back points.

Jahidi is a strange player, 206CM tall and weighs 132kg, he can resist O'Neal, but his height is completely unable to prevent O'Neal from turning and shooting.

The Lakers led by 10 points in the single quarter, and Guo Xu took the bench in the second quarter, and a wave of 13-2 widened the score, and Tyrone Lue was killed by him. On the offensive end, Guo Xu blocked and dismantled, leaving Tyrone Lue and Heywood with little to do.

Without any suspense, the Lakers stepped on Jordan to set a new all-time record - 34 consecutive wins!

Bryant had a triple-double, with 20 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists; O'Neill and Guo Xu cut 20+ respectively.

The Lakers have broken all of the league's record records in those two seasons, and their playoff record is even less likely to be broken, at best, because they won all of them.

After the game, the news media unanimously recognized that the Lakers have the strongest Big Three in NBA history and are the strongest team in history.