Chapter 386: The Regular Season Ends

After two consecutive games of 40 plus, Li Wan only used these two games to set the tone for March.

In the next game, Li Wan's offensive state was directly full.

The number of consecutive 40 games is also constantly increasing.

In fact, among the upgrade tasks that Li Wan needs to complete, one of them is that he needs to surpass Michael Jordan's 9 consecutive games of 40 plus, but this record has been broken long ago.

Li Wan's 40-game streak has 11 games, second only to Chamberlain's 14.

But in terms of the number of consecutive 50 plus games, Li Wan has surpassed Chamberlain's 7 games, and has played 8 consecutive 50 plus games. Michael Jordan's five-game streak is simply not enough to see. This is a new record for the NBA.

The reason why Li Wan strengthened his individual offense was completely to break Michael Jordan's career total score earlier, and ...... It is to consolidate his position as the "scoring champion" this season.

One of the most difficult tasks in the upgrade mission is Michael Jordan's 10-time "scoring champion"!

At present, Li Wan has won 6 times, and he ranks first in the league with an average of 34.5 points per game this season, but Kevin Durant of the Bulls led by the "double core" team is also very strong this season, up to an average of 33.6 points per game, and Li Wan is also 0.9 points per game, this gap is not big, Li Wan in order to ensure that he can win this year's "scoring champion", he must work harder, so that the "scoring champion" battle ends early.

Li Wan's worries are not unreasonable, because Kevin Durant's overall scoring state has obviously improved since entering March, and after scoring 3 consecutive 40 games, one of them was interrupted, but he also scored 38 points in a single game, and then 3 consecutive 40 games......

His 40-plus competition with Li Wan can be said to be a beautiful scenery in the NBA in March.

It is worth mentioning that James Harden was just crazy in January, and now Kevin Durant has kept up with Li Wan's soaring rhythm in March, coupled with Westbrook's continuous "triple-double" and "Thunder Three Less" performances in the Thunder, which also reminded many media of the "Thunder Three Less" in those years.

has been together for 6 years, 4 in the Western Conference Finals, and 2 in the Finals, in terms of results, it is really not low......

And judging from the performance of these three guys after they "dispersed" in the past two years, it can be seen that except for Kevin Durant, they had not yet reached their "peak" at that time.

If they hadn't left the Thunder, how strong would they be now?

Will it become an opponent that makes Li Wan feel a headache!

On March 22, after Columbus played 11 games in March, Li Wan's 40 consecutive games continued, and it was only 3 games away from Chamberlain's 14 consecutive 40 games.

And at this time, Kevin Durant's form began to rise and fall.

There is no other reason, but I am tired and my body can't bear it.

Before March 18, Kevin Durant, who had eight games of 40 plus, scored 27 points in one of the next two games for the Bulls, and 23 points in the other game......

Gradually, they began to fall behind.

The final suspense of this "scoring champion" battle is almost gone.

Li Wan also breathed a sigh of relief, so that in April, he would still have a period of time to adjust his rotation.

March 24 is a big day for the Columbus Explorers, as they will retire Chris Bosh's jersey on this day.

It was also the first time in the history of the Columbus team that the jersey had been retired.

In addition, it was Chris Bosh's birthday, so the management specially prepared a big cake for Bosh before the game.

This warm feeling made Chris Bosh somewhat moved, Li Wan patted him on the shoulder, and said next to him: "Don't cry yet, there is a time for you to cry today!" ”

This successfully made Chris Bosh laugh out loud and wanted to give Li Wan a try.

Jie guy......

The whole thing is a "moving churner"!

But Li Wan was not wrong, there was indeed a time for him to cry tonight.

However, before that, the Columbus Explorers still have half of the game to play, and their opponent is quite coincidental, it is Chris Bosh's old club, the Raptors.

Also because the opponent is the Raptors, a reporter asked Chris Bosh before the game: "Do you think your jersey will be retired by the Raptors?" ”

Here's how Chris Bosh replied: "I feel like my jersey should be retired...... I didn't win more games for Toronto, but I left enough there, and I'm part of the Raptors, no one can deny that! ”

Although he didn't leave the Raptors with a championship, he ......

When Chris Bosh left, he was already the "rebounding king" in the history of the Raptors, and he grabbed a total of 4,668 rebounds in 7 years with the Raptors.

All of the Raptors' later interior players will inevitably need to be compared to Chris Bosh.

Of course, Chris Bosh was well aware of why he was here tonight for an interview, so he quickly shifted the conversation back to tonight: "These things will have a clear answer in the future, and now I'm looking forward to tonight's retirement ceremony, this is my first time retiring a jersey, I think it will be unforgettable, thanks to the management of Columbus, I spent three very memorable years here!" ”

The first half of the two sides were not intense, the Raptors just finished a "5 consecutive away games", including a "back-to-back", the body is in fatigue, plus they are currently sitting in the second position in the East, so in this game, head coach Dewyane Casey took turns to rest DeRozan and Paul George, Columbus is full of players, without these two main forces, the Columbus Explorers have the initiative from the beginning.

At the end of the first half, they had a 16-point lead.

Half-time finally came.

Chris Bosh's retirement ceremony is much worse than Kobe Bryant's starlight, but it's not surprising that they are definitely worse in grade.

But Li Wan is Chris Bosh's guest, plus this is Columbus, the exposure in front of the media is not small at all, and the entire sideline is black and pressed, densely packed with cameras.

Chris Bosh thanked Levan: "I didn't have success with a super team, after I left, I didn't think that my career was at its greatest, I want to thank Levan for that phone call...... Man, you really saved my career! Of course I wouldn't say we made a super team together, I know very well that I can get back to my form, most of it is because of your sacrifices, you are the best teammate I have ever worked with in my career, thank you, man! ”

Like Wade, Chris Bosh is also unhappy with LeBron James's "I haven't played in a super team", not only usually, but even after entering the Hall of Fame, he directly "made it clear": We were super teams back then.

It's just that when he mentioned his time in the New York Knicks and Columbus, he didn't think that he and Li Wan formed a "super team".

In the process of adjusting his state, Li Wan has been sacrificing; Second, he encountered an injury at the season reimbursement level, and during that time he occupied the salary cap, but Li Wan led the team alone, and when he came back, it was a long adjustment period.

In the whole process, he really did not play the role of a "giant", at best, he was really an ordinary "second master"!

It was indeed Li Wan dragging him along.

However, at the end of the speech, Chris Bosh thanked his family and ended the speech, without the same continuous roar as before.

Obviously, Chris Bosh in this time and space is very satisfied with his career, the blood clot did not directly ruin his career, he still won 2 more championship trophies, and then retired.

Although it is still a bit regrettable, compared to other people's careers, compared to his former teammates who ran around, and compared to another former teammate who was PUA, the latter part of his career is actually perfect.

He didn't need to roar back to the fans, he just watched as his No. 1 jersey slowly rose above the Grand Navigation Arena.

Anthony next to him watched this scene, and his eyes involuntarily showed a wave of envy and longing...... He hopes he can retire his jersey in Columbus, just like Chris Bosh.

Before retiring his jersey, Li Wan gave a speech as a guest, and in his speech, he directly responded to Chris Bosh's "I wouldn't say we made a super team together!" ”

"That's the kind of era, no matter how it came to be, that's the kind of time, I can't say that my teammates, an All-Star, a guy who has been on the regular season MVP list, a guy with a rookie coach who got him the best coach award as soon as he debuted, not a giant, I'm never going to deny all that, Chris, when you're standing next to me, when we're on a team, anybody, you have to think we're a super team, we have that qualification, we have this quality, we have this quality, we have this quality, we have this quality, To make others think so, superteams are never a derogatory term! ”

Chicago Bulls, isn't it a "super team"?

It's also a super team!

Wasn't the "eight-in-a-row" Celtics a "super team" in ancient times?

It's also a super team!

Including twenty years of alternative "Spurs dynasty", it's not a superteam?

It's also a super team!

The essential......

It still depends on how this "super team" is formed!

If Pippen didn't have Jordan, it can be seen from his team results that he really can't become the "greatest second leader"; Before Rodman came to the Bulls, he was still in a falling out with Popovich with the Spurs, and he was a notorious "thorn in the head", and later after leaving the Bulls, he also proved it......

But on Michael Jordan's side, they became the "Big 75"!

Before Pau Gasol went to the Lakers, he entered the first round of the playoffs in his 6-year career, and the All-Star was still made up for the All-Star weekend because someone else was injured, but when he arrived at the Lakers, he became one of the best 2 leaders at the time, and became the "Big 75" later!

Others ......

Before partnering with him, his teammates won the first championship in team history, and was also elected as the "MVP of the finals", known as "Jordan who is 5cm shorter", and continued to develop normally, especially in the case of forming a "super team", the top 15 in history will definitely not be able to run, but as a result, it fell directly out of the top 25.

In short, I didn't bring out a "75 big".

And......

Li Wan is another "3 crowns in 4 years" has been won, only people who lack results and lack confidence will talk nonsense there with their eyes open, he doesn't need it at all.

Next, it officially entered the process of retiring the jersey.

When the No. 1 jersey of the Columbus Explorers slowly rose above the arena, there was no more legend of the "Dragon King" in this Jianghu.

The game continued in the second half, and the Columbus Explorers easily beat the Raptors, extending the margin advantage to more than 20 points, and finally they also beat the Raptors by 125-101, 24 points.

It was a great end to Chris Bosh's retirement jersey and his "birthday night"!

On April 26th and 27th, the Columbus Explorers ushered in the last "back-to-back" of the season, Tyronn Lue took turns to rest Li Wan in the first game of "back-to-back", and in the second game of "back-to-back" games took turns to rest other main forces except Li Wan.

Of course, it also has a lot to do with the opponents they meet......

Without Leevan, their opponents are the Portland Trail Blazers...... After the first meeting of the season, many media outlets were saying that the style of play of the Columbus Explorers was somewhat restrained by the Trail Blazers.

But judging from the results, it is not the style of play of the Columbus Explorers that restrains the Trail Blazers, but the Columbus Explorers team with Li Wan who restrains the Trail Blazers.

Without Leevan, the team lost by 12 points to the Portland Trail Blazers;

And Li Wan's "single-core" team won only the "mediocre" San Antonio Spurs. However, the Spurs are now in "internal and external troubles", only ranked seventh in the West, much easier to deal with than the Trail Blazers!

At the end of March, Li Wan cut another "40 plus", and finally cut 14 40 plus in 15 games in a single month, ending his journey in March.

The only game that didn't cut 40 plus was the game where Li Wan took a break.

This makes Li Wan's average score per game in the entire month of March a terrifying 44.6 points!

This terrifying score made the media exclaim, "Could it be that March is also Li Wan's crazy month now?" ”

The excited Columbus press put it this way: "As the king of Ohio, what's wrong with being 'crazy' for a month in Columbus?" ”

is also such a terrifying "Chamberlain"-style score, in the end, even though the Explorers' record in March was the same as that of the Bulls and the Raptors, which was 12-3, Li Wan still won the final Eastern "Player of the Month Award"!

The West's "Player of the Month Award" belongs to James Harden, who came back in early March, after a half-month break, Harden's overall physical fitness is obviously much better, that is, Li Wan and Kevin Durant's "40 plus" competition in March is too fierce, Li Wan got 14 times 40 plus, Kevin Durant also got 9 times 40 plus, so it seems that James Harden's 6 times 40 plus is a bit mediocre.

But counting this "Best of the Month", James Harden has also won the "Best of the Month" 3 times, and he and Li Wan have won the "Best of the Month" the same number of times this season.

With Li Wan basically excluded from the regular season MVP list, James Harden winning this regular season MVP is already a sure thing.

After playing in March, Li Wan's career total score also came to 26,269 points......

Havlicek is only 126 points away from 15th on the NBA's all-time scoring list and 128 points away from Paul Pierce in 14th place......

With Li Wan's form, surpassing these two Celtic legends before the end of the season is a matter of imminence.

However, after entering April, Leewan's overall offensive momentum is no longer so ferocious, and his average points per game have dropped from 40 to his state before the All-Star weekend, which also makes him surpass Paul Pierce The day came a little later than the media expected.

On April 10, in the first three games at the end of the season, Li Wan's career total points came to 26,425, officially surpassing Paul Pierce and 71 points away from Tim Duncan, who ranked 14th on the NBA total scoring list!

With two games left this season, it is obviously very likely that Li Wan will run to the 14th place on the NBA's all-time scoring list.

Especially on April 12, after Li Wan scored 44 points against the Bobcats, this matter has become a reality!

27 points is not a problem for other supergiants, and it is not a problem for Li Wan!

It was also the last game of the Columbus Explorers, which surpassed Tim Duncan, and attracted huge attention.

Ben Simmons looked at so many reporters outside his arena that he was so angry that he almost spurted out a mouthful of blood.

Target me!

This girl must be targeting me!

The reason why he was so angry......

After Levan surpassed Tim Duncan, he was about a few hundred points away from catching Dominic Wilkins in 13th place.

So this guy is deliberately keeping Tim Duncan not surpassing, so as to gather a lot of attention in this game, so that he can be beaten up again in full view.

Achieve the achievement of "Triple Dozen Ben Simmons" for one season!

Otherwise, it's really hard to explain why this guy was so ferocious in March, and immediately "withered" in April......

There is only one truth......

I'm going to have to be repaired again!

Thinking of his miserable appearance in the past two games against the Explorers, and looking at the big battle tonight, Ben Simmons suddenly felt a pang of discomfort in his back.

And then......

"Sad news that Ben Simmons suddenly felt back discomfort before the start of this game and will miss the final regular season game of his rookie season!"

Kenny Smith said the news he had just gotten before the game started, and Barkley laughed wickedly when he heard the news.

A thought popped into his mind, and he didn't know why he always felt that he was absolutely right!

There was a hint of regret on Shaq O'Neal's face, and he really wanted to see Lee Wan continue to clean up Ben Simmons.

The good news is that Li Wan is a stingy person like his former partner. Ben Simmons escaped this time, so there's another time! He can't never stop playing, right?

At this time, Shaq O'Neill suddenly didn't think there was anything wrong with being stingy......

However, this game without Ben Simmons did not disappoint the reporters, and they did not come tonight to teach Ben Simmons a lesson from Lee Wan, that is, by the way, they came to witness Lee Wan surpass Tim Duncan tonight.

There is no accident, in such a "transcendence night", Li Wan has always been a "heavy punch", at the end of the first half has scored 26 points, the third quarter, with a trademark mid-range jumper, Li Wan got the 26497th point of his career.

Officially surpassed Tim Duncan to the 14th place on the NBA's all-time scoring list!

Without Ben Simmons, the 76ers also lost to the Columbus Explorers by 17 points in this game, ending their journey in the 17~18 season with a loss.

After the games of other teams on the same day, the regular season of the NBA 17~18 season was officially over.

Li Wan then scored another 15 points, bringing his career total to 26,512 points.

He only scored 23,475 points last season, and this season he has scored a total of 3,037 points!

Converted to every game, he has played a total of 79 games this season, averaging 38.443 points per game. In the end, he won the seventh "scoring title" of his career with Adu, who averaged the second most points per game, with a difference of 4.9 points per game, and was three points away from Michael Jordan's ten "scoring titles...... The gap is still not small!

Li Wan once again felt the "hooliganism" of the "old hooligan".

In addition to averaging 38.443 points per game, Li Wan also has a season-high average of 13.8 points per game rebounds this season, but unfortunately there are too many "demons" on the rebounding list this season, with Little Jordan averaging 15 per game and "Zhuang Shen" averaging 16 per game!

As a result, he failed to get the first "rebounding king" in his career.

With the number of rebounds this season, Li Wan's total career rebounds have come to 7,652!

That allowed him to make the list, squeezing out Antonio McDyce to 80th on the NBA's total rebounding list. Successfully reached the top 100.

averaged 7.6 assists per game, which allowed him to get a total of 600 assists this season, plus this data, Li Wan's career total assists successfully exceeded the 8,000 mark, reaching 8271!

After this season, he ranks a little higher on the total assists list than he does, and is currently in 12th place, behind Andre Miller.

The total number of steals came to 2041, ranking 13th on the list, successfully surpassing Allen Iverson, Li Wan got a total of 260 steals this season, an average of 3.3 per game, this data also made him successfully named the "steal king" this season.

And blocks per game......

Lee is averaging 2.2 blocks per game this season, totaling 173.

Counting these 173 blocks, Li Wan's total career blocks are 1,251...... Moved to No. 50 on the overall list, currently 16 goals shy of James Donaldson at No. 49.

Donaldson was a star of the Mavericks in the '80s and the only center in Mavericks history to be named an All-Star.

It can be seen from this data that Li Wan's position on the "data list" has risen a lot since the end of this year!

Aside from him, the Columbus Explorers' top scorer this season is Carmelo Anthony, averaging 21.3 points per game, in addition to six rebounds and 3.2 assists.

The average data per game is not much different from when he was with the Nets.

However, in terms of efficiency, there has been a big increase compared to before, and his average shooting rate of 48.5% per game is the highest shooting percentage per game since the 07~08 season.

The efficiency of three-point shooting and free throw shooting has been improved to varying degrees.

The biggest change for Anthony since coming to Columbus this season is that he knows how to pass the ball, and at the same time, he is not stuck in holding the ball for a long time. It has to be said that Tyronn Lue has a lot of credit for this.

Wiggins' points per game average has dropped this season, and in order to make Carmelo Anthony better use of his ability to attract defense with the ball, Wiggins has ceded his wing this season, and the ball has been greatly reduced, which has made his offensive proportion smaller.

This season, he averaged 15 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block per game.

However, because the contract extension has been completed, and his personality and temper will not care about this kind of thing, the atmosphere in the team has not changed much.

When Li Wan chose to stay with Wiggins, this is why:

His character is destined to be whatever he wants, as long as he is comfortable playing!

Even if it's a loss of data, he won't care too much.

Sabonis Jr. scored about the same as Brogdon.

Sabonis Jr. is averaging 12.2 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game, while Brogdon, who has played 82 games off the bench, is averaging 14.8 points per game.

Adams' scoring average this season has also shrunk a bit, averaging just 7.2 points per game and 6.2 rebounds per game, but considering that's just the 22 minutes and 13 seconds he gets, that translates to 36 minutes, his stats are still online.

In addition, Rajon Rondo averages 8.3 points per game......

None of the others averaged more than 5 points per game.

And if you add up all the points of everyone, Columbus can average 123.5 points per game this season!

The average firepower per game is the highest in this season.

Even the Warriors are averaging about 5 points less than them per game.

And their average points per game this season can also rank 5th on the NBA all-time regular season team average points per game list, and only 4 teams in the history of the NBA can average firepower more fiercely than them in a single season!

Most of them are teams from the '60s, and only the Nuggets in the '80s have averaged more points per game than Columbus in two seasons......

The ferocious firepower originated from Li Wan's madness for two months.

38.8 points per game...... It's scary!

And as the dust settles on the big data lists, the top eight in the east and west are also officially determined.

On the eastern side, the Columbus Explorers have a 68-14 record with strong offensive firepower, ranking first in the East and second in the league, second only to the Warriors' 71-11!

In second place is the Toronto Raptors, who have also won 60 games, 62-20!

It can be called the "biggest dark horse" in the league this season!

Of course, being so "black" has nothing to do with the trade they made at the end of November, if it weren't for the arrival of Paul George, the Raptors might have succeeded this season, and even continued to rank in the top three in the East, but it is definitely impossible to be so scary in terms of record......

Third in the East is the Chicago Bulls, 53-29!

At the end of March, Derrick Rose, who had torn a ligament in the playoffs last season, returned, but he was not in great shape after his return, and in order to get him back to form, the Bulls lost several games in a row at the end of the season.

Otherwise, under the leadership of Kevin Durant and Jimmy Butler, there would have been about 56 wins.

This result is enough to explain to the fans in Chicago when Rose is reimbursed for the season.

Speaking of which, Jimmy Butler's performance was somewhat disappointing to the Chicagoan.

I thought that without Derrick Rose, his statistics could go further, but as a result, he averaged about 23 points per game, and the rebounds and assists did not change much.

Many media even believe that Jimmy Butler has reached his ceiling and cannot improve anymore!

Fourth in the East is the Milwaukee Bucks.

At the beginning of the season, the media said that the Bucks would rise this season, and it turned out that sometimes, the eyes of these experts were still very accurate, and the Bucks really climbed to the fourth place in the East.

"Brother Alphabet" has indeed completed a complete evolution this season, averaging 26.9 points, 10 rebounds, 6.8 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.4 blocks per game.

Another "Almighty King" has risen!

Fifth place in the East is still the Wizards......

For this ranking, in fact, Washingtonians are still a little disappointed, after all, without Howard, they were fifth in the East last season, and now with Howard, they are still fifth in the East!

Isn't this Howard coming for nothing?

Sixth in the East is the Philadelphia 76ers who "believe in the process."

Their rise has been largely driven by two newcomers, an Embiid and Ben Simmons, and given that these two talents are just starting their careers, it stands to reason that they have the potential to continue to improve.

So in sixth place in the East, the Phillies are satisfied.

Seventh in the East belongs to the Charlotte Bobcats.

The Bobcats of the "Old Man Joe" era have been constantly rebuilt and rebuilt, and at the same time, as Michael Jordan's eyes have become "good", they have really built an excellent "youth army".

This season, they also made the playoffs.

Of course, if you really want to talk about it, you have to mention that they made a deal last summer, they brought in Jeremy Lin as usual, and Jeremy Lin, who became the "sixth man", played very well on the Bobcats' bench, averaging 13.6 points per game, and was an important part of the team's firepower.

It is also the starters and the bench that have enough ability to have this moment for them to enter the playoffs!

Eighth in the East is the Boston Celtics, who were the dominant Boston Celtics in the East last season......

The results of this season have not been satisfactory, but the whole team culture can be re-established after trading Thomas Jr.

It's just that after Irving's arrival, the improvement in scoring ability per game did not increase as expected, and after the Heat averaged 23.4 points per game, he came to the Celtics, and his average points per game was only 24.5 points.

This increase is actually no different from no increase.

The reason for this unsatisfactory is also very simple, the young people of the Celts want to "grab power".

If there is a Li Wan, forget it, come to Owen, what championship are you?

You're a champion of the!

Since there is no champion, why should you be the boss?

Just because you play beautifully, huh?

Then we're not bad at playing!

It is also this open and secret battle that makes the Celtics not change much after trading for Irving, and they almost can't even enter the playoffs.

(End of chapter)