Liu Mang never expected that he would suddenly win the scoring title for sure!

That night, the Magic team doctor made a preliminary diagnosis that McGrady had a strained back muscle. Although it was not a serious problem, he would be out for at least two weeks. There were less than two weeks left in the regular season. The Magic's regular season ended on April 15.

It is now April 2nd, which means McGrady is reimbursed for the regular season, and the Magic are last in the league. They had just won 16 games before McGrady was injured, and have nothing to do with the playoffs, which means they are reimbursed for the season!

Now Liu Mang can wait for the scoring champion to join him!

Liu Mang's happiness came suddenly, but the Hawks suffered a lot of heartache. After Tracy McGrady was injured and retired from the game, it was the Hawks' home game against the Raptors.

The Eagles are very confident, even though Liu Mang is not around, Ratliff, Raheem, and Prince are taking turns resting, that is, except for Rasheed Wallace, who has to take Boozer with him.

May Brown and Ostertag are the three substitutes inside and outside, and the other four are all taking turns.

When Korver forms an outside combination with Barnes and Stockton, and meets the outside combination of Rod Strickland, Alvin Williams, and Jaylen Rose, the defensive end is like going to heaven.

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This lineup looks down on the Raptors a little too much. They will jump over the wall when they are anxious. The Raptors accidentally won 29 games and ranked fifth from the bottom in the Eastern Conference. They are already far away from the No. 1 pick.

Competition, now their record is unable to surpass the Cavaliers and Celtics, let alone counterattack the Knicks and climb to eighth in the Eastern Conference. Before this game, they had already missed the playoffs.

Missing the playoffs, no matter how much we lose, we can't compete with the 16-win Magic, 21-win Bulls, 23-win Wizards, 25-win 76ers, or the 26-win Clippers and 27-win Jazz in the West.

Can't even grab it.

You can't go up, and you can't go down, so in the last few games, the Raptors have tried their best to win and cultivate Milicic's abilities.

Milicic has become more and more familiar with the NBA this season, mainly because he has become more accustomed to it. So far, he has averaged 27 minutes per game, 10.7 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists. He also has the most terrifying shot-blocking ability among this rookie class.

Average 2.2 blocks!

Milicic used the biggest highlight of his career to perform even better now that he has been given the opportunity to be trained!

An 18-year-old rookie, averaging 2.2 blocks per game, has demonstrated his potential as an interior defensive player and support core.

But relatively speaking, Milicic's footwork and shooting ability, which people are most optimistic about, performed very mediocrely, with a shooting percentage of only 44%, and he has not developed three-pointers. His mid-range shooting is pretty good, with 10%.

Thirty-five hit rate.

But even so, Milicic's performance has satisfied the Raptors enough. Selecting a team core with the fourth pick is not an easy task. Milicic's scoring has not been developed yet. The main thing is to have to deal with him.

It's related to being very thin.

A 2.13-meter center only weighs 100 kilograms. He has gained some weight during the season. It is already very good to have such shot-blocking and rebounding abilities.

Milicic's treatment makes Kwame Brown envious, so after Kwame Brown came on the bench today, he used his best physical fitness on the court and kept attacking the basket, mainly directly Stockton

When he was there, the Raptors couldn't defend against the Hawks' pick-and-roll offense.

However, the Raptors' offense couldn't be defended by the Hawks! Stockton and Korver's back line was a disaster! Not to mention Jason Terry came up.

When Stockton is here, he can still compete with the Raptors' offensive steel, and when Jason Terry feels good, he can still compete.

But when Jason Terry was shooting, he suddenly had a habitual power outage, and the characteristics of the nerve knife were undoubtedly evident. When Jason Terry felt cold and Stockton was away, Korver and the substitutes came on

Calderon is basically useless and can only rely on Rasheed Wallace or Boozer's singles and Kwame Brown's tip-ins.

To win the game by relying on offensive rebounds, it is still possible to have an accurate shooter with a shooting percentage of over 40% from the outside, and to maintain this shooting percentage with a large number of shots. For example, when Liu Mang is here, but Liu Mang is not there,

Others on the outside of the Hawks couldn't make shots, and they relied solely on grabbing offensive rebounds. In the second half of the third quarter, the Hawks collapsed after Stockton went down.

At this time, coach Kruger regretted not sending Raheem to press the attack. It was already too late.

In the end, the Hawks lost to the Raptors 97-105 at home.

The best performer on the Eagles side was actually Kwame Brown. Facing Milicic, he played 33 minutes and scored 25 points and 20 rebounds.

Milicic's scoring and rebounding were far inferior to Kwame Brown, but he organized the Raptors' offense! He got 11 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists.

Kwame Brown's first real confrontation with Milicic as the main player, the data did not lose to Milicic, even double-20 is a little rarer than triple-doubles. Kwame Brown had a slight advantage in the data, but he lost the game.

The Hawks' four-game winning streak was ended, and their record became 64 wins and 11 losses. The hope of tying the Bulls' 72 wins was completely extinguished.

But because of this, the Eagles are more open-minded!

Liu Mang rests at home with peace of mind. He is stable as the scoring champion, the team's last obsession has disappeared, and the MVP is also stable. Whether it is data or record, he is firmly ranked first in the MVP rankings, so he can rest assured.

Take a few extra days to rest and enjoy the rare opportunity to relax as the season progresses.

The Hawks have 7 games left, and it is not a big problem to get 4 wins and surpass the Lakers' new century record of 67 wins.

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After losing to the Raptors, the Hawks left Atlanta the next day to play a three-game road trip.

First, on April 4th and April 5th, there were back-to-back away games against the Clippers and Suns. The last and third last teams in the Western Conference were rubbed against the humiliating Hawks who lost to the Raptors.

Especially Rahim, who came back, and Jason Terry, who started like a tiger and was like a worm in the last game against the Raptors. Against the Clippers, the two scored 71 points together. Rahim scored a season-high 37 points.

, Jason Terry scored 34 points, and the two led the Hawks to 109-89, with a 20-point margin of victory over the Clippers, who were last in the Western Conference.

Against the Suns, Prince and Ratliff, Rasheed Wallace returned, and together with Stockton and Boozer, it was Howard Isley's best performance in his career when he strangled the point guard.

As for the guy who averaged 7 points and 4.0 points per game, the Suns kept their own statistics one by one without any cooperation and were easily suppressed by the Hawks' zone defense.

On the defensive end of the Suns, except for Shawn Marion, everyone else is simply eye-catching. With the defensive combination of Howard Isley, Leonard Barbosa, and Joe Johnson, Stockton scored 17 points and 11 points.

The double-double performance of assists led the Hawks to kill the Suns 113-85, with a score difference of nearly 30 points.

After this back-to-back, the Eagles' record improved to 66 wins and 11 losses, only one win away from tying the Lakers' best record in the new century!

And this day came very quickly. On April 7th, the last day of Liu Mang's mission punishment, the Hawks came to Milwaukee for the last of three consecutive away games to challenge the Bucks away from home.

Originally, the Bucks, who lost Payton, only had 4 national broadcasts this season, and they were all for the benefit of others, and there was no national broadcast at home.

But this time, because the Hawks may tie the Lakers' 67 wins, even though Liu Mang does not play, this can be regarded as a historical moment in the new century. T.N.T added this game to the broadcast. T.N.T is always so arrogant.

, the 67 wins created by O'Neal, who had a deep conflict with him, was about to be tied by Liu Mang's team, who had the same "grievance" with him. T.N.T paid a greater price to get the national live broadcast of this game.

Ba Pang felt like he was being targeted!

Not only was O'Neal targeting him with his championship, not only was Liu Mang targeting him by repeatedly hitting him in the face, even the boss was targeting him!

However, this game was very exciting. Reid played well in this game. No one could keep up with his running without the ball. He scored 44 points in a single game, helping the Bucks to compete with the Hawks.

Already.

However, there are only the last 5 games left. The Eagles' rest plan, which has been on and off for a month, has come to an end. They just want to win 67 games in this game!

If they can't guard Reed, the Eagles will guard everyone else.

If Reid's teammates are two of the league's top shooters plus a best defensive player and a championship MVP, he may kill his opponent by shooting alone, because even if his teammates are tightly guarded, they cannot be guarded to death.

But Reid doesn't have that fate! And he is not at the MVP level. He is very powerful, but he is only very powerful. He is a scorer who averages over 20 points per game and has little organizational ability. He just takes advantage of Liu Mang's absence and shoots on the run.

, scoring 44 points was very impressive, helping the Bucks not to be defeated by the Hawks in the first half. It was not until the third quarter that the Hawks' defense tightened up completely, and Reid could not lead these teammates.

In the third quarter, the Eagles scored 24-13 in a single quarter. The Eagles finally widened the point difference and were never caught up by the Bucks.

Although Reid finally scored 44 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, he was unable to prevent the Hawks from tying the Lakers' best record in the new century.

98 to 85, the Eagles won three consecutive away games, improving their record to 67 wins and 11 losses!

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"Senior Aida, let me try it and see if there are still nosebleeds. What if it doesn't work?"

"Ah... no, bad guy, get out quickly, or I'm going to scream!"

"You scream, no one will save you even if your throat is broken. I'm going to do something today, so stop struggling and just enjoy it silently..."

"Ah... Junior Ace, what are you going to do!"

Just when Alexia was about to refuse and welcome her, Liu Mang was so hungry and thirsty, and both of them were using such shameful names as senior and junior, Liu Mang's phone rang.

"Who is it!" Liu Mang shouted angrily.

"Hurry up and answer the phone, it's the team." Although Alexia is already distracted, Liu Mang has training in the afternoon and a game tomorrow. She can't hold it anymore physically, but as a teacher, mentally

The quality is still very strong and holds up.

Liu Mang reluctantly went to the clothes rack and took out his cell phone, and Alexia took the opportunity to escape.

Why are these two girls so "sensible" in this regard? Liu Mang loves Levia and Alexia more deeply because they will consider him in this regard. They are worthy of being teachers and eldest ladies.

Although he personally doesn't care about physical fitness, it feels good to have someone care about him like this.

I took out my phone and looked at it, it was the boss Price.

Damn! You deserve to have to go to nightclubs when you can’t find a girlfriend!

Liu Mang cursed. As soon as he answered the phone, a voice came from the other end of the phone: "Ace, Lang called me just now. Are you recovered?"

"Yes..." Liu Mang rolled his eyes.

"That's great! We are about to surpass the Lakers' win record in the new century at home. It's great that you can play in tomorrow's game!" Price on the other end of the phone was very excited.

Hearing this, Liu Mang was still a little proud, and said arrogantly: "Isn't it just a small record that surpassed a Lakers team? Is it necessary to be so excited?"

"Oh, Ace, I like your confidence, but this is Atlanta's greatest record. The Falcons have never had such a good regular season record. We have to celebrate this time. You can play the best

Okay, let’s help you celebrate your scoring title! You are the third scoring title on our team after Bob and Dominic, and you are also the player with the highest single-season scoring average and total points in the history of our team...
To be continued...