5 times best of the week and 1 best of the month, which basically determined the MVP in the 90s. But if you want to be a little more insured, Zhang Qi has to win the best of the month one more time. Because since the 80s, any player who has won 2 times of the Month and 4 times of the Week of the Week in a single season has become the final regular season MVP.

Hill is also pitiful, with 26+12+10 stats and missing out on Player of the Week, which was something that only happened in the mid-80s, when black and white dominated the league.

In those years, due to the rise of Jordan, Malone, Big Dream, Drexler and others, there were too many big brushes in the league.

Now there is this trend again, although Jordan does not have a contemporaries to match him, but a group of his defeated men are in the stage of returning to the light in the past two years, and a large number of rising stars such as Zhang Zhu, O'Neal, Hill, Mourning, Howard, Hardaway, Glenn Rice, Iverson, etc., are rising at the speed of light, almost repeating the chaos of the mid-eighties.

Zhang Qi won the fifth weekly award of the season, which in the eyes of others, he should not be so much of a pursuit of this award.

But Koala Baby knows that he still has a task to complete, and getting 5 times is just the least difficult task, and he needs to get 5 more times of the week to get the title of "Sister Killer".

It's not time to relax yet, in the evening game with the Grizzlies, Zhang Wei scored 36 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists and 6 steals to help the Lakers win 10 consecutive victories.

The next day, the NBA announced the results of the third phase of the All-Star selection: 1. Zhang Yi (1994233 votes); 2. Michael Jordan (1294788 votes); 3. Grant Hill (1144515 votes); 4. Shaquille Oni (978212 votes); 5. Hakim Olajuwon (947126 votes); 6. Scottie Pippen (902593 votes).

In the third phase of this year's All-Star Vote, there were three players with more than one million votes, and Zhang Fu's votes are about to exceed two million.

Now Zhang Yu knew that his ticket king was completely out of suspense, and the Lakers also showed excellent competitive state, connecting the Trail Blazers, Pistons, and Mavericks, extending the winning streak to 13 games in one go, and also improving the overall record to 37-4.

There is only one fly in the ointment at the moment, last week's Player of the Week, the league did not award koala baby.

Richmond scored 36+8+7+3 in such a week, leading the weak Kings to a 3-1 record, which was enough for him to snatch a weekly best from Zhang.

This made Zhang very depressed, but it should be Stockton and Drexler who were even more depressed, because the two of them were about to be counterattacked by Kidd.

A league official gave the inside scoop, and while the fourth-phase vote has yet to be announced, the Lakers' Kidd appears to have overtaken Stockton and Drexler.

This news is more reliable, the last time the votes were counted, Kidd's votes rose to 630,000, 120,000 from Payton's 750,000, but with Stockton's 720,000, and Drexler's 680,000, the difference is less than 100,000 votes, and it is possible to complete the overtake in the final round at any time.

There are two guard positions in the east and west starters, and at present, Payton and Stockton are the most likely to grab the two in the West, Drexler's performance this year has been tepid, and eighty percent of them can't catch up with these two, but I didn't expect Kidd to suddenly make a force in the second half, and it is very likely that this momentum will overtake at the finish line.

Lakers fans and Zhang Zhu's fans played a role in it, didn't see that even Mutombo got 650,000 votes, this number of votes has surpassed the injured David Robinson to rise to third in the West, if Kidd came to the Lakers half a month earlier, maybe the number of votes in the last stage would have surpassed Stockton.

Of course, Kidd is not all about grabbing tickets with his thighs, his personal data has risen to an average of 14.1 points, 4.9 rebounds, 8.0 assists and 2.1 steals per game with the Lakers' winning streak, although the scoring data is still a bit unsatisfactory, at least the assist data has slowly risen, if it can be improved to 15+5+5+2 before the All-Star, it will look much better.

However, such a statistic as an All-Star starting guard is still difficult to convince the public, and Lakers fans can only help defend themselves, who says that there have been no particularly good guards in the West in the past two years.

It seems to be overlooked here that Richmond has just snatched a weekly award from Zhang Ju and is definitely qualified to be the starting guard in the West this year.

It's just that this person is too low-key, always habitually ignored, a guy who can contribute an average of 25+4+3 per game, this will only get more than 200,000 votes, only ranking 7th among Western defenders, even Van Exel and Eddie Jones are inferior.

"It's miserable, an average of 25 points per game to have to count votes like this, so it's not a good thing to be too low-key."

Zhang Wei also secretly mentioned that Richmond was upset, but this did not prevent him from continuing to vote for Kidera, as long as there is one more person of his own in the starter, there can be one more Lakers player in the bench.

Harris is the coach of the Western Conference Stars this year, and if he is the only one in the starters, then Harris can only choose two Lakers players to come to the bench, so that the Western team can have a maximum of three Lakers players combined. But if there are two Lakers players in the starting lineup, then Harris can still choose two Lakers players to come to the bench, so that the Western team can have four Lakers players.

On January 24, the Lakers rested for three days and easily defeated the invading Golden State Warriors at home, successfully winning 14 consecutive games, which is already the longest winning streak in the league this year.

Zhang still doesn't dare to relax, and the Lakers' schedule in December and January is relatively easy, but it also means that the next schedule will be more and more difficult. Moreover, even with such an easy schedule, the Bulls have not been pulled by the Lakers by more than three wins, and even the Jazz have maintained a gap of three or four wins.

Therefore, it is really uncertain whether the Lakers can win the first place in the league now, and as long as they lose in a row, they may be caught up by the Bulls.

This week, the Lakers only played two games, and Zhang's statistics are not particularly luxurious, so the player of the week must not have his share.

Zhang Yu often pulls his fingers to count when he is fine, there are 11 weeks left in the season, and he still needs to win at least five weekly best times, which originally seemed to be a difficult task, but now it seems that something is starting to be a little bad, and he realizes that things are not so simple.

On January 26, a new week begins, and today's opponent is a rare strong opponent of the month - the Seattle SuperSonics.

The American media believes that the Lakers' 15-game winning streak goal has been challenged.

Zhang Qi didn't feel any challenge, this season's supersonic speed always made people feel wrong, but what was wrong couldn't be said, what could be seen with their eyes was - their wins became fewer, and their rankings became lower. But Zhang can see that the superSonics' defense is not as dominant as last season.

Payton was better than last season, but Kemp wasn't as dangerous on the defensive end as he was in the previous two seasons, which some thought was the NBA's three-point line recovery that made his mobility less, but in fact his athleticism was starting to decline.

To put it mildly, everyone knows that Kemp is an addict, and the sports life of addicts is generally not too long, so his body began to decline at the age of 28, and there seems to be nothing wrong with it.

Despite this, Kemp is still the top interior defender on the roster, and his athleticism has dropped from 99 to 95 at best, but he is still the best big man in the league who can run and jump.

Garnett may surpass Camp in running and jumping ability, but "Rain Man" also has top-level confrontation ability, and the perfect combination of these three makes him a DPOY-level interior player with a not-so-stellar ball quotient.

If only one of the SuperSonics is not as consistent as last season, they may not fall out of the top four in the West, and the real killer is the role players of the SuperSonics, almost every one of them has dropped one or two stats, which is the result that Zhang saw before the game.

Let's put it this way, Payton has increased one or two ability values this year, but everyone else has dropped one or two ability values, so that calculated, the combat effectiveness of supersonic speed is naturally much inferior to last season, especially when playing a hard battle, this person's average decline in one or two ability values can completely determine the outcome of a game.

When the two teams met for the first time this season, Zhang Qian could see that the supersonic defense was difficult to suppress the Lakers' offense, but at that time Kidd had not yet come to the Lakers, and Payton, who made the Lakers completely helpless last season, still made the Lakers helpless this season, but today Payton met his good friend.

The two are not technically friends, Kidd is more than 4 years younger than Payton, both grew up in Oakland, California, knew each other at a very young age, and naturally often played together. But because the two are four years apart, when Kidd started playing basketball, Payton was already the local "kid king", so the relationship between the two is not Nobita and Fat Tiger, which is also possible.

"As long as Gary is around, it's going to be fun to play. I've watched him play for too long and learned a lot from him. ”

Kidd will of course pick up good things when evaluating Payton, but today he didn't give face to Big Brother at all in defense, except for not making a dead hand, basically using all kinds of tricks.

Fans of the two teams saw these two people pushing each other, elbowing each other, and stumbling on the field, and it is estimated that no one would have thought that they had a good relationship.

Payton always thought he could suppress Kidd, but he forgot that the crushing was based on being four years older. Today, Kidd has Payton's seven or eight points on the defensive end, and the offensive end may be a little worse, but because they know each other well enough, it makes it difficult for Payton to output too much damage for the SuperSonics on the offensive end.

Moreover, Kidd's role in the Lakers is not offensive output, and he is not even a mainstay in defense, don't forget that the Lakers also have a black eight supersonic on the inside, known as the "camp nemesis", Mutombo, this master is the key to the imbalance between the Lakers and the supersonic strength.

The Nuggets completed the first Black Eight Miracle in NBA history from the SuperSonics in the playoffs that year, and the SuperSonics as a tragedy and background became a laughing stock in the mouths of fans, and the two leading stars on the team naturally couldn't escape, especially Kemp was completely suppressed by Mutombo in the next few games, which made Uncle Mu a superSonic, and Kemp's nemesis since then.

Last season, the Nuggets were bad, but they still won the SuperSonics twice.

So the question is, Uncle Mu is not afraid of supersonic in the Nuggets, what will happen to the Lakers when he comes?

In the first half, Kemp gave 4 points and 4 rebounds, and he shot just 1-of-6 from the field, which is basically a pure blue-collar statistic.

Kemp can't play at a high level, and it will be difficult for the SuperSonics to win, and Payton's performance today is not outstanding, he only scored 10 points and 3 assists in the first half, and his shooting percentage is also only 3 of 10 shots, which is not a high efficiency.

With this kind of result from the two leading stars, there is no other way for the SuperSonics to win than to rely on defense to make the opponent as cheating as themselves.

But they can't do this task, Zhang Yu delivered 16 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists in the first half, his shooting rate was 5 of 12 shots, in fact, the efficiency is not much higher, but at least it is much higher than the two supersonic leaders.

The current Lakers are already a bit of a sly on the superSonics, Mutombo + Kidd is enough to make it difficult for Kemp and Payton to play at a normal level, even if Zhang Mao is not mad, Mason also scored 12 points in the first half, and the Lakers led the SuperSonics by 13 points at 56:43 at halftime, and the situation is completely in the control of the Lakers, and now there is not much time left for the SuperSonics.

Last season, the supersonic lineup was still very restrained by the Lakers, a camp horizontal on the inside line can reduce Zhang Fu's breakthrough threat by three percent, Payton's existence makes the Lakers' No. 1 position a breakthrough, the Lakers have not many ways to take the two strongest points of the supersonic, and Zhang Zhu can't lead the Lakers further no matter how against the sky.

This year, the situation on both sides is just reversed, one of the two strong points of supersonic is eaten, the other is entangled, and the rest of Hawkins is just finished by Starks, who is similar in height but has better athletic ability, and Schramf has not eaten good fruit when he meets Zhang Yi.

The four strongest points of the supersonic were all targeted by the Lakers, and even if Payton still had the advantage against Kidd, he was unable to save the supersonic defeat, and even a big defeat was difficult to recover.

The Lakers did not give the SuperSonics a chance until the end, Zhang Zhu began to drag racing in the final quarter, scored 16 points in a single quarter, and contributed 38 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists in the whole game, helping the Lakers beat the SuperSonics 114-98, and the aristocratic lords' 15-game winning streak did not suffer much trouble.

"A 15-game winning streak is not the end, we will keep it all the way! For the glory of Los Angeles!"

Zhang Mao made a bold statement after the game, and the Lakers' goal is now to hit a 20-game winning streak!

The NBA's winning streak is known to many, and it was 33 games that were considered unbeatable, and the record was set by none other than the Lakers, who accomplished this feat in the 71-72 season.

The second record, with 13 games missing at once, the Bucks created a 20-game winning streak in the 70-71 season, which was the second consecutive win streak in the NBA.

The third record is only 18 consecutive wins, the New York Knicks had an 18-game winning streak in the 69-70 season, and the Bulls also created an 18-game winning streak last season, not to mention that they created a 71-win streak, but failed to create a 20+ winning streak.

From here, it can be seen that a 30+ winning streak is more difficult to achieve than a 70+ winning streak, there is no shortage of 69 wins and 68 wins in NBA history, but there are only two 20+ consecutive wins, and only one 30+ winning streak.

The Lakers' 18-game winning streak after their victory over the SuperSonics is not far off, and their next game will be against the Dallas Mavericks, a super-bad team, which is almost impossible to lose.

Kidd faced the Savior's big killing, scoring 29 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists in the game.

The Mavericks have only won 11 games this season, and now their opponents should be the Spurs and Grizzlies, although in the face of Kidd, the Dallas people want to win, but Kidd's side wants to win more, and the result is a 25-point massacre!

Zhang Zhu's presence today is not high, but at the end of the game, people found out that he brushed another triple-double of 20 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, which is already his 11th triple-double this season.

After the game, the media didn't report heavily on the Lakers' 16-game winning streak as they have back-to-back games against the San Antonio Spurs tomorrow.

This game is neither time nor location for the Lakers, but the Spurs are now better than the Mavericks, and the three animals are in a state of slaughter this year, and the Lakers' huge advantage in strength is enough to offset the back-to-back disadvantage of the road.

It's worth mentioning that Spurs' new head coach Greg Vic looks a bit like a certain star and looks pretty cool, but that's about it.

Although this Polish descendant has been an assistant coach for the Spurs for 6 years, considering that he did not have much coaching experience during the NCAA period, and won the championship of the third division in his most glorious period, in the eyes of most people, this ** Vic is a complete rookie coach and a transitional coach of the Spurs.

Zhang Mao didn't taunt anything before the game, he didn't know who ** Vicky was at all, and he didn't care who a firefighting coach was, so he didn't bother to write down the name at all.

**Of course, Vicky will not have a cerebral convulsion, and ran to offend the league's most prominent player for no reason, but he praised Zhang Zhu before the game, which made Zhang Zhu know after the game that the Spurs have an old Soviet man who is still acquainted.

This one...... People are barely Serbs, what the hell are the Soviets?

But whether the Spurs change to a Soviet coach or a Serbian coach, they are far from being the Lakers' opponents anyway, and the same is true of back-to-back away games.

Zhang didn't even feel any resistance in the game, and this team is like the media said, they are now a slump team sprinting backwards at full speed, with only one goal in sight - Duncan.

"With the Admiral, what more Duncan!"

Zhang Mao doesn't understand the Spurs' pursuit of Duncan, it is normal for those teams without an inside line to pursue Duncan, the Spurs already have a general, and choosing an outside line next year is the king.

In fact, he thinks Keith Van Horn is the most potential rookie next year, which is obviously a "little Larry Bird", and he hopes to become the second Larry Bird in the future. Duncan is a Camby who has strengthened his offense but weakened his defense.

If the Spurs were lucky enough to pick the No. 1 pick, they would have been foolish to pick Duncan.

- Yahoo Sports

"17 wins in a row! Who can stop it from being LAL? ”

- Dragonborn Sports

"The Lakers are back in glory days!"

- Fox Sports

"Lakers, winning streak!"

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After the Lakers won 17 in a row, various media began to focus on the aristocratic team.

The 17-game winning streak is already the fourth-highest in history, and one more win for the Lakers would tie the Bulls' record of 18 consecutive wins set last year, and the first and third places will be the Lakers from now on.

"I hope that the first two teams that people will see on the winning streak in the future will be the Lakers!"

Zhang Zhu also played a clever trick in this, he did not say whether the record he created was the first or second, indicating that he already had the idea of surpassing 33 consecutive victories in his heart. But until he overtakes the Bucks' 20-game winning streak, he won't say that goal, so as not to offend those old Lakers fans and celebrities for nothing.

After this game, all of the Lakers' games in January were over, with a record of 14 wins.

Zhang Wei feels that his monthly best should not be able to run, the league has no reason to award this award to others, the Lakers are the only team to win all of them in January, and his data is dazzling, who can fight him?

But the trouble is the best of the week, this week the Lakers played three games, he averaged 31 points, 12 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 3.6 steals per game, which is supposed to be enough to win the best of the week, but given the league's balance policy, O'Neal and Barkley can be a threat to him this week.

Barkley doesn't know if he took the wrong medicine, he averaged 24 points, 16 rebounds and 9 assists per game this week, and O'Neal also averaged 32 points, 13 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks per game.

"Trouble, I didn't take it into account when I chose the difficulty of the task, in fact, I was competing with stars from all over the league, so many people will always have one or two people exploding every week, so it is likely to steal my award, 10 times of the week is definitely a difficult task."

Zhang Zhu now knows the difficulty of this task, and his data and record should be awarded reasonably, but it can be said that he can be justified if he is not given it.

So it is conceivable that the league certainly can't let him win the sixth weekly award in a single season so easily, let alone 10 times.

In February, the league officially announced the starting list of the 1996-1997 Cleveland All-Star Game, and the final vote was released at the same time, and the results were no different from the third vote, and the ranking was still: 1, Zhang Mao (2844723 votes); 2. Michael Jordan (1837961 votes); 3. Grant Hill (1651452 votes); 4. Shaquille O'Neal (1346845 votes); 5. Hakim Olajuwon (1242756 votes); 6. Scottie Pippen (1187632 votes).

Western Stars starters –

Center: Shaquille O'Neal.

Forward: Charles Barkley.

Forward: Zhang Qi.

Guard: Gary Payton.

Defender: John Stockton.

Eastern Stars starters:

Center: Patrick Ewing.

Forward: Scottie Pippen.

Forward: Grant Hill.

Defender: Michael Jordan.

Defender: Anfernee Hardaway.

Kidd ultimately failed to make a comeback, and his final vote was less than 20,000 votes short of Stockton.

Lakers fans, of course, feel that the league is deliberately suppressing Kidd, anyway, no one knows about the process of counting votes, and it is much easier to fake than the presidential election.

In fact, don't talk about the little Kidd, even if the league insists that Jordan has more votes than Zhang Zhu, no one can help this kind of artificial manipulation.

Fortunately, when Zhang Wei saw that he successfully won the vote king, he let go of his last breath in his heart, and at the same time thought a little self-absorbed: Lao Tzu was elected the vote king for two consecutive years in the rookie season, does this prove that the current era belongs to me?