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The Los Angeles Lakers have been playing away games on the road in recent times, and after beating the Trail Blazers on the road, the Los Angeles Lakers also welcomed their last away opponent in recent times, the Clippers.

Of course, for this away opponent, this is basically the same as the home court, after all, now in Los Angeles, the Lakers are the only basketball team that can really be regarded as influential, although the Los Angeles Clippers have been in Los Angeles for a long time, but they have not yet gained a foothold in this place, and it can even be said that there is not much fan base, and this can also be seen from this game, the fans at the Staples Arena, which was originally the home of the Clippers, are all wearing Lakers jerseys.

Although the Los Angeles Clippers have performed very well this season, and have recently been competing with the Kings and other teams for the eighth place in the West in this year's playoffs, and the Clippers have a lot of chances to reach the playoffs this year, it is extremely unrealistic to compete with the Lakers for control of Los Angeles by virtue of entering the playoffs, and it is also extremely unrealistic for Los Angeles fans to shift their eyes from the Lakers, who have won 37 in a row, to a team that is only working hard for the playoffs.

Therefore, before this game, Sterling, the owner of the Clippers, did not say that he wanted to replace the Los Angeles Lakers as the overlord of the city, or other words that provoked the Lakers or Zhuang Fei, after all, the owner of the Clippers was taught enough by Zhuang Fei and the Lakers last time, and now, it is obvious that he has learned a lot, after all. Even if his slogans are shouted louder. Fans in Los Angeles don't approve of them either.

25 January 2005. This is the 40th game of the Los Angeles Lakers this season, in the first 39 games, the Los Angeles Lakers have a record of 38 wins and 1 loss, and the only game they lost was to the Timberwolves, who now have the second largest twin towers in the West.

And in this game, the Clippers don't have twin towers, but this team also has a tower. Brand, the player who has been extremely consistent in every game, can score 20 points and 10 rebounds every game if he wants to, and he can consistently give this statistic against Duncan or anyone.

But his statistic always makes people feel that the process and impact of the game is not very great, which is also what makes the big forward, known as Malone's second in the Bulls, very embarrassing in the previous few years, after all, he can play 20+10 every season, and it is also a very embarrassing thing for his team to be at the bottom or hovering at the bottom every season.

But fortunately, the Clippers' results have improved this year, and he himself has received more applause, and recently with the All-Star approach. Many people are also calling for the league to give the power forward a chance as well.

Of course, Brand can't make it past an All-Star. This does not affect the process of this game, in recent times in the eyes of many people Lakers performance is not stable, the performance of the Clippers is really impressive, in this case, many people are looking forward to this game, to see if this playoff team Clippers can perform in this game.

It's just that when this game started, many people's expectations quickly came to naught.

Because the Lakers suppressed the Clippers almost from the beginning, and this suppression almost gave the Clippers no respite.

At the end of the first quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers led the Clippers by 14 points at 39-25, and after halftime, the Lakers had scored 76 points, and the Lakers only scored 48 points, so it can be said that the game has entered garbage time after halftime.

In the third quarter, after the Lakers three elders played eight minutes with the starting lineup, Zhuang Fei removed all the Lakers starters except Kobe Bryant and replaced them with substitutes, even so, when the game ended, the Los Angeles Lakers were 144-95, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Clippers again, and this team that was almost on the edge of the Western Conference playoffs met the Lakers again without any resistance.

However, in this game, Brand, the leader of the Clippers, still scored 25 points and 14 rebounds, and output 20+10 again very steadily, but the team also lost again.

Of course, defeating a team like the Los Angeles Clippers is not a big or difficult thing for Zhuang Fei personally, and this game is not of much significance to the Lakers' ranking this season, after all, the Lakers' current record is almost a big jump from other teams in the league, but for the Lakers, the victory in this game has made the Lakers have caused a lot less bad public opinion pressure after losing to the Timberwolves.

After all, whether it's a big win over the Trail Blazers or a big win over the Clippers, these are teams in the Western Conference playoff region, but the Lakers still showed their ability against these two teams, which also made the Lakers' loss in Minnesota look more like an accident than the beginning of a collapse, after all, the team is also on the right track again.

The Los Angeles Lakers are on track right now, and that's true, as evidenced by the Lakers' home game against the Eastern Conference Nets on Jan. 27.

This season's Nets are very sad, although the contract extension left the team's All-Star level inside Kenyon Martin, but remember that the departure two seasons ago still makes the team still in a time of extreme struggle, in this case, the team's performance this season is also conceivable, even if Jefferson and Martin are mature this season, but this team is still not too competitive in the extremely competitive East.

Of course, in this case, what is even more tragic for this team and its fans is that the real estate owner of this team who took over two seasons wants to be able to move the team to Manhattan, New York, and the real estate owner is not ashamed to say that the New York City government is ready to approve the construction of a stadium for this team in Manhattan.

And the Nets real estate owner is also ashamed to say that he is ready to raise 3 billion to build the world's best basketball stadium in Manhattan, but it is clear that this is boasting and pulling investment. Because the New York City government came forward to refute the rumors in a very short time. There's no reason for them to take a piece of land for free to build a stadium for an alien team. Even the New York Knicks don't have this treatment, and this is what makes this team a laughing stock in the United States in recent times, and the morale of this team that has recently become a laughing stock can be imagined.

So in this home game, Zhuang Fei just let Webb play half a year and then went down to rest, and in the third quarter Kobe Bryant also went down to rest, but in the third quarter of the game Kobe still scored an astonishing 43 points, the last three games The Lakers leader swept away the slump when he beat the Timberwolves, scoring 40+ points in three consecutive games. And this season, the Lakers' leading player's points per game are still consistently above 42 points per game after playing half a season.

In the end, the Lakers, who were not prepared to do their best in this game, also defeated the team that has been in bad form recently with a score of 139-90 on their home court, and after this game, the Los Angeles Lakers' record this season has also become 41 games and 40 wins and 1 loss. Just half a season, but the Lakers only lost one game.

It's clear that the Lakers' season has been epic, and no team in the history of the NBA has been able to do that.

And after the game between the Lakers and the Nets, some media even shouted whether it was possible for this team to challenge the record of 80 wins in a single season this season.

"A horrific 41-40 record, the craziest half-season record in NBA history, after a 37-game winning streak in the opening game. Although they lost one game, the Lakers still got back up quickly. A team that has never scored less than 110 points per game this season is still hard to beat, when will the next time this team lose? Maybe no one knows, but I think the next time we beat this Lakers will be more difficult than the Timberwolves beat the Lakers at home three games ago, this team seems to be like there is no fatigue, even if someone is not in good shape, others can quickly make up for it, their consistency is incredible, and where will the ultimate limit of this team be? Maybe we'll have to wait now."

This is the Washington Post's comment on its own front page headline the day after the game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Nets, the media shouted the goal of 80 wins for the Lakers for the first time, and soon, this media such expectation was recognized by many media, such as some local media in Los Angeles or some other influential media are constantly reprinting this topic, there is no doubt that these people have once again set off a topic in the NBA.

In the NBA of the last century, when it had not yet come to the 90s, many people thought that the NBA could not have a team with more than 70 wins, after all, the NBA season was too long, and no one could guarantee that they would not underestimate, and when the Bulls completed this miracle, many people thought that the Bulls' results were already the limit of the NBA, but in the new century, Phil Jackson's Lakers and Zhuang Fei's Timberwolves have completed the transcendence of the Bulls miracle, and at this time, These people obviously don't just want the Lakers to just finish ahead of the Timberwolves, they also expect more.

It's just that for Zhuang Fei, he personally doesn't expect to achieve this record, so Zhuang Fei has not responded to the recent hype outside. This kind of thing is always easier said than done, Zhuang Fei doesn't need to let the Lakers' players spend too much in the regular season for this illusory record, just go with the flow.

In fact, the Lakers' players are not very interested in this record, of course, except for the Lakers' management, the Lakers' general manager Kupchak has been running to Zhuang Fei's office in the past two days, he hopes that Zhuang Fei and the Lakers can work hard to create a miracle, and this miracle for the Lakers represents a huge business interest.

The 33 consecutive wins that Jerry West led the Lakers to play back then are still creating huge commercial value for the Lakers, but it is obvious that this team is not the general manager who has the final say, so he can only give Zhuang Fei advice, as for whether Zhuang Fei listens or not, then there is no ignorance.

Of course, Kupchak hopes that Zhuang Fei can pursue something in the regular season, and the fans are the same, what they hope most is that the team can continue to win, even if the loss to the Timberwolves away is acceptable, but it also makes these Lakers fans suffer for a long time, after all, the winning streak is broken.

But when the expected Kupchak and the Lakers team, in the Lakers' back-to-back home game against the Trail Blazers on January 28, the team's head coach Zhuang Fei once again threw the team's three veterans on the injury list is also a little helpless. You must know that the Trail Blazers are not a team that the Lakers can easily solve without three veterans.

Although not long ago, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the team that is currently sixth in the West, but the victory in that game was not something that the Lakers could create by losing three veterans, and even when they saw that the Lakers' starting lineup was Paul, Kobe, Szebiak, Jackson and Josh Smith, the head coach of the Trail Blazers, Cheeks, also had some very special ideas, such as holding the revenge of the recent home loss in this game.

In this case, the Trail Blazers played very hard as soon as they came up, and the Lakers also looked a little underdog, but when the game went on, Lakers fans actually found that the team was slowly controlling the situation again, and the Lakers, who were almost on the second lineup, actually slowly established a lead after the end of the third quarter.

And when the Lakers fans were even more surprised, Josh Smith, the jumping man they rarely paid attention to in the past, was able to send 8 blocks in the third quarter of the game when facing the Trail Blazers, and when the Lakers defeated the Trail Blazers 119-105 in the whole game, the Lakers' jumping man sent a triple-double of 12 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocks, and even in the end, the young rookie Gasol didn't dare to come inside. Of course, Randolph's 33 points and 19 rebounds in this game also shows that his defense is not as good as his block.

But regardless, the Lakers won their 41st game at home by back-to-back defeats of Western Conference powerhouse Trail Blazers in Game 42.

And the fans also relied on this victory to once again see the possibility of the team creating miracles. (To be continued.) )