Chapter 663
"The crazy Spurs and Pacers have begun to shake off all the competitors behind them!"
"God and Buddha compete for hegemony, following the Demon Bird War, the NBA is likely to enter the situation of the two great powers again!"
As the schedule continues to advance, the Pacers who entered the Devil's schedule did not begin to fall behind as Philip Saunders expected, but ushered in one victory after another, whether it was the Nets or the Suns, or the Nuggets fell at the feet of the Pacers one after another, even if it was back-to-back away games, there was no way to stop the Pacers from moving forward, following the last 12 consecutive wins, the Pacers won a wave of 17 consecutive wins and 14 consecutive wins, Finished all of the games before the All-Star break with a 43-7 record.
Compared with the madness of the Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs are not inferior, in the 51 games before the All-Star break, the Spurs won 45 of them, with a 45-6 record to firmly press the Pacers under them, although the Spurs are not like the Pacers, more than a dozen consecutive wins, but the Spurs are no worse than the Pacers.
In the situation of the Spurs and Pacers, those competitors have begun to gradually fall behind, the closest to the Pacers and Spurs are the 40-10 Dallas Mavericks, and the 39-12 Detroit Pistons, as for the remaining Suns, Nets, Heat and other teams, have been lost nearly ten wins.
For the NBA, the two powerhouses will always have more new gravitational force than one standout, especially the Celtics and Lakers, which are the benchmark supported by the NBA league, after Magic Johnson and Big Bird Bird, David Stern has been looking for the next pair of "magic birds", even when Michael Jordan reigns in the world, David Stern has always wanted to create an opponent for Jordan, but it is a pity, whether it is Clyde Drexler, Neither Charles Barkley nor later Grant Hill nor Anfernee Hardaway could shake Jordan's throne, let alone achieve the same two-way battle as Magic's Johnson Big Bird Bird.
After Jordan retired, David Stern spared no effort to find Jordan's successor, and at the same time, he once again saw the hope of the two powers, the Spurs and the Lakers in those years of landslides and cracks, so that David Stern was excited, but after the excitement, David Stern also had some regrets, after all, whether it was the Spurs or the Lakers, they were both in the Western Conference, and such a two-power competition was far from reaching the heights that the Magic Bird Championship could achieve, after all, this is two teams that will never meet in the Finals.
It is precisely because of this that after Meng Xu visited the Pacers, David Stern spared no effort to build momentum for Meng Xu, hoping that Meng Xu could lead the Pacers to the Finals, whether it is the Spurs vs. the Pacers, or the Lakers vs. the Pacers, its influence will far exceed the two giants of the Spurs and the Lakers, and Meng Xu finally did not live up to David Stern's expectations, and the Pacers VS Lakers for two consecutive years made the NBA league make a lot of money, and even helped David Stern achieve the goal of NBA globalization.
But there are unforeseen circumstances, just when David Stern plans to continue to strengthen the support of the Pacers and the Lakers, and strive to create another pair of old enemies like the Lakers and the Celtics, the Lakers who were pinned on by David Stern fell apart overnight, and the Lakers after the separation of the OK combination could not even squeeze into the playoffs, and the angry David Stern could only give up the plan to support the Lakers.
However, the Spurs' championship last season gave David Stern hope again, with a gimmick like the "Wake Forest Two" civil war, the ratings and influence brought by the Spurs and Pacers' finals will definitely far exceed that of the Pacers and Lakers, so when Magic Johnson proposed the God and Buddha competition at the beginning of the season, David Stern instructed the NBA league to quickly follow up, using almost all resources to hype Meng Xu and Tim Duncan, and even did not hesitate to make some small moves behind his back, to help the Spurs and Pacers top the standings.
However, it is a little regrettable that just when the God and Buddha competition has become the mainstream of this season, Kobe Bryant jumped out to steal the show, although the Lakers' current 26-25 record can only barely rank eighth in the West, but who made Kobe Bryant's data this season so explosive, at the end of 51 games, Kobe Bryant averaged 36 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.8 assists per game, and was 6 points ahead of Arenas, who ranked second, in the scoring list.
On December 20, 2005, in the Lakers' game against the Dallas Mavericks, Kobe Bryant scored 62 points in three quarters, more than the Mavericks' total score of 61 points, but Kobe's performance was not over, in January 2006, 13 games, Kobe Bryant averaged an astonishing 43.4 points per game, and scored the third-highest 81 points in NBA history against the Raptors.
As a three-time scoring champion, the holder of the highest single-game scoring record in the playoffs and finals, and the owner of the second-highest scoring record in the regular season, Meng Xu's scoring ability is naturally unquestionable, and even before this season, Meng Xu's scoring ability is recognized as the league's active first, but with Kobe Bryant's birth this season, Meng Xu's title of the strongest scoring ability has also been challenged.
If Meng Xu could have suppressed Kobe Bryant with his super scoring ability as he did in previous seasons, as he did when he competed for the scoring title with Maddie Iverson, then naturally there would not be so much controversy, but Meng Xu's average points per game has fallen off a cliff this season, and Meng Xu, who was able to average 32 points per game last season and was crowned the scoring champion, has only 27 points per game this season.
However, for these discussions from the outside world, Meng Xu will not pay attention to it at all, three scoring champions are enough for Meng Xu, Meng Xu never thought of challenging Jordan's record of ten scoring titles, Meng Xu wants to challenge Jordan's record of only one record, that is, 6 championships, two consecutive championships.
Under Meng Xu's call and encouragement, the Pacers are now full of fighting spirit, so the current Pacers are more than one and a half stars stronger than last season, Jermaine O'Neal, N.N. Hilario, Tyshawn Prince, James Posey, their average data per game has increased to varying degrees compared with last season, Jermaine O'Neal averages 23 points, 12.5 rebounds, 2.9 blocks per game, Nn Hilario averages 12 points, 9 rebounds, 2 blocks, Tyshawn Prince averaged 15 points per game, and with his teammates so powerful, Meng Xu naturally let them share more of the burden on his body.