Chapter 526: Equalization

Although Wang Lei missed the All-Star Game and also missed the opportunity to be the head coach of the All-Star Game West, in this year's All-Star Game, Turgun won the MVP title of the All-Star Game with a performance of 36 points and 15 assists.

As we enter 2022, Blair has gradually relinquished his shots, and more have begun to support Turgun and Salish to score more points.

Blair was ready to live in Sau, and with his fitness declining, he couldn't attack the basket as hard as he used to, so he started to increase his playmaking passes and began to develop a new successor for the team.

Turgun is undoubtedly the successor to the captain that Blair and many Runners management have been optimistic about, although this guy usually doesn't talk much, but he is the most tenacious player in the team, which is recognized by the Runners, and Turgun is also capable enough to gain everyone's approval, so he should have no objection to becoming the captain of the team in the future.

Of course, this is something to be discussed later.

In this All-Star Game three-point contest, Turgun once again won the three-point king, but after participating in this time, he said that he will not participate in the future, he has set up a monument for the latecomers, even he himself can not be surpassed under the current system, it is meaningless to continue to participate, unless the league changes the three-point contest format in the future.

In the All-Star Game, although many stars did not want Turgun to win the MVP, Blair contacted many friends to support Turgon, and finally Turgun won the MVP of the All-Star Game.

Wang Lei didn't come back until shortly after the All-Star break, and as soon as he came back, he led the team to a big victory over the Celtics, sweeping away the team's decline after the All-Star Game, and then the Runners continued to embark on the journey of hitting the best record in the league's regular season history.

After the All-Star break, the teams in the league began to enter the sprint stage, the Runners on the West side were on the top of the list, and the other teams could only compete for the second to eighth spots, while the East side was much more lively.

The top four teams in the East after the All-Star break are only one win separating each other, which makes the playoffs extremely chaotic in the East.

Often the Wizards are still No. 1 today, and tomorrow they will be the Celtics, and biting so hard has also made the regular season in the East much more intense.

This season, many teams have introduced outside pitchers, which increases the spectacle of the game, after all, the addition of pitchers has enriched the tactics of many teams, and at the same time, the interior defense has gradually weakened, so many wonderful goals have appeared, unlike before, when a player just entered the interior line, and then was surrounded by a bunch of people, and could not attack the basket at all.

The league's management is optimistic about the changes in the teams, and although the polarization of the league's teams has become more severe, the attention of the league as a whole has also increased as the spectacle of the game has increased.

It is likely that the league will increase the broadcast share of each team's game next season, as the league has publicly stated that the league's game broadcast fee will increase next season.

The Runners regained their form from the start of the season after beating the Celtics by a big score, and they went on to seal their sixtieth win of the season with a ten-game winning streak.

As the first team in the league to reach 60 wins this season, the Runners have already qualified for the playoffs ahead of schedule, and even the top four in the West, and it will be up to the Runners to break the league's best regular season record of 69 wins.

The Runners are now fifteen games away from finishing their eighty-two games, and they only need to win 10 of those games to become the first team in league history to win 70 in the regular season.

In these fifteen games for the Runners, probably only the Heat and the Wizards can give the Runners some trouble, and the other thirteen games The Runners' opponents are all middle and lower teams in the league.

On the second day of their sixtieth win, the returning Runners beat the Toronto Raptors 121-96, bringing their winning streak to 11.

The Raptors, who performed well in the East this season, became a worm in front of the Runners, although they scored 96 points in the whole game, they were nearly 40 points behind the Runners at most, and the entire fourth quarter of the game was garbage time.

After that, the Runners defeated the Knicks, Hornets, Warriors, Timberwolves and other league-rich teams one after another, increasing their winning streak to 15 games again.

It also leaves the Runners with four games left to win 69.

However, at this time, the Runners suffered another defeat.

Wang Lei still rotates personnel according to the routine, after all, the playoffs are just around the corner, and he must make everyone on the team adjust to their condition.

As a result, the Runners, who were playing at home, faced the Jazz, who were ninth in the West and were trying to finish in the top eight, but could not win against their opponents.

The Jazz didn't play very well in this game, but they did a very good job defensively, and the Jazz's rookie Levins limited Sallich's play, which made the Runners' only tandem of the day useless.

101-94, the Jazz relied on such a victory to finally squeeze into the top eight, and they squeezed out of the top eight by the Trail Blazers, who were still a strong team last season.

However, such a defeat was only an occasional nap for the mighty runners, who immediately woke up after a slight squint.

With another three-game winning streak, the Runners finally got to the top of the regular season record set in the early '80s.

The Runners' 77th regular-season game of the season is also the one they are on the verge of tying their all-time best against the Indiana Pacers.

Facing the Pacers, who are still in the middle of the pack this season, the Runners did not give their opponents any chances, and from the beginning of the game, the Runners relied on strong control to control the pace of the game, and at halftime, the Runners led the Pacers by 17 points.

In the third quarter, Turgun blew the clarion call for the Runners to tie the all-time best with a three-pointer.

Throughout the third quarter, the Runners scored 46 points to stretch the gap between the two teams to 36 points.

The Pacers were also very single, and they simply dropped the fourth quarter of the game, declaring that the Runners tied the existing league's best regular season record.