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Chapter 1412 Change of Dynasty
What does a fourth career MVP mean to Benjamin Wilson?

Wilson himself felt nothing, and his MVP acceptance speech lasted less than five minutes.

For some, it means a lot.

It tied Benj with Larry Bird in MVPs.

"His greatness can't even be defined by MVP." Bird said modestly, "Benj is the best in history."

Byrd's personal testimony is not enough to put Benj on the throne, at least, his supporters will resist for a while.

It's just that when Benj's major honors are basically the same and surpassed, and he has a better career, there will be fewer reasons to support Bird to continue as GOAT, and there will be more and more reasons for Benj to be the new king.

The Western Conference Finals is a coronation ceremony that comes to your door.

The warriors who have just climbed over the mountain of the Trail Blazers are not ready to challenge the Lakers.

So at the beginning of G1, Wilson scored 46 points like a heavenly soldier, leading the team to bloodbath the Warriors.

"We don't come here full of joy and leave disappointed."

Penny put down a good sentence, and then, in the second game of the Western Conference finals, the talent of the Generation of Miracles shined, the Lakers scored in double figures with seven players, and scored 140 points without overtime, blasting the Warriors to pieces.

The big score was 2 to 0.

In the third game after that, Bodi Loga sent 20 assists in a single game, setting a new personal assist record in a single game.

The person who enjoyed the most assists from Bodi Loga was Wilson.

Bodi Loga broke the assist record, and Wilson tied his season single-game scoring record with 56 points in a single game.

The Lakers easily took a 3-0 lead.

This is their tenth consecutive win in the playoffs.

"From 1960 to now, this Lakers team is the most unbeatable team I've ever seen."

"The terrible thing is not that they haven't lost in the playoffs, but that you can't imagine how they lose."

"If the Lakers want to lose, first they have to be arrogant enough, and their opponents have enough strength to take advantage of this arrogance."

"Accidentally losing a game due to arrogance, this is the only possibility for the Lakers to lose."

In the fourth game of the Western Conference Finals with the Warriors, the two sides opened up and fought against each other.

Penny Hardaway played the best performance in the Western Conference Finals, with 42 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists in a single game, basically putting everything he has learned in his life into play.

For the Lakers, Wilson returned with a large triple-double of 30+, and Garnett became the team's single-game scoring leader with 38 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists.

As for the result, the Lakers' victory is a matter of course.

4 is better than 0
The Lakers advanced to the Finals with a perfect record in the playoffs.

After the game, Chinese guard Hu Weidong of the Warriors burst into tears.

This is the closest he has come to the Finals in many years of playing for the Warriors, but it ended in such a humiliating way.

Seeing him like that, Louis couldn't help laughing, "Look at you, why didn't you cry so badly when the national team won the quarter-finals."

"It's because I always win the top eight, I'm numb." Hu Weidong calmed down his emotions.

Louis patted Lao Hu on the shoulder, "This year we will try our best to advance to the semi-finals."

Lao Hu finally laughed, and he didn't know if he was amused by Louis, or because he had to take pleasure in bitterness because of the heavy burden on him.

Finally, the NBA season is over, and he has no time to rest, so he has to fly back to China to participate in the national team's training camp the next day.

This year is the year of the World Championships. As the outside core of the team, he should go early.

The Lakers won the tickets to the Western Conference finals, while the Eastern Conference finals tickets were contested between the Knicks and the Magic.

From the perspective of the lineup, the Knicks have a better chance of winning.

But the Magic's personnel mix is ​​more balanced. Tim Hardaway controls the ball, O'Neal and Webber sit inside, and a group of shooters on the flanks and benches. After four games, the two sides tied 2-2.

Although the Knicks' high-post dynamic offense focuses on Shaquille O'Neal, Ewing has repeatedly defeated the Magic with this tactic in the past few years, but this year, the Magic's shooters should not be underestimated.

O'Neal couldn't defend and couldn't defend, and the damage caused by taking the ball on the offensive end was also unbearable for the Knicks.

Ewing's strong personality made him unwilling to use the strength of his teammates to limit O'Neal.

He wants to do it alone.

When he was young, he could still fight head-on, but now O'Neal is close to his peak, and his destructive power in the low position far exceeds any insider that Ewing has encountered before.

The burden brought by the sharks, plus Ewing's own head iron, after five games, the injury still came to the gorilla.

Ewing suffered a stress fracture in his left leg while fighting for rebounds and was reimbursed for the season.

According to the medical observation report afterwards, the Knicks team doctor believed that Ewing's injury was due to the fact that Ewing's knee injury in the first round did not fully recover and he made a hasty comeback, which led to more serious injuries.

Without the barrier of Ewing, O'Neal played without any scruples, scoring 52 points and 26 rebounds in a single game, leading the Magic to a 3-2 lead over the Knicks.

In Game 6, the desperate Knicks used shark-slashing tactics while betting all their treasures on the outside.

Led by Reggie Miller, Hill, who came to the Knicks to train hard for a year of shooting, finally blossomed, and McGrady, the No. [-] pick that the team placed high hopes on, also showed talent.

There is a magic about Knicks.

That was what allowed them to build a dynasty, and it was also the secret weapon that allowed them to turn defeats into victories in times of crisis. Everyone who watched their games with their own eyes could feel its existence.

No matter how difficult the difficulty is, they will always grit their teeth and persevere, and then work together to make a certain point burst out with infinite power.

Tonight's Miller is "Noah," and he saves the world again.

But if there is no team to serve, even if Miller scored 20 three-pointers in a single game, I'm afraid it won't help.

3 is better than 3
The Knicks brought the game back to Madison Gardens.

But in the seventh game, the talents of O'Neal and Webber made the New Yorkers desperate.

What is the ultimate expression of talent?
On the basketball court, the most intuitive way to show talent is to grab the opponent's offensive rebounds.

You can do that when you have two dominant bigs.

This is where O'Neal and Webber made the Knicks desperate.

They made the Knicks completely unable to grab defensive rebounds. Every time the Magic missed, they had a second offense.

终场，奥尼尔和韦伯分别用38+22+7和24+20+5的数据让纽约人崩溃。

The duo alone grabbed 22 offensive rebounds.

In the face of such a gap in rebounds, the Knicks lost without any suspense, and were out of the game with a big score of 3 to 4.

For the first time since 1988, neither the Celtics nor the Knicks will play in the NBA Finals.

The Lakers are still a familiar face, but the breakout in the East is a stranger, the Magic, which has never appeared in the Finals before.

They have only established a team for ten years, and their history is so short that it can be ignored, but they have two supernatural talents, O'Neal and Webber.

Prior to this, everyone thought that the Magic would not be able to realize their talents until the new century at least came, but they achieved results by supplementing shooters with big insiders.

The two veteran teams, the Celtics and the Knicks, fell in front of them one after another, which is enough to explain their success.

Moreover, there are new teams emerging from both the east and west, which is a good thing for those who want fresh blood.

The dynastic change may have been quietly completed.

In professional sports, replacement is a very sudden process.

Those who were still dominant are suddenly pushed away and never regain their positions.

The Celtics, Trail Blazers, and Knicks have been dominant for a long time. Now it's time to give up their positions and replace them with the younger generation.

However, if you want to truly change the dynasty, you still need to beat the Lakers.

Because the head player of the Lakers is the strongest one among the older generation.

Louie doesn't care about whether to replace or not. It may be a good thing for the Magic to reach the finals.

In the regular season, the Magic won them a game with a black call, and many people refused to accept it.

Duncan was particularly dissatisfied because when he celebrated his birthday, someone wrote him a card in O'Neill's name.

"As the saying goes, it's not that we don't report, it's not time yet." Louis muttered on the training ground, "Since Orlando gave us a chance, we will give them a hard lesson in the finals, unless some of you still want to receive a greeting card from that fat man on your birthday!"

(End of this chapter)