The simultaneous growth of Thompson and Leonard brought about a sea change for the Wizards.

After winning the two games in October without any pressure, the Wizards won all 12 games in the next 11 months.

That said, before December, the Wizards had a horrific 14-0 record and were in first place in the league without any pressure.

And Li Kaiming's average playing time per game has also reached a new career low.

So far this season, he has averaged 30.1 minutes per game, scoring 28.7 points, 14 rebounds, 9 assists, 2 blocks and 2 steals.

While the points per game average has declined for the third year in a row, the shooting percentage and true shooting percentage have increased again.

From these data, it can be seen that Li Kaiming is currently playing too easily, basically 80% of the games he is paddling the whole way, throwing two three-pointers per quarter, and then going to the basket or shooting a mid-range.

Even so, the average points per game is the first in the league.

There are some more difficult games left, and he still plays with paddling in regular time, and waits until the last moment to suddenly shoot and make a final decision.

However, the Wizards won 69 games last season, and the 14-game winning streak at the start of the season did not cause much of a stir.

However, with this kind of record, Li Kaiming still won the best player in the East in November.

The best player in the West in the first month of the season is Kevin Durant, who can get an average of 26.9+8.4+5.6 data per game, which looks very eye-catching, but it is a little unsightly compared with Li Kaiming next to him.

The next two months were the longest and most boring part of the season.

Aside from some special strong dialogues, there are basically no gimmicks.

That only changed after the All-Star voting began at the end of December.

However, for Li Kaiming himself, there is never a need to worry about all-star voting, although the weight of the votes on the Huaguo side is small, but the number of fans in the Huaguo is large, not to mention that he is also the top traffic on the Emerika side.

Therefore, there is basically no suspense about this All-Star ticket king, especially since this All-Star Weekend is still held in New Orleans.

The original New Orleans Hornets changed their name after the start of this season and became the New Orleans Pelicans, and the biggest player on the current team is last year's top pick Anthony Davis, who is choking enough to enter the All-Star Game and does not pose any threat to Li Kaiming's vote king.

The December schedule has had a thrilling past, and the Wizards' winning streak has come to an end in a three-game road streak in the West.

Without the pressure of a winning streak, the Wizards players were more relaxed, and after a little relaxation, another winning streak began.

Li Kaiming won the Eastern Conference Player of the Month for two consecutive months, and the average data per game has not changed much compared to the first month.

However, Kevin Durant in the West broke out in December, averaging 29.4 points, 9 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game throughout December.

Two months into the season, Li Kaiming and Durant won the Player of the Month award in their respective divisions, which also made some media start to discuss that this season's regular season mVp will be born among these two people.

After the NbA schedule returned to normal, the All-Star voting was changed to the original three rounds of voting.

In a round of voting announced at the end of December, Li Kaiming firmly occupied the first position in the Eastern frontcourt and the first in the league, surpassing the second place in the East James by more than 80,000 votes and the second place in the league by more than 60,000 votes.

Compared with Li Kaiming's votes, what is even more surprising is that Leonard and Thompson also appeared on the All-Star voting list, and their positions are not low.

Among them, Leonard ranks 9th in the Eastern frontcourt, and Thompson ranks 7th in the Eastern backcourt, Thompson's high ranking is not because he performs better than Leonard, nor because he is more popular, but because there are more players in the frontcourt than in the backcourt.

Li Kaiming has been elected as the All-Star vote champion for two consecutive years, but he has no feelings about this result.

On the contrary, Leonard and Thompson, who entered the All-Star list for the first time, and they were not the tail of the crane, and their departure made these two guys excited.

And it just so happened that after the first round of voting was announced, the Wizards' opponent was the Thunder in the West.

This game has also attracted a lot of attention, and Thunder fans also take this game very seriously.

Whether it is the grievances in the previous finals or the current competition between the two teams in the mVp, this game is full of highlights.

So Thunder fans are almost just greeting Wizards players according to playoff specifications.

When the Wizards stood on the Thunder's home court, the arena erupted in earth-shattering boos!

Durant was also very serious tonight, because he knew that as long as the Thunder could beat the Wizards in the two matchups in the regular season, then the judges of the mVp would be inclined to choose him in the final vote!

However, tonight's Durant miscalculated again!

The situation of the game went in a direction that he could not have imagined!

Because the protagonist of this game is neither him nor Li Kaiming.

It's Leonard and Thompson!

The two young people who entered the All-Star voting for the first time, or the young people who have experienced the tempering of the finals twice, with their enthusiasm and excitement, directly stole the limelight from Li Kaiming and Durant!

Leonard played against Durant all over the court, defending the latter, a scorer known for his efficiency, to the front court and scored 30 points on 30 shots.

At the same time, Leonard's own performance on the offensive end is also very good, Durant just wants to limit Li Kaiming in his mind, and he goes to cover the latter at every turn, and Leonard seizes the opportunity to shoot and punish him.

In the end, Leonard had 21 points, 8 rebounds, 3 steals, 2 assists and 2 blocks.

The stats don't even reflect his terrifying performance on the defensive end, just look at Durant's iron-clad face.

And Klay Thompson, the other of the two generals, is not far behind.

Thompson was on fire, hitting 11 three-pointers in the game, and the number of three-pointers in a single game was second only to Li Kaiming in the history of the Wizards, with 36 points and 4 rebounds.

And Li Kaiming saw that these two guys were so excited tonight, so he was naturally happy, and simply became a sexy dealer and did the work of dealing cards and defending at the top of the arc.

However, these two guys felt really good tonight, even if he paddled completely, he also got an alternative triple-double of 16 points, 14 rebounds, 22 assists and 3 blocks in the whole game, and the assists were a career high!

There is nothing special about Li Kaiming in this match.

But it was his indifferent attitude that made Durant on the opposite side about to go crazy!

In the eyes of the latter, Li Kaiming's performance is not indifferent, but arrogant!

In Durant's eyes at this time, Li Kaiming's behavior was equivalent to patting his face, and he said in an extremely arrogant tone: "I don't need to make a move to beat you......"

This conversation between the mVp candidates turned out to be a performance by Leonard and Thompson, which made all the fans who were ready to watch a dragon fight a little crying and laughing.

But no matter how important this game is, it is only a regular season game at best, and discussion for two or three days at most becomes a thing of the past.

Whether it's a winner or a loser, life has to go by, and the game has to go on.

The time soon came to January, and the new year, Chinese New Year's Eve team building has changed from a family gathering of Li Kaiming to a tradition for the entire Wizards.

Tommy Shepard, the president of this year's New Year's Eve party, simply waved his hand and chartered a hall directly at a top hotel in Washington, D.C., where both the players and the team's staff attended.

This scene made many old players who had attended Li Kaiming's family party a little embarrassed.

Three years ago, the party was just a small group of joy.

Now, three years later, the party has moved from home to hotel, and the scale has changed from a family gathering to an annual company meeting.

Don't say it, whether it's the number of participants or the part that says New Year's resolutions, it's a bit like the company's annual meeting.

At the dinner, dozens of people mingled and a variety of delicacies were dizzying.

The New Year's Eve team building has made the whole team twist into a rope, which can be reflected in the results in January.

The Wizards lost three games in December, two of which were due to back-to-back road games and poor team form.

The other was Sanders trying something else and eventually capsizing in the gutter.

But after entering January, the Wizards team that had been built by the team once again ushered in a wave of consecutive wins, and the Wizards' record in January was also a complete victory after the full victory in November!

Li Kaiming's average data per game has not changed much, but his right-hand man, Leonard and Thompson have become more and more hot after half a season of training.

On January 26, the voting results of the New Orleans All-Stars were announced.

Li Kaiming received 1.65 million fan votes, becoming the All-Star vote king for three consecutive years.

Leonard received a total of 190,000 votes in three rounds, and although he did not enter the All-Star Game, he was selected for the first time and was ranked 7th in the Eastern Conference frontcourt.

Thompson, for his side, received a total of 160,000 votes, also in seventh place in the Eastern Conference.

The second general is growing into an All-Star caliber player at the fastest pace.

The best players of the month in the east and west are still Li Kaiming and Durant, and this season on the list of best players of the month, they are basically the second in the flow and the first in the iron game.

But it may have been the fight at the end of December that angered Durant, who seemed to be a different person after the New Year, and was in hot form.

Durant averaged 35.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 6 assists per game throughout January, which also allowed him to surpass Li Kaiming in the scoring list and temporarily rank first in points per game.

This month's performance has brought Durant's mVp call back to the top!

Especially after his average points per game surpassed Li Kaiming, many Amerika basketball commentators have begun to shout on social media:

"Li Kaiming has won the regular season MVP for two consecutive seasons, and he really deserved it in the previous two seasons, because he was the scoring champion and led his team to the best record in the league.

But this season, Kevin Durant's dominance in scoring surpassed him, although the Wizards are still the league's No. 1 record, but we have to consider that this is Li Kaiming's third mVp, and it is the third in a row, unless he can lead the team to a history-making regular season record, otherwise in my case, Kevin Durant is the one who is more worthy of mVp......"