On the 10th, Zhou Quan and Big Ben flew to Washington.

Big Ben was still a draft undrafted that no one wanted before joining the SuperSonics, and now he has been selected as an All-Star, although he is still only a substitute, but he is also very happy, and he has been asking some questions about All-Stars on the road, saying ten times more than usual, which makes Zhou Quan annoyed.

For the sake of this all-star, Big Ben deliberately made himself a beautiful explosive head, which made him look taller.

This All-Star, in the end, it was the Western All-Star who won.

Zhou Quan didn't want to perform, but he couldn't help but be too strong, and he played casually, and he played 20 points and 20 assists, and won the AMVP for the third time after 7 years.

After the All-Star break, the schedule continues.

……

"Iron Fist, I'm getting married."

"I know, one day, you can give me an invitation."

"Tekken, sorry, no invitations, no one to help me with these things because of the tight schedule, but I hope you can attend my wedding to Vanessa."

The regular season came to an end, and on April 15, Zhou Quan suddenly received a call from Kobe.

It turned out that Kobe Bryant was going to get married, the date was April 19, and the regular season ended on the 18th, and Kobe invited him to the wedding.

"Kobe, are you kid crazy or stupid? How can I have time in such a hurry? Why not wait until after the playoffs? Zhou Quan scolded.

"I can't wait."

Kobe Bryant said irritably, and then said: "Iron Fist, I've calculated, you have time, your last game is to play the king away." ”

Zhou Quan thought for a while and said, "Okay, but the time is too unfortunate, I can only come here alone, and my wife can't spare time." ”

"It's okay, it's good if you can come." Bryant said happily.

……

On April 18, the regular season ended.

In the last away game against the Kings, the SuperSonics won, and the Kings were tied with three wins and one loss.

The SuperSonics are once again on a 70-70 win, this time 71-11, one more win than in the '95/96 season.

Zhou Quan played in 82 games, started 82 games, averaged 40.5 minutes per game, and averaged 34.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 15.5 assists, 3.4 steals, 1.5 blocks, 1.8 turnovers and 1.8 fouls per game.

The shooting percentage was 54.5%, the three-point shooting rate was 42.5%, and the assist-to-turnover ratio was 7.5, all of which were big increases from last season.

This season, he ranked first in the team in playing time, first in the team in shots, first in scoring, first in steals, first in assists, first in defensive efficiency, first in personal plus/minus, and first in shooting percentage.

In addition, he averaged a career-high number of assists per game, up from 14.8 per game in the 94/95 season.

2,805/18,871 regular season and career points this season; 361/3022 rebounds, 1271/8579 assists, 279/2775 steals and 123/938 blocks.

Not surprisingly, he will have career stats such as 20,000 points and 3,000 steals and 1,000 blocks next season.

However, it is estimated that the system has no rewards, and when the rebounds reached 3,000 a few days ago, the system did not move at all.

He won the scoring title for the fourth time, the assist title for the seventh time, and the steal title for the seventh time.

After the game, in the away team's locker room, Zhou Quan, who came out of the shower, took a look at his data and put it away, and he didn't pay much attention to these now.

McMillan said: "Iron Fist, you've hit a career-high percentage this season, surpassing Jordan's career-high season-high shooting percentage.

In addition, your assists have set a new league record, with 15.5 assists being the highest since the record of the assist king. ”

"I'm in okay shape this season."

Zhou Quan smiled, turned around and asked, "Ben, how many rebounds do you have?" ”

"13.3 pcs." Ben Wallace said with a look of regret.

McMillan said: "Big Ben is a bit of a pity, the rebounding leader is Mutombo, 13.5. Big Ben only needs to grab 17 more rebounds, and he will be the rebounding king. ”

"Keep working hard next season." Zhou Quan encouraged.

"The king of blocks is Ratliff, 3.7." McMillan said.

Zhou Quan said with a smile: "The Philadelphia Digital team is playing well in the East, with Iverson on the outside, Ratliff on the inside, and Mutombo, the rebounding king.

However, Theolatrive was reimbursed for the season, couldn't play the playoffs, and broke a big player on the inside, and his luck was not too good. ”

McMillan took out a piece of paper and said, "Now I'll talk about the situation in the playoffs......"

The top eight in the Eastern Conference playoffs are, the Numbers, the Bucks, the Heat, the Knicks, the Raptors, the Hornets, the Magic, and the Pacers.

The top eight Western Conference playoffs are, SuperSonics, Spurs, Lakers, Kings, Mavericks, Jazz, Suns, and Trail Blazers.

In the first round of the Eastern Conference, the numbers vs. the Pacers, the Knicks vs. the Raptors, the Bucks vs. the Magic, and the Heat vs. the Hornets.

Western Conference first-round matchups, SuperSonics vs. Trail Blazers, Kings vs. Mavericks, Spurs vs. Suns, Lakers vs. Jazz.

After reading the list, McMillan said with emotion: "Now our competition in the west is really strong, much stronger than in the east, there are only three teams in the east with more than 50 wins, and the top eight teams in the west are all with more than 50 wins." ”

When Ewing heard this, his face suddenly became bitter.

He remembered the time when the Celtics, the Hutch, and the Bulls were strong, and the Knicks struggled in the East and struggled to get ahead.

At this time, the head coach said: "It's hard to say in the second round, the strength of the Kings and Mavericks is close, and the two teams are tied 2-2 in the regular season." ”

"Paul, whether it's the Kings or the Mavericks, I don't think there's a problem," McMillan said. ”

Paul Weiss nodded, shook his head and said, "Don't be careless, we will play the Kings with three wins and one loss, play the Mavericks and win all four games, and play the Mavericks with greater certainty." ”

After Ewing came to the SuperSonics, he rarely spoke in the locker room, his personality became more and more dull, very inactive, and then as he played better and better in the regular season, he was firmly in the first place in the league, and his mood was getting better and better, although he still didn't talk much, but it could be seen that he was in a good mood.

At this time, he said: "It is true that we can't be careless, if the king's offensive system goes crazy, and our state is average, we may also capsize." ”

Zhou Quan nodded and said, "At any time, we have to go all out, OK?" ”

“OK。” The locker room immediately resounded with a neat response.

McMillan analyzed: "In the Western Finals, our opponents can't say well, the Spurs and Lakers are very strong. This season we are also three wins and one loss with the Spurs, and the same is true with the Lakers. ”

"Our real opponent is only one of these two teams. If we make it to the finals, whoever the East is, will not be our opponent. So just like last season, the Western Conference is our grand final. Westphaal nodded.

After discussing the situation of the playoffs for a while, Zhou Quan went to the press conference.

The host handed over the first question to Zhang Lili, who took the microphone and said happily: "Zhou Quan, congratulations, you once again won the honor of scoring champion, assist champion, steal champion, and triple crown." ”

"Thank you!"

"MVP should be fine, you've been at the top of the charts this season, and you haven't come down." Zhang Reasonable said.

"It's hard to say, it doesn't count until the results come out." Zhou Quan shook his head and said with a smile.

"Playing the Trail Blazers in the first round, it's definitely no problem, but in the second round, do you want to play the Kings or the Mavericks?" Zhang asked reasonably.

"Brother Zhang, who do you want to fight?" Zhou Quan asked with a smile.

"Of course I want to hit the calf, hehe!" Zhang Li said with a smile.

"Then I hope to fight the calf."

Zhou Quan said with a smile: "The Mavericks traded Kristen Leitner, and now I have more opportunities with the Mavericks than before, and my performance is better than at the beginning, and I also hope to play a series with him." ”

……

At the end of the regular season, the first round started on the 21st and 22nd, and the supersonic started on the 21st, and there was not much time to rest, the team had two days off, and training was arranged on the 21st.

On the morning of the 19th, Zhou Quan took the earliest plane, a 600-kilometer flight, and arrived in Los Angeles at 10 o'clock.

"What about your guests? Kobe, what about your family? ”

It took an hour to rush to the church where Kobe Bryant held his wedding, but he found that there was no guest, not even Kobe's family did not appear, and no one from the Lakers showed up, only Vanessa's family, what is this doing? Secretly married?

The most important thing is that none of Kobe's family members appeared, without the blessing of his family, according to American tradition, without the blessing of his family, the marriage will not be happy, which is the biggest regret and a flaw for Kobe and Vanessa.

“……”

Kobe's face was very ugly, and Vanessa was also gray, her eyes were slightly red, and she had obviously cried.

Even the priest who presided over the wedding also had a face of pity.

"I'm the only one who co-authored?"

Zhou Quan was a little worried that the two of them couldn't stand it, and said with some regret: "I knew that I would arrange for my wife to fly over, so many guests." ”

He thought for a moment and asked, "When is the wedding time?" ”

"Half an hour to go." Kobe Bryant said through gritted teeth.

"Wait, maybe your family will come." Zhou Quan comforted.

"They have already said that they will not attend my wedding." Kobe Bryant's face turned pale.

Zhou Quan shook his head, originally he wanted to help Kobe invite a few guests over, but after thinking about it, he forgot it, because the most important thing is Kobe's family, if the family doesn't come, even if there are a few guests, it doesn't make much sense.

In the end, Kobe's family still didn't show up.

……

On the 19th, the alliance announced the attribution of a series of honors such as five data kings and DPOY.

Paul Westfaal led the team to 71 wins and won the best coach, Mutombo won the DPOY, Rookie of the Year Mike Miller and many more.

On the 20th, the Trail Blazers arrived in Seattle.

Many media predicted that the SuperSonics will be stronger than last season, winning the championship in the playoffs last season with an 11-1 record, and this season has a chance to defend the title with a winning record.

That afternoon, Roger Philip came to Zhou Quan's house.

Zhou Quan's lawsuits have all been concluded, and all 11 lawsuits have been won, and in addition to the high fees paid to the lawyers' team, he has received a total of $1,262.5 million in compensation, an average of $114 million per lawsuit.

"Zhou, now the yachts bought by the big tycoons of the yacht association are getting bigger and bigger, they are already thousands of tons, similar to frigates, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, do you have any ideas?" Philip asked with a smile.

Zhou Quan really has the idea of changing a yacht, his Iron Fist has been a little unable to keep up with the situation in the past two years, and those big yachts can also travel around the world, which is very attractive to him.

He has little interest in luxury cars, nor is he interested in private jets, he just likes yachts.

Now that I have so much cash on hand, I can take out some of it to continue to invest in domestic jazz coffee, and the rest of the money is enough to buy several hundreds of millions of dollars in big yachts.

"Rogge, you can help me collect some information first."

“OK。 So is this one for sale? ”

"Of course not, even if you book now, it will take nearly two years to get it, and you can sell this ship next year."

“OK。”

……

On the 21st, the first round of the supersonic series began.

Before the start of the competition, Zhou Quan received the trophies of the three individual data kings.

On the 25th, the SuperSonics completed a sweep of the Trail Blazers away from home and took the lead in the second round.

The Kings and Mavericks were tied at 2-1, with the Kings taking the lead for the time being.

In the East, the Philadelphia Numbers lead the Pacers 2-1 and the Knicks lead the Raptors 2-1.

On the 28th, little Zhou Yuan was one year old, and the Zhou family held a ceremony to catch Zhou at home, but they didn't invite guests, only the family.

Xiao Zhouyuan was able to walk when he was nine and a half months old, but he still mainly climbed, and by the time he was eleven months old, he mainly walked, and now he is walking quite steadily.

In terms of physical fitness, the arms and legs are not short, the reaction is fast, the movements are also very sensitive, the coordination is good, and the static dynamic talent is basically inherited from Zhou Quan's talent, as for how much it has been inherited, it is not good to say now.

In terms of speaking, I can say simple overlapping words, parents, grandparents, etc., and I can't speak complex things, let alone long sentences.

His hukou was already in Changsha when he returned to China last time, and now, like Zhou Quan and the others, he takes his passport to apply for a visa and renews it regularly.

After that, the first round continued, and in the end, the Kings eliminated the Mavericks 3-2, the Spurs eliminated the Suns 3-1, and the Lakers eliminated the Jazz 3-1.

In the East, the Numbers eliminated the Pacers 3-1, the Knicks eliminated the Raptors 3-1, the Bucks eliminated the Magic 3-1, and the Hornets swept the Heat.

Thus, by 4 May 2001, the first round was completed.

Second round matchups, East, Numbers vs. Knicks, Bucks vs. Hornets; In the West, the SuperSonics vs. the Kings, the Spurs vs. the Lakers.

The second-round series starts on the 5th, and there is only one game on the 5th, the SuperSonics vs. the Kings, and the remaining three groups are all on the 6th.

The league can't arrange the schedule like this, because whoever wants to play on the same day as the SuperSonics, even if it is a Lakers game, will be seriously affected.

The SuperSonics ended the first round on the 25th, and the second round only started on the 5th, and there were no games for 9 days, so the team took 5 days off and then resumed training from May 1 to recover the form.

(End of chapter)