December 29, the last game day of 1996, the Lakers faced the challenge of the Sacramento Kings at home.
After a tough offensive battle, the Lakers narrowly defeated the Kings 113-108 and won their third consecutive victory.
The Kings¡¯ Mitch Richmond scored 32 points and Billy Owens scored 29 points, leading the Kings to a very strong offense.
Thanks to the poor defense of the Kings, Zhang Hao scored 25 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 block and 2 steals, Kenny Anderson scored 22 points and 8 assists, O'Neal scored 23 points and 11 rebounds, and Byron Scott scored 16 points. , Magic scored 5 points and 7 assists and won the game with difficulty.
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"The Celtics and Kings are so useless! Richmond is so rubbish! Suck cough cough cough" Jordan was so angry that he took a deep breath of the cigar, almost choked to death, and quickly threw the cigar away.
In the past, Larry Bird injured his back while weeding and building roads and retired early. Later, Michael Jordan cut a cigar and permanently damaged the nerves in his fingers, which left a psychological shadow.
January 1, 1997, the new year has arrived.
At 12 noon, NBA officially announced the best of the month awards for December 1996.
On December 30 last year, Zhang Hao won his second Best of the Week award in December, bringing his number of Best of the Week awards to three this season.
The key is that the two best-of-the-week awards in December allowed him to win the Player of the Month Award for December 1996 at noon today!
In terms of Rookie of the Month, there are two people tied. Sharif Rahim of the Grizzlies and Corey Kittles of the Nets jointly won the Rookie of the Month award in December.
Sharif Rahim played 17 games in December, averaging 21.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game. Corey Kittles played 16 games, averaging 20.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game.
The competition among the rookies in the 1996 class is extremely fierce. Iverson averaged 17.7 points, 4.4 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 1.6 steals per game in December. He focused more on strengthening the organization and offense. He also did quite well personally and performed very well. , but still failed to win the Rookie of the Year Award.
Jordan doesn¡¯t care about the Rookie of the Month award at all, all he cares about is the Player of the Month award!
After the first two months of competition, the Bulls' record was 27 wins and 5 losses. Last month, they achieved a record of 13 wins and 3 losses, which was a very good performance.
However, the Lakers went 13-1 last month
The Lakers were in such bad shape after the Christmas Day game. After the game between the Lakers and the Celtics, Jordan expected the Kings to upset the team. Although the Kings had only a record of 13 wins and 17 losses at that time, they were eighth in the Western Conference. , As a result, the Kings were not strong at the critical moment. Richmond was intercepted by Zhang Hao after the official timeout in the fourth quarter, which directly caused the Kings to lose the chance to equalize the score with a goal, and finally lost by 5 points.
Originally, if the Lakers lost one more game in December, Jordan might still be able to rely on more wins to complete his consecutive best-of-the-month
He has played in the regular season for 10 months since his comeback, and Jordan has only won the Player of the Month award once. Although it is more difficult to win the Player of the Month award this year regardless of the Eastern and Western Conferences, in Jordan's career, he has not won the Player of the Month award since he was a rookie. After the season, there has never been a situation where he only won the best of the month in 10 months.
Jordan is really angry!
It was robbed once in December 1995, and again in 1996!
Think about it again, in December 1995, he was defeated once by Zhang Hao at home. In December 1996, Zhang Hao went even further and stole his team's single-quarter scoring record at home
Jordan feels that Zhang Hao is his nemesis in December!
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When the Lakers won three consecutive victories to end all games in 1996, people already knew that Zhang Hao was going to win the best of the month.
However, the Lakers¡¯ performance after the Christmas Day game was still very unexpected.
Originally, the media and fans thought that after the Christmas game, the Lakers would enter a new level because Barkley played so well against the Bulls, and the Lakers also showed their performance against the Bulls this season. The strongest strength.
However, instead of performing better, the Lakers seem to have regressed. They are back to the beginning of the season, playing 50-50 against everyone
However, it is not just the performance of the Lakers that has declined, but all teams with good records have experienced a decline in strength after the Christmas game.
In this stage where the three-point line is shortened, teams with good records are usually strong defensive teams. Fierce confrontations, with up to 17 and at least 13 games in a month, are very taxing on the major teams.
Although the Lakers focus on offense, the confrontation consumption will definitely not be small, because they have to deal with strong defensive teams.
At this time, teams with poor records are more active.
Weak team"Continuous injuries in the regular season like the Rockets"
However, seeing Byron Scott and Brian Shaw standing with Barkley Zhang Hao gave up the idea of ??leveraging Barkley's strength.
Now this guy is thinking about how to mess with his bald head!
??Forget it, it has also led to the wrong style of the two future head coaches!
Of course Barkley doesn't want to see injuries or teammates get injured. However, he has been playing for more than ten years. Not to mention the number of times he has seen his teammates injured, he has been injured many times, and both his hands and feet have been injured. He has lost count. He has never been seriously injured, but minor injuries are common.
This kind of thing is inevitable. As time goes by, you will naturally accept it.
Facing injuries to yourself and your teammates is something that a professional player must experience and accept.
A large part of the money they get is to pay for their current or future soup and medicine expenses.
Barkley is not the only one on the Lakers who has a bald head. Brian Shaw and Byron Scott all suffer from the same pain as the players wearing No. 23 jersey.
At this moment, their pain was understood.
And for Zhang Hao, this is a kind of torture!
Seeing Zhang Hao coming, the two future coaches still couldn't save face. They also had a sense of hiding their ears and stealing the bell, and they didn't dare to look directly at others.
But Buckley was different. He immediately ran to Zhang Hao and asked: "Akers, which designer did you hire for your wig? The design was too good. The designers I hired were all so bad that they couldn't design it at all." A wig that fits like yours!¡±
Zhang Hao didn¡¯t want to look directly at Barkley¡¯s afro, so he turned his head and said, ¡°I didn¡¯t hire a designer.¡±
¡°That¡¯s what you designed yourself? Oh my god, help me design one too!¡±
"That's not what I meantOkay! I'll help you design it!"
Zhang Hao was originally depressed because of his big fat injury. Seeing that Barkley, the team's second-best boss, ignored the basketball court and only focused on hairstyling, he decided to do something to change his mood!
"Okay! Ax, what kind of hairstyle do you think is suitable for me? Watermelon hair is not good, I don't want that."
"Don't worry, it's definitely not a watermelon head Is your wig expensive?"
"expensive."
"As long as it's expensive, come on Hey, Teacher Tony, bring me a pair of scissors"
What does it mean to be expensive? Scissors do you want to get started?
Before Barkley could react, Zhang Hao pulled him to the mirror in the lounge.
Without giving Buckley a chance to struggle, Zhang Hao directly lifted up Buckley's wig, and it actually stuck to the skin-like fake skin, and the fake skin stuck to his head!
No wonder it looks just like the real thing!
Zhang Hao has only used the wig given by the system, which is completely different from this one.
It¡¯s really not a hassle! Isn't it troublesome to wash your bald head tonight? Sticky like tape.
It doesn¡¯t matter, as long as it¡¯s expensive!
Very quickly, it¡¯s done in just a few clicks
Before Barkley could react, the wig on his head had changed beyond recognition
"Mr. Buckley, next time you order a wig, please follow this. This wig is tighter and made into a long bullet shape. It is best to stand up on the top of the head, so that the heightening effect will be obvious
I¡¯m not saying you¡¯re short! "
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