Chapter Seventy-Four: The Playoffs Are Coming

Win!

In the locker room, the Lakers players celebrated the victory as if they had won a championship, and Kobe Bryant hung on Tony, shaking his fists vigorously and not hiding his excitement. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's been a fantastic season for them.

From the beginning of the dismantling of the team's main lineup and choosing to build the team around two rookies, they were not favored by the world, they have suffered setbacks, suffered heavy defeats, but also ushered in rapid growth, have the ability to reach the playoffs, and then to this day, 50 wins!

Although it is still a little worse than last season's 53 wins, you must know that the Lakers' original idea this season is to rebuild, and rebuilding can rebuild 50 wins, which I am afraid no team can do.

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The regular season is over, the playoffs are just around the corner, and the NBA has officially announced the final list of teams that will make the playoffs this season.

The Utah Jazz are firmly in the top spot in the West with a 64-18 record, and under the leadership of black and white, the Jazz are once again ready to attack the championship, and their roster depth will probably not be able to find any opponent even if you look at the entire West, except for the Rockets.

The Houston Rockets and Seattle SuperSonics also have a 57-25 record, but in the regular season, the Rockets had the upper hand in the battle against the SuperSonics, so the Rockets ranked second, while the SuperSonics ranked third.

Then there's the Lakers, who managed to take the fourth spot in the West after beating the Portland Trail Blazers, who sit fifth by a narrow margin.

As for the teams from sixth to eighth, there is a lot of water, because none of them has a record of 50%, the Minnesota Timberwolves are sixth with a 40-42 record, the Phoenix Suns are also 40-42 in seventh, and the Los Angeles Clippers are also embarrassed to squeeze into the playoffs with a 36-46 record, which shows the weakness of the West's competitiveness.

In the East, the Chicago Bulls, after their historic 72-10 record under Michael Jordan last season, have a perverse 69-13 record this season.

The Miami Heat are also 10,000 in the East with a 61-21 record, the New York Knicks are third in the East with 57 wins and 25 losses, and the Atlanta Hawks are just one win behind the Knicks and fourth with 56 wins and 26 losses.

Fifth and sixth are the Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Hornets, both with a 54-28 record.

The Orlando Magic are seventh with 48 wins and 34 losses.

The Washington Bullets are in eighth place with 44 wins and 38 losses.

Immediately afterwards, the matchup table for the first round of the playoffs was also announced.

Western Conference First Round: Utah Jazz vs. Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers vs. Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets vs. Minnesota Timberwolves, Seattle SuperSonics Phoenix Suns.

Eastern Conference First Round: Chicago Bulls vs. Washington Bullets, Atlanta Hawks Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat Orlando Magic, New York Knicks vs. Charlotte Hornets.

The regular season just ended, and all teams had three days to recuperate.

Harris gave the team a little time off, and the day before the playoffs, he gathered his players together for a stay-in session.

At this time, various awards for the NBA regular season were also awarded.

Bryant and Tony were both selected to the rookie first team, and Fisher was selected to the rookie second team.

Kobe Bryant averaged 20.1 points, 4.3 boards and 3.9 assists per game this season, and finally he defeated Allen Iverson, who averaged 23.5 points, 4.1 boards and 7.5 assists per game, by a narrow margin of 3 votes, and was selected as the best rookie of the season, after all, the Lakers have achieved 50 wins this season, while the 76ers only have a 22-60 record, Kobe Bryant has no problem being selected, but many people have questioned this, after all, Kobe Bryant has a Tony who averages 17.4 points, 12.3 boards, 2.1 assists and 2.8 assists per game, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the core of the Lakers' tactics this season is actually Tony.

And Tony even got only 4 votes.

However, Tony didn't really care about that, because he was named to the All-Defensive Team 2, and it was definitely a great achievement for a rookie to be named to the All-Defensive Team in his rookie season.

In terms of other awards, Karl Malone beat Michael Jordan to be elected MVP of the regular season, which caused an uproar in the league.

Although Malone's average of 26 points, 11.4 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.3 steals per game this season is also very dominant, Jordan's performance this season is completely better than Malone, in terms of data, he can average 29.6 points, 5.9 boards, 4.3 assists and 1.7 steals per game, which can be said to be comparable, but in terms of record, the Bulls' 69 wins are also due to the Jazz's 64 losses.

For a while, there were shady protests from nowhere.

If the moisture of the regular season MVP is still to be studied, the award for the best defensive player loses the point of contention.

Amid Beyne Mutombo, who is averaging 13.3 points, 11.6 rebounds and 3.3 rebounds per game this season, is the centerpiece of the Atlanta Hawks' interior defense, helping the team to a 56-26 record and deservedly being named the best defensive player.

After a series of awards, the NBA1996-1997 playoffs officially began.

The Lakers also ushered in the first game of the first round and the Trail Blazers.

Before the game even started, the Forum Arena sold out early, and countless Los Angeles Lakers fans waited outside the arena, surrounding the entire arena and waiting to enter the arena.

At this time, the Trail Blazers team bus stopped outside the arena and the Trail Blazers players arrived at the scene.

"Go back to your Portland!!"

"Kobe Bryant is going to blow up your !!"

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Lakers fans were so excited that they were frantically surrounding the Trail Blazers bus and trash-talking.

If it weren't for the on-site security guards maintaining order, the Trail Blazers players would have been really worried that they would be killed by this crazy crowd of fans.

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"Boys, we've beaten them countless times, it's the playoffs and we need to tear them apart even more brutally! Get them out of Los Angeles!! In the locker room, Harris roared loudly, cheering up the Lakers players.

His words had a good effect.

"Get out of Los Angeles!"

"This is our territory!"

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The Lakers' players spontaneously gathered around, each with a fist outstretched and stacked on top of each other.

One! Two! Three! GO!

After the players shouted loudly, they ran into the game tunnel one after another.