The Lakers continued to move forward with an irresistible momentum.

The suspense of the season gradually changed from who is stronger and who is better to which team will become the first in the league, and who is more worthy of MVP.

This will be a topic that will keep fighting and will not stop in another ten years.

The season is in April. The Lakers fight for the best record in history, while the Cavaliers fight for LeBron James' first MVP.

However, the Lakers unexpectedly defeated the Magic, which made them have to pursue the second record in history.

In the end, their record was 70 wins and 12 losses.

The league's first record, breaking the best record in team history, surpassing the Cavaliers' 66 wins, and the Celtics' 62 wins, winning 13 more games than last season.

However, those who are ready to choose James as MVP obviously have a firmer reason.

The Cavaliers' winning games increased by 21 games compared to last season.

One is to lead the team to 70 wins when the No. 2 player in the team is reimbursed for the season, and the other is to lead the team to improve its record of 21 wins in the new season, which seems to be reasonable for anyone.

By comparison, James's data is better, and his teammates seem to be not as good as Kobe.

Which of the two of them became MVP, turned into a sharp debate.

Before the playoffs began, Wei Xia talked about the differences between the two in an interview: "LeBron is more comprehensive, and Kobe is more dangerous."

One is comprehensive, the other is dangerous.

After listening carefully, we can see that Wei Xia and the others have completely different views.

Wei Xia's evaluation of James is confined to the comprehensiveness of the data, but for Kobe, it is subjectively "more dangerous".

As for who can become MVP, Wei Xia’s answer is more interesting.

"In history, there is only one team with a record better than this year's Lakers. The defending champion will inevitably be targeted by other teams. It is extremely difficult to achieve another good result, but they improved 13 wins based on last season. I don't think it's difficult to increase 57 wins to 70 wins, which is less difficult than increasing 45 wins to 66 wins. 70 wins and 60 wins are different levels, one is quantitative change and the other is qualitative change."

Wei Xia did not simply support Kobe. He was well-founded and almost like a media person with voting qualifications, he pointed out who is better and who is stronger.

His position is clear.

Kobe, he chose Kobe.

Wei Xia's views soon poured into the critics circle, and many people supported him, and some even turned against him because of this.

It is hard to say what impact his remarks have on the final result.

Before the MVP voting starts, the playoffs will start first.

In the first round, the Lakers easily swept the Jazz.

As for the East, Wei Xia focused on the first round of the Cavaliers and the Pistons. He was trapped by contract matters before, so he didn't pay much attention to the game, and he didn't take the initiative to watch a Cavaliers game.

He wanted to know about this team that has made great progress.

The Cavaliers do not have a complex running system, and the offense does not involve the entire running that drives the whole body. There are not many fast attacks, but the opportunity battles and fast two-and-three-man team battles after the position appear very frequently. Therefore, the Cavaliers' current offense has changed the previous slow routine of hesitation, slowness, and adaptability.

In other words, in the past, their attacks were like heavy artillery bombardment, requiring calibration and commissioning; now they are light fast-firing guns, which can be lifted and fired. Therefore, they are much lighter and more automated, and do not require Xiao Mo or Deronti West to do the thinking they are not good at.

It is these small and short attacks that can be completed in 5 seconds that allow the Cavaliers to continuously play 12-0 in 5 minutes. Compared to the situation in which they used to rely on defensive suppression and a little bit of offense, the attack is now much more crisp and neat.

The previous Cavaliers' offensive themes were relatively polarized: the Lithuanian's inside singles or LeBron's high-position ball holding were all aimed at "single-opposite double-teaming-passing".

Now they are more active to the periphery, with an offensive jump shot ratio of more than 63%, completely clearing the inside for the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers used the range of Big Z, Xiao Mo, West and James, and used more cover to penetrate the inside.

Use cover to cut into the opponent's defensive system, and then find long-range shot opportunities for the shooter group and opportunities for the insiders.

Mo Williams is an excellent individual offensive, but the overall organization is not his best. But in the Cavaliers' short and light attacks, he can use his abilities to play: all-round jump shots, use covers to cut and pass the ball. Neither he nor West control the rhythm of the whole game like Billups, but he adapts to one or two attacks, but he does whatever he wants.

Through careful observation, Wei Xia discovered that James' progress on the offensive end: a long-distance two-pointer that is no longer ignored, and the empty cut is more flexible. Of course, it is also possible that today's Pistons are no longer as brave as they were, allowing James to perform at the best level.

His weak side suddenly accelerates tangentially towards the basket, which is the best weapon for the Cavaliers to dismember their opponents' system throughout the season - in the past he had to hold the ball around the cover and cut into the mountains and rivers, but now he can do it with a quicker score to catch West. Seeing his empty cut, he is as brave as the wide receiver in American football.

His back-body skills are still limited to turnover jump shots and left hooks, but the waist position used in the Beijing Olympics passes the ball back to the basket, and the effect is excellent with a weak side empty cut.

Another thing proves his comprehensiveness.

At the end of the season, he led the team in scoring, rebounds, assists and steals, and ranked second in blocks.

This is the point that he repeatedly aroused the spectators' surprise. How could the data be so comprehensive, without missing a single drop.

Entering the semi-finals, the Lakers play against the Rockets, and the Cavaliers play against the Hawks.

Although the regular season MVP, as the name suggests, only looks at the performance of the regular season, if two extremely close people encounter problems in the playoffs, they will inevitably shake the votes.

The Cavaliers swept the Hawks 4-0 and entered the Eastern Conference Finals.

On the other hand, the Celtics were reimbursed for Kevin Garnett season and advanced hard after an epic seven bloody battle with the Bulls, and then again fought to the seventh game with incredible strangling ability and better magic.

However, the Lakers suppressed the Rockets who had Yao Guo in all aspects in the interior, but broke the unbeaten golden body in the playoffs and took five games to advance.

Then, the voting day of mvp comes.

The reason why James' supporters decided to choose the Emperor as MVP is as follows: the data is more comprehensive, and the advanced data is especially so, which improves 21 games of victory, wins all the first two rounds of the playoffs, is selfless, and has excellent leadership than Kobe...

James is a hot star in the league, and his biggest plus point is his team winning 21 more games than last season.

As for data, in fact, before someone led the team to win the MVP with the eighth triple-double average per game, no one has ever seized the MVP with data in history. Therefore, the slight gap in data between Kobe and James has no impact.

Even, according to the logic of praising James, Kobe's reason for being elected MVP is even more impeccable.

The Lakers are the first in offensive and defensive efficiency in the league. Two rookies from Europe quickly adapted to the NBA and played at the first-team rookie level. With FMVP Wei Xia's season reimbursement, he led the team to 70 wins, winning 13 more games than last season. If this is not leadership, what else is he?

Leadership, legend, sense of gap, improvement in record performance, what you want, what you have.

Both are qualified, so, on the voting day of MVP, a rare vote in history determines the winning or losing.

Kobe defeated James with one vote and was elected as a regular season MVP for two consecutive seasons.

The media person who cast the key vote said: "It was wish that made me change my mind. He was right. It was no less difficult than increasing the 45-win team to 66. In my opinion, it was even better, because 70-winning wins represent the second in history, and the Lakers actually completed this without the second-ranked star in the team. I must support Kobe!"

Bill Simmons tweeted that day: "Why can you even lie on a stretcher when you fuckingly affect the ownership of MVP!"

Wei Xia didn't think it was his credit, but if Kobe wanted to pay a lot of money for it, he would be disrespectful.

Unfortunately, Kobe only has thanks and no rewards.

Wei Xia proposed to give some actual returns, but Kobe felt that any actual returns were not as important as his heart. His gratitude was better than that of a daughter.

Compared with his gratitude, Wei Xia wanted a daughter more from the bottom of her heart, but if she wanted to continue, it would be unreasonable, so she gave up.

The subsequent division finals further proved who is the best one.

The Lakers and the Cavaliers each competed in six games in the division finals.

However, the Lakers advanced to the finals, but the Cavaliers stopped in the Eastern Conference Finals.

James frantically scored 38 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists per game, but it was useless. The Cavaliers' lineup was restrained by the Magic and lost 4-2. The Lakers defeated the Nuggets led by Cameron Anthony 4-2. Kobe averaged 34 points, 5.4 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game in the series. He defended his title of Lianzhuang's MVP by winning the finals tickets.

Next, the story comes to an end.

The Magic restrains the Cavaliers, but in turn is not good at dealing with the Lakers.

The Lakers' biggest weakness, the inside, became the strongest point, and Ariza and Fernandez joined forces to fill the gap left by Wei Xia.

The Lakers held the match point 3-0.

game4

Wei Xia watched the live broadcast on TV, and the Magic did not lose like a team that was in desperate situation.

Because it is likely to be the last game of the season, the atmosphere in Orlando was tragic. A white angel Gina and Rashad Lewis said to the big screen. Everything seemed to be before the third game began, but it was only 0-2 behind at that time - three teams that were 0-2 behind in history turned the tables. But the 0-3 turn is unprecedented.

The Magic used a series of conversion attacks to show dignity in the first quarter, but the Lakers didn't care about their cutting. Blocked three-pointers and allowed to break through. Bynum made 2 of 9 shots in a single quarter, and Kobe took over the game early.

The Lakers killed the Magic with a bunch of frontcourt rebounds in the first quarter.

The Lakers' frontcourt rebounds came easily: because whenever they took action, the Magic's perimeter was ready to go.

The temperament shown by the Lakers is the temperament that the champion team should have.

They defended patiently, actively rushed to rebound, and waited for the magic to feel to go out. In the middle of the second quarter, the time to decide the game will come.

Ariza made two interceptions, Kobe scored two assists, Fisher scored two three-pointers, and Kobe made another mid-range shot. The climax of 16-0, and the game was locked in half.

And the other half is the third section.

The Lakers played a suffocating defense, forcing the Magic to make 3 of 14 shots in the first 14.

After Kobe scored two more three-pointers, everything was over.

During the timeout one minute before the end of the game, Kobe sat on the bench and looked around. Two times he covered his mouth with both hands and laughed, and he couldn't wait to twist his body as if he was too energetic. In the remaining half of the minute, Magic coach Stan Van Gundy took a note to explain tactics to the players. Kobe was already hugging Gasol and Fisher.

Not long after, the final whistle of the 2008-09 season was blown.

At the end of the game, Kobe subconsciously looked for Wei Xia. He wanted to have a hug with him. When he turned around, he realized that the man was not there and he had been no longer here for a season.

He was a little regretful. This was the sweetest moment of every season. Last season they shared their blood and sweat. Now the team has been successful again. The man who made the Lakers grow hard bones can only lie on the injury list and watch these changes silently.

Will he come back? Kobe is not sure, he heard that Wei Xia’s contract extension was not going well.

Kobe stood for a long time, and finally Fisher came over and hugged him.

Then, there is one more thing, this year's FMVP can only be Kobe.
To be continued...