Speaking of which, Brother Alphabet is really unlucky.

If it weren't for Wang Feng, he would have won the first regular season MVP trophy of his career last season, and defended his title this season, becoming one of the few top superstars in history who can win two consecutive MVPs.

However, due to Wang Feng's sideshow, not only did he steal his first regular season MVP, but now this second trophy is also very likely to be lost.

There's no way, who let Brother Alphabet fall behind Wang Feng in all aspects?

In terms of scoring, 29.7 vs 35.4.

In terms of shooting percentage, both are around 55%.

The rebounding brother has a slight site advantage, 14 rebounds is 1.3 more than 12.7, but who cares about those 1.3 rebounds?

And when it comes to assists, the gap between the two sides is immediately apparent.

Brother Alphabet's assist tandem ability is actually not bad, as a big player with a height of 2.11 meters, he can average nearly 6 assists per game, which is definitely at the upper middle level.

However, this is undoubtedly much inferior to Wang Feng's average of 10.4 assists per game.

What's worse is that Wang Feng averaged 10.4 assists per game and only about 3.3 turnovers per game, while Brother Alphabet's 5.6 assists averaged 3.7 turnovers per game.

The individual data is not as good as the team's record.

After all, the only dominant point of Antetokounmpo is the background of Wang Feng's two-time regular season MVP.

In the history of the league, there are only three people who have won three consecutive regular season MVPs: Beal in the '60 and '63 seasons. Russell, 65 to 68 seasons Werther. Chamberlain and Larry from '83 to '86. Bird.

Even if it's as strong as Michael. Jordan, the five regular season MVPs, has only made it twice in a row.

And Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has won the most regular season MVPs in history, has also failed to achieve three consecutive regular season MVPs out of six times.

Will the league let a Chinese player like Wang Feng win the honor of three consecutive MVPs? This is indeed a big question mark.

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Either way, the regular season is over, the Eastern and Western teams are decided, and the playoff roster is generated.

Wang Feng has traveled for many years, and the butterfly effect has almost completely destroyed the original historical process.

The pandemic did not happen, and there were no shrinking seasons and play-offs affected by the pandemic.

On the Western side, the Lakers, who won 66 games, have no suspense to hold the top spot in the West.

In addition to Wang Feng, who averaged a triple-double per game, the Lakers' performances of Butler and Ingram are also eye-catching.

Among them, Butler averaged 23.6 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game, playing far better than last season, and fully assumed the responsibility of the team's second leader.

Ingram has gained more possession this season, and it has not disappointed, averaging 20.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, shooting 44% from the field, as the team's third offensive point, playing remarkably, and making people look forward to his performance after further growth.

In addition to the Big Three, the Lakers also scored double-doubles with Kuzma and Lopez, who also started, but compared to last season, the Lakers' bench scored a lot less, and no one of the benches scored in double figures.

But this is also inevitable, the Lakers' five starters have averaged a total of 102 points per game, occupying a large number of shots and balls, leaving not many opportunities for bench players to play, and only blue-collar players like Howard who are mainly responsible for protecting rebounds and rim defense on the court are slightly better.

The rest, such as the newly drafted Jordan. Poole, Jordan with an annual salary of tens of millions. Clarkson, Seth. Curry and the rest of the people didn't play very well.

In second place in the West is the Los Angeles Clippers with 59 wins.

The combination of James + Leonard is indeed extremely strong, and it is not inferior to the Lakers James + Davis combination in another season.

James averaged 26 points, 8 rebounds and 9.8 assists per game, while Leonard averaged 27.2 points, 7.3 rebounds and 5 assists per game.

In third place in the West is the Golden State Warriors with 55 wins.

This season, the Warriors are only the old big three, Curry, Thompson and Green, but the Warriors still maintain a good competitiveness when the butterfly effect leads to the health of all players.

Curry, who has a lot of possession, played a career-best performance, averaging 31.2 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists per game, shooting 48% from the field, ranking third on the scoring list, behind Wang Feng, who averages 35.4 points per game, and James Harden, who averages 34 points per game.

Thompson also averaged a career-high 25.5 points per game.

The only one who pulls the crotch is Green, the weakening offensive ability of Green does nothing on the offensive end, and the top arc is not very easy to use, and there are often brain-pumping performances on the field, and the only thing that can be done is the ability to actively force the defense.

He averaged 8 points, 6.7 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game while shooting 38.9 percent from the field.

Fourth in the West is the Denver Nuggets with 51 wins, Nikola. Jokic is finally starting to rise.

The average of 24.4 points, 9.7 rebounds and 7 assists per game is slightly different from another time and space, but the strength is indeed quite strong.

The Utah Jazz, Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks are ranked fifth to eighth in the West.

In this way, the matchups in the first round of the Western Conference are Lakers vs. Mavericks, Clippers vs. Rockets, Warriors vs. Thunder, and Nuggets vs. Jazz.

On the other side, the Eastern Conference matchup table is the Milwaukee Bucks who are first in the East vs. the Orlando Magic who are eighth.

The Brooklyn Nets, who are second in the East, VS the Miami Heat, who are seventh.

The Toronto Raptors in third place in the East vs the Indiana Pacers in sixth place.

The Boston Celtics in fourth place vs the Philadelphia 76ers in fifth place.

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The Lakers' first-round playoff opponent was the Mavericks, and there was no suspense about this matchup.

The Mavericks' current lineup combination is a dual-core configuration, with Luca Brown. Doncic partnered Porzingis.

With 28.7 points, 9.3 rebounds, 8.7 assists and 19.2 points and 9.5 rebounds, the duo looked pretty good in the regular season, but the team's third-highest scorer was Tim Hardaway II, who averaged 15.8 points per game.

The gap in the strength of the squad is very obvious.

And among the three main players, only Tim. Hardaway II had playoff experience, still in '16 and '17 with the Hawks.

Compared to the Lakers, the Mavericks are still too young.

In addition, the core of the Mavericks is Luka Brown, who plays as a shooting guard and small forward. Doncic, while Wang Feng and Butler are all well-known defensive players in the forward position, and they can contain Doncic's play well on the court.

In the eyes of the vast majority of fans and media, there will not be much suspense in this series, and the Lakers will definitely win by a big score.

And so it is.

On April 13, the opening game of the first round of the playoffs began one after another.

The Lakers hosted the Dallas Mavericks, who were eighth in the West, at the Staples Center, and won 117-102.

Wang Feng, who had just won the scoring title and the honor of assisting the king and double king, played well, cutting a triple-double performance of 40 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists, Ingram scored 21 points, and Butler scored 16 points.

On the Mavericks' side, Porzingis scored a team-high 26 points on 7-of-16 shooting, while the team's star Doncic played abnormally under the care of Wang Feng and Butler, two old hooligans, with only 6 of 20 shots, 18 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, and 5 turnovers.

Doncic, who participated in the playoffs for the first time in his career, deeply felt the malice from the playoffs.

But after all, he is a rising top star in the future league, although he was severely defended in the first game, but in the second game, Doncic quickly adjusted, and cut a quasi-triple-double of 34 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists.

It's a pity that the luxurious data can't stop the team from losing the game.

No way, who let the Lakers have a bigger brush than Doncic?

That is, after cutting the 40+11+12 triple-double data in the first game, Wang Feng cut the 36+12+16 triple-double data again in the second game, and the 16 assists in a single game were only maintained at 5 times.

The two crisp victories directly brought the total score of the two teams to 2:0.

Doncic's strong rebound in the second game surprised many media, but they didn't expect Doncic to play such a good performance under the test of Wang Feng and Butler.

On the contrary, Wang Feng was not very surprised.

In another time and space, Doncic, who entered the playoffs for the first time, met the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round, and the Clippers at that time were a combination of Leonard + George on the front line, and their defensive ability was not inferior to Wang Feng + Butler.

But in the face of such a strong combination, Doncic still averaged 31 points, 9.8 rebounds and 8.7 assists per game in 6 games, shooting 50% from the field, and his performance was even better than Leonard.

What's more worth mentioning is that in the 20-21 season, the Mavericks and the Clippers met again in the first round, and Doncic showed a stronger dominance, averaging 35.7 points, 7.9 rebounds and 10.3 assists per game.

The two seasons of playoffs against the Clippers showed Doncic's personal strength, and also honed Doncic's strength to a great extent, after all, the playoff opponents are top defenders like Leonard and George, even if they don't win, Doncic's experience points have soared.

Now the game between the Mavericks and the Lakers is actually in a similar situation.

But Wang Feng is not worried, no matter how fast Doncic's experience is, will he come quickly?

The future is not Doncic's, but Wang Feng's, and not only the future, but also the present!

On April 18, the third game of the series, the court returned to Dallas, the home court of the Mavericks, and fans flocked to the Mavericks, expecting the Mavericks to win a game.

But the result was a 132-105 Lakers win by 27 points on the Mavericks' home court.

Wang Feng had 31 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, and clocked out early before the end of the third quarter of the game.

Jimmy. Butler had 26 points on his account.

The most explosive is Ingram, a rookie player who is about the same age as Doncic and has a higher draft pick, who has played in the league for two more seasons than Doncic, but now the status of the two is very different.

Doncic is already a core leader of a team, having played in the All-Star Game as an All-Star starter, and has been put on the same level as Wang Feng, James, Leonard, Durant and Antetokounmpo.

Ingram, on the other hand, remains the potential player who is seen as the team's hope for the future......

This contrast made Ingram very unhappy.

If you smash it, it will make you look amazing?

In the G3 series, Ingram, who was in a particularly unhappy mood, broke out.

He shot 11-of-16 from the field, 8-of-12 from three-point range and 8-of-9 from the free-throw line, scoring 38 points in an efficient manner.

The sudden and somewhat unexpected strong scoring points made the Lakers' winning process easy, and even Doncic cut a quasi-triple-double of 30+10+10 again could not prevent the Mavericks from losing across the board.

At the end of this game, the total score of the two teams has come to 3:0, and there is no suspense at all.

In the fourth game of the series, the Mavericks, who had no pressure and baggage, completely let go of themselves and played very unrestrained, Doncic, Porzingis and others all played well, especially Doncic, who scored a high score of 40+.

The Lakers were forced to be in a hurry for a while, especially the supernatural Ingram in the last game, as if he let go of his big move and entered a weak period, with a ridiculously poor hand, only 5 of 15 shots.

As the game entered the fourth quarter, the Lakers even trailed the Mavericks by more than double digits.

The Mavericks are close to their first win in the playoffs.

But Wang Feng didn't want to make a difference.

In the fourth quarter of the game, he broke out strongly, especially in the last 2 minutes, Wang Feng, who activated the key shooter, hit consecutive shots, scored 11 points alone, directly equalized and threw a stunner, strangling the victory of the Mavericks in the cradle.

With a score of 117:116 and a total score of 4:0, the Lakers completed their sweep of the Mavericks and easily entered the second round.

Doncic averaged 29 points, 7.8 rebounds and 9.2 assists per game in four games, shooting 47% from the field, which is quite impressive, considering that this is only the first playoff game in his career, the future is promising.

At least the management of the Dallas Mavericks is very happy with Doncic's performance and is looking forward to his further growth in the future.

On the Lakers' side, Wang Feng still contributed an average triple-double per game in 4 games.

34.3 points, 10.8 rebounds and 11.2 assists, although the score is slightly lower than the regular season, it is still a terrifying 30+10+10 triple-double data, impeccable.

Doncic may represent the future of the Mavericks, and Wang Feng represents the present of the Lakers!