For James Hart, he's been living with anxiety for the last year.

Since last season's Eastern Conference Finals elimination by the Heat, James Hart has become a recognized top star, but he is no longer the "pride of the sky" in the mouth of the media and fans.

Although James has relied on his outstanding ability and self-discipline to set new age records in the league one after another, compared to last season's standout, he now has more chasers and even leaders around him.

James Hart has been compared to Dwyane Wall since he was eliminated from the Eastern Conference Finals by the Heat last season, and the competition between the two rookies in the same class, although playing slightly differently, is seen by many as a rivalry between the best of the league's new generation of players.

Entering the new season, the Wizards have been very aggressive in recruiting and the Heat have quickly completed a second rebuild, bringing in more young players and perimeter players than the Wizards.

The two teams are only two wins separating themselves from each other, and while the Wizards have a slight lead, Dwyane Wall has beaten James Hart in terms of stats.

The Wizards have played the Heat three times this season, with James Hart trailing 1-2, and the Wizards and the Heat are in the league's Southeast Division, and they are also the only two contenders for the top spot in the Southeast Division.

In the three meetings between the two teams, James Hart won both games with personal data and lost, while the one with personal data was won, which made James Hart ridiculed by many Eastern media as "ruining teammates" or "ruining the team".

It is precisely because of the fierce competition between the Wizards and the Heat that the East has brought new changes.

However, the media in the East will be very sensitive to hide all the words about the Runners when hyping James Hart and Dwyane Wall, because once they mention it, they have to remind people of the team that is making the whole league tremble right now, and the young players in this team.

Contrary to the Eastern media's hype of James Hart and Dwyane Wall, the Western media must mention the Runners and the young players of the Runners whenever they talk about these two players, because all the media and fans in the West know that the Runners and their young players are the mountains that weigh on the heads of James Hart and Dwyane Wall.

Turgun, who tops the scoring and assists rankings, is a young player for the Runners.

Elvin Butler, who tops the rebounding charts, is also a young player for the Runners.

Francis Leonardo, who occupies the third place in the steals list, is still a young player for the Runners.

And Stephen Chambers, who occupies the top spot on the bench efficiency list, is still a young player for the Runners.

Faced with such a list, the media in the East chose to plunge their heads into the sand and pretend to be ostriches, while James Hart and Dwyane Wall himself had the opposite attitude.

Whenever the media mentioned the names of the Runners and Turgun in front of the two of them, James always talked about him left and right, and did not respond directly to reporters' questions, he was learning from many media outlets in the East.

Dwyane Wall, on the other hand, will be much more open, frowning slightly and describing the characteristics of the Runners players in his own words, while also congratulating the Runners and their players on their accomplishments.

In contrast, many fans have begun to like the upright Dwyane Wall.

This time, though, James Hart and Dwyane Wall were in the same mood again, because after the Runners' historic 69th win, their next opponent was James Hart's Wizards, and the Runners' last opponent in the regular season this season was Dwyane Wall's Miami Heat.

This has to be said to be another rather dramatic scene in the league this season after the Runners stepped on the corpse of the Lakers to create a magical new winning streak.

The league management was dumbfounded by such a dramatic scene, even if they wanted to control it, they couldn't control such a coincidence.

After tying the 69-win record, every victory of the Runners is a breakthrough and a new achievement in history, and becoming the first team in history to reach 70 wins is the goal of the Runners, and if they are stepping on the latecomers who are catching up, it is undoubtedly another layer of symbolism.

As for the last game of the season, the Runners naturally have to start and finish well, no matter who their opponent is, the Runners will definitely go all out, and the Heat is precisely the opponent of the Runners in the Finals last season, which is equivalent to allowing the Runners to draw a more perfect end to their already perfect regular season, and whether it is the Wizards or the Heat, they are all teams that are likely to enter the Finals. This means that the Runners' match against them is likely to be a rehearsal for the Grand Finals.

So after the Runners tied the all-time best of 69 wins, the league began to hype up these two games, and at the same time, the playoff situation in the East entered the most competitive stage.

James Hart's dysfunctional performance in the previous game of this important game against the Runners led to a 109-112 three-point loss to the underdog Warriors, which gave the Heat a good chance to catch up, and the Heat did not miss this opportunity, narrowing the difference between the two teams to one game.

On the other hand, the Celtics also maintained a good state, defeating the incoming Grizzlies and tying the number of games won with the Wizards, according to the win-loss relationship, the Celtics surpassed the Wizards to become the first in the East, the Wizards ranked second, and the Heat ranked third.

The Pistons have not changed much from last season, still one win behind the Heat in fourth place, and the battle for the Eastern Conference playoff standings has completely entered a white-hot state.

Compared with the chaos in the East, the West is much clearer, which also shows that the polarization in the West is extremely serious, and the Runners are already as many as four wins ahead of the Lakers in second place at this time, which means that they have locked the top spot in the West and the top spot in the league regular season in advance.

The Lakers are firmly in second place, the Grizzlies are two games behind in third place, and the Thunder Rising is in fourth place, followed by the Rockets, Mavericks, Spurs and Jazz.

However, the Jazz, who are eighth in the West, have only one win more than the Trail Blazers in ninth place, and it is still unclear who will be the team to participate in the playoffs, but it is possible to conclude that no matter who is eighth in the West, their playoffs will probably only be a round trip.