"I can't believe it's a team that's been in the first year of rebuilding. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Carl Malone shook his head and said with a smile in an interview, he scored 32 points and 20 rebounds in this game, and was the team's MVP of the game, but he praised the Lakers' performance, "We were lucky to win, Kobe Bryant almost did a miracle, and I'm glad I don't have to face them again." ”

And another key player of the Jazz, John Stockton, also showed respect for the Lakers, although the Lakers were swept 0:4, but the Lakers' outstanding performance in these games is enough to win their respect.

"The Lakers are a team with strong blood, they've been a championship-caliber team historically, but it's certainly pretty shocking that they've been able to do this in their first year of rebuilding, and Kobe Bryant is a guy full of miracles, he's going to be the next superstar in the league." Stockton said.

In fact, he played perfectly in this game, he played a total of 44 minutes in the whole game, 11 of 13 shots, and scored 24 points and 10 assists, but he was not too surprised by this, after all, this veteran bird who has been in the league for more than ten years has been able to do it to the extent of pampering.

Compared to the Jazz's praise of the Lakers, the Lakers' players don't seem so excited, although they miraculously reached the Western Conference semifinals, although they met the Jazz, the first team in the West, but they didn't even win a game and were shaved bald, which is undoubtedly a very shameful thing.

"It would be the last time I'm going to be swept in the playoffs in my career." Tony's expression was a little serious, and although he knew that the team had done well enough this season, he still couldn't laugh when the day really came to an end.

"I'm outraged." Bryant's expression was also not good-looking, "We had a chance to win, but we didn't take it. ”

However, coach Harris was very satisfied with the team's performance, "At the beginning of the season, no one could have imagined that we would be able to get to where we are today, and I believe that we will create even more fantastic results next season." “

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With the end of this game, the Los Angeles Lakers' 96-97 season officially came to an end. A few of the team's veterans don't look too frustrated by the team's exit, as they will have a nearly six-month break coming up, and many of them are even planning to travel around the world in the locker room.

But Kobe Bryant doesn't have these plans, he and Tony went to participate in some Adidas endorsement business activities, and then he devoted himself to training, he is very aware of his weaknesses, his offensive skills are good enough, although he has not yet reached the top of the scale, but this is not very urgent, but he is too thin, the lack of confrontation will greatly affect the stability of his shooting rate, this summer, weight gain is his primary goal.

Tony originally wanted to take Jessica to Miami for a vacation or something, but unfortunately Jessica took over an independently produced movie, and she was going to be busy all summer, Tony also expressed his understanding of this, he knew that Jessica's career was struggling, and every opportunity was very hard-won for her.

In this way, Kobe Bryant also pulled Tony on the road to training.

Unlike Kobe, Tony no longer needs to grind his body, what he needs now is to continue to improve his offensive ability and passing ability.

Tony has the only strength and star-level offensive skills in the league that are second only to O'Neal, if he chooses to sign with the Lakers in the summer, the Lakers management will definitely identify him as the team's big leader, although Kobe Bryant is good, but the current league is still a league that respects the inside, although the NBA truth that the insider wins the world, although it is a little unconvincing with the emergence of Jordan, but whenever a super center appears, it will still cause a crazy chase across the league.

While the future core combination of the two teams continues to polish their strength, time passes day by day, and the NBA season is still going on without hurry.

The divisional semi-finals have also been decided.

In the West, unlike the Jazz who easily swept the Lakers, the war zone on the other side was in a scorching state.

The Houston Rockets and the Seattle SuperSonics battled it out seven games before they were decided.

Olajuwon contributed 22 points, 13 rebounds, 4 steals and 1 assist in the tiebreaker, leading the Rockets to a hard-fought 96-91 victory over the SuperSonics led by Payton and Rain Kemp, advancing to the Western Conference Finals and the Jazz for a ticket to the Finals.

The Rockets' roster is actually a bit aging, not to mention that they have played seven games in the division semifinals, and almost everyone is not optimistic that the exhausted Rockets can beat the Jazz who are waiting for their work.

In the East, the Chicago Bulls basically eliminated the Atlanta Hawks 4-1 without much effort, and the reason why they lost may be the suspicion that the Bulls owner deliberately instructed them.

Because Game 5 is on the home court of the Chicago Bulls, so that the owners of the Bulls can earn an extra game ticket, though, who knows?

On the other hand, the competition between the Orlando Magic and the New York Knicks was also very intense, and the two sides also fought to seven games.

Originally, everyone thought that Patrick Ewing, who had begun to gradually decline, would definitely be blown up by Shaq O'Neal who was at his peak, but almost everyone underestimated Ewing's heart as a champion, and in the entire series, Ewing averaged 25.3 points, 11.5 boards, 1.3 assists and 2.2 blocks per game, although he couldn't limit O'Neal with 28.9 points, 12.1 rebounds and 2 blocks, but he also managed to support the team's interior.

Knocking out Penny Hardaway and Shark O'Neal's Magic, Ewing's Knicks will square off against Jordan's Bulls.

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"I'm betting a thousand and the Rockets will be eliminated by the Jazz."

During a break in the middle of a training session, Tony pulled Kobe Bryant to predict the playoffs out of boredom.

Kobe Bryant has gradually come out of the loss of being eliminated, and he has also gambled with Tony with great interest.

"Then I'll bet on rockets." Kobe Bryant said with a smile that in fact, with his character, he would not want the team that eliminated them to win, so he will definitely put the treasure on the Rockets.