For seven days after Christmas, Westerners celebrate. Until the new year comes, most people can rest at home without having to work.

But for professional footballers, they are not entitled to seven days off. Unless, these guys don't want jobs.

One day after Christmas, the Mavericks were immediately back into the ongoing season of intense action. As always, Mayo has been a mess in training after returning from Christmas, and God knows how many hours he slept during those two days of vacation combined.

But now for Mayo's ups and downs, everyone on the Mavericks has become accustomed to it. Carlisle has decided to put Carter back in the starting line-up, with Mayo coming off the bench. If Mayo happens to play well, Carlisle will let him play a little longer. If Mayo didn't play well that day, Carlisle wouldn't have trusted him as much as he did before.

In just two months, Mayo has gone from being the team's leading scorer to a dispensable X-factor. This Dallas calf always belongs to Yiyang.

In their first game after Christmas, the Mavericks bumped into their old rival, the Oklahoma City Thunder. In the playoffs last season, the Mavericks were swept away by the Thunder. In the regular season this year, the Mavericks also lost more than they won against the Thunder.

However, because Yiyang had just scored 62 points in the last game, the Thunder team was still a little afraid of the Mavericks tonight.

In today's game, Nowitzki, who has just returned from injury, is still in bad shape. When Mayo came off the bench, he didn't do much. As a result, Yiyang once again naturally became the Mavericks' first scoring point.

In the second quarter of the game, Carlisle was replaced by Darren. Collison and Yiyang are paired with the back line. In this way, Collison has become a pure No. 1 position, while Yiyang is only responsible for interspersing running positions and scoring points.

"He's a plug-and-play all-around defender who can help his partner score and convert his team-mate's passes into assists as a scoring point. The term double guard may be redefined! If he can't do it to this extent, he doesn't deserve to be called a double guard! ”

The perfect blend of Yiyang and Collison is also the reason why Cuban is eager to get DeLong this summer. Yiyang can switch between attacker and playmaker with ease, and anyone who partners with him can achieve good results. But now Cuban knows that chasing big names is not the way to success. I must think carefully about the reinforcements next summer.

After Carlisle let Collison take control of the ball, the fans saw the unbelievable. Durant, the scoring champion, actually went back and forth with Yiyang on the court!

Durant relied on his height advantage to hit a jumper on Marion's head, and Yiyang was able to break through Sefrosa on the offensive end and score a layup. Durant made a foul in the restricted area and hit a three-pointer, and Yiyang was also able to put Perkins in foul trouble in the Thunder's three-second zone.

Previously, it was known that Yiyang was a playmaker with good scoring ability. Now Yiyang has made everyone understand that he is not just good at scoring. If Yiyang completely turns on the scoring mode, he will be an existence that can compete with the scoring champion!

In the end, Durant scored a team-high 42 points. But the Thunder still lost, and Westbrook shot just 35 percent, making Durant the air slash king today.

Yiyang only had 4 assists in the account today, and that was because the tasks of the organization were handed over to Collison. 44 points, 46% shooting. Yiyang used his excellent scoring performance to help the Mavericks narrowly defeat the Thunder by 4 points!

In the game with Durant against Biao, Yiyang actually won. There is no doubt that Yiyang's hotness will continue to rise. After 62 points, he scored 44 points, and people's impression of Du Yiyang has long gone beyond the category of "that kid passes the ball well".

However, Yiyang's performance didn't end there. One day after the victory over the Thunder, the Mavericks will travel back-to-back to the Denver Plateau to take on the Nuggets, who have had a good season this season.

Due to Denver's highland terrain, many players don't get used to the thin air quickly. Coupled with the Nuggets' "track and field" style of play this season, it is likely that the Mavericks, who are fighting back-to-back, will be difficult to deal with. As a result, experts agree that the Mavericks' three-game winning streak is coming to an end in Denver.

As it turned out, the forecasts of experts were not unreasonable. Nowitzki's performance of missing all four shots in the first quarter of the game is the best proof of their statement. Mayo seemed to have regained some energy today and was able to help occasionally on the offensive end. But his help was nothing in the Nuggets' tidal offensive.

After halftime, the Nuggets returned to the locker room with a 15-point lead. Nuggets center Javier. When McGee midfielder was interviewed by reporters, he even said that they may rotate widely in the second half to allow more people to get the opportunity to practice.

However, McGee seems to have forgotten that basketball is a 48-minute duel. Now, the game is far from over.

In the second half, the desperate Yiyang stood up again. Instead of racing against the athletic Nuggets, he calmed down and looked for opportunities beyond the three-point line.

Great. Lawson will be 1.8 meters tall when he puts on his shoes, making it very difficult for him to defend Yiyang's shots. In the third quarter of the game, Yiyang was full of firepower outside the three-point line and helped the team close the 15-point gap in one fell swoop.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Nuggets, who were already in control, felt desperate. Yiyang's three-point firepower was still ferocious, and the Jazz team went from leading to falling behind in an instant. They gritted their teeth, just to eat the score and not let Yiyang take away the game in waves.

However, in the last minute, the Nuggets still collapsed. Yiyang's scoring ability makes the Nuggets' huge advantage in athleticism meaningless. Iguodala fought desperately to score two points inside, and Yiyang was able to return a three-pointer after receiving a pass from Collison through a run off the ball.

came and went, and the score difference was gradually widened. By the time the Nuggets reacted, they were already trailing the Mavericks by 12 points.

Yiyang scored 39 points, 7 of 11 three-pointers, and the Mavericks defeated the Nuggets 106-94, bulldozing the Denver Plateau, and won four in a row!

So far, Yiyang has scored more than 30 points in 3 consecutive games. Among them, one is 60+, one is 40+, and one is 40 with 1 point left. Yiyang's performance made a wonderful thing happen to the NBA.

In the MVP rankings, Yiyang, who was not in the top five, continues to rise in the rankings, and is now ranked as the fourth candidate!

"I've been on a lot lately, and if he can keep this performance until the end of the season, I'm sure the MVP will have a part of him!"

"It's true that this season's performance is no worse than that of Rose in '11, or even better. The only thing that prevented him from winning the MVP was the Mavericks' not-so-stellar record. This is also something that can't be helped, the Mavericks' roster is not strong enough this season, but it's hard to say whether the Mavericks' record will bottom out in the second half of the season. ”

"Now that the Mavericks are on a four-game winning streak, they've gotten rid of Mayo. I wouldn't be surprised if the Mavericks make a leap forward in the second half of the season. ”

"There's Derek. Rose is up front, and I wouldn't be surprised if he also lifted the MVP trophy. After all, he was good enough. Of course, the premise is that this performance must be maintained. ”

Outside the world, the topic of whether Yiyang will win the MVP trophy has been hot. This "sudden" appearance of the superstar caught fans and experts off guard.

In the last game of 2012, the Mavericks and Spurs met again. In this game, Popovich did not let Yiyang score another 62 points, nor did he let the Mavericks win the game again.

But Yiyang continued his performance of 30+ consecutive points. 35 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds and 2 steals, although the Mavericks lost, even Popovich admitted after the game that Yiyang played another perfect game. The distance is perfect, and it is just one victory away.

As we entered January, Nowitzki's form began to pick up. Yiyang's assists also began to slowly move closer to double digits.

On Jan. 7, the Mavericks challenged the Jazz on the road, and Nowitzki scored 20 points for the first time this season. Yiyang posted 32 points and 10 assists, and the two worked together to help the team defeat the Jazz and end the team's recent two-game losing streak.

A week later, the Mavericks played the Grizzlies at home. In this game, Mayo has been automatically ignored. The story of his revenge on his old club is no longer of interest.

Nowitzki stayed on today, finishing with 17 points and six rebounds. The Grizzlies lost by 20 points.

Nowitzki's 17 points naturally won't let the Grizzlies lose so badly. The reason why this game lost suspense early was because Yiyang maintained his performance of scoring 30+ points in a row. And the detailed number of Yiyang's score today is 52!

"This guy has gone crazy, and when Dirk's form is seriously declining and the team has no one else to step up, he also used a 52-point performance to lead the team to victory! If it weren't for the fact that he didn't play in the entire fourth quarter, he would probably have scored another 60 or even 70 points today! ”

Mike. Brin couldn't believe his eyes anymore, and Yiyang's changes over the past few years were so great that the entire alliance couldn't react.

One 60+, one 50+. It's not like no one in the NBA has ever put up such a statistic in a season, but Yiyang, as a passer, was able to immediately carry the Mavericks' scoring responsibilities, which really surprised the commentators.

After this game, Yiyang successfully surpassed Paul in the MVP rankings and rose to third in the rankings. Before him, he was the youngest scoring champion Durant and LeBron who led the Heat to the next championship trophy. James!

Whether Yiyang can break through the domination of Durant and James and get an MVP trophy has become the biggest suspense for the Mavericks this season!

Over the past four years, LeBron. James has won the MVP trophy three times. The only time he failed to win the award was when he was "snatched of love" by Rose. The appearance of Rose made James unable to complete the great feat of 3 consecutive MVPs.

Maybe this year, another magical young man will step in James's path to godhood?

With three months to go before the regular season ends, anything can happen......