Fearing that Kobe was suffering from injury like a ruptured Achilles tendon, he took the initiative to communicate with Kobe, making him obey the team's arrangements and management, and began to take a long respite.

After all, with Kobe's personality, he is extremely unwilling to do so, and even hates rotation rest. However, for the sake of his career and playoffs, Kobe chose to take a rotation rest under the persuasion of all parties.

In 14 games in March, Kobe played only 4 games and rested 10 games.

The same is true for Gasol.

But the Lakers did not make the record bad because of the rest of the two superstars.

The whole month of March.

The Lakers scored 13 wins and 1 loss and continued to lead the league.

After April.

The Lakers began to take turns to rest Jiang Chen and Curry, which made them lose two games.

April 15, US time.

The NBA regular season has come to an end.

The top eight quarter-finals in the east and west were born.

The Western Conference quarterfinals are:

1, Lakers (78 wins and 4 losses);

2, Thunder (60 wins and 22 losses);

3, Spurs (58 wins and 24 losses);

4, Nuggets (57 wins and 25 losses);

5, Clippers (56 wins and 26 losses);

6, Grizzlies (56 wins and 26 losses);

7, Rockets (45 wins and 37 losses);

8, Jazz (43 wins and 39 losses);

In the top eight Western Conference, the Lakers' record is inaccurate, and the super record of 78 wins and 4 losses has once again set the NBA regular season record.

Such a record makes other teams in the league sigh.

Apart from the Lakers' success, the most surprising thing among the remaining teams is the Nuggets.

Without superstars, the Nuggets relied on a group of young players to score a record of 57 wins, ranking fourth in the Western Conference.

However, the playoffs are the stage for superstars.

It is still a big suspense to see how far the Nuggets can go in the playoffs.

It is worth mentioning.

Jiang Chen's Warriors in his last life have already entered the playoffs this season under the leadership of Curry and Thompson.

However, in this life, Jiang Chen selected Curry and Thompson to the Lakers through the draft, which made the Warriors still in the reconstruction period and are still weak teams in the Western Conference and did not make it to the playoffs.

The top eight rankings in the East are:

1, Heat (66 wins and 16 losses);

2, Knicks (54 wins and 28 losses);

3, Pacers (50 wins and 32 losses);

4, Nets (49 wins and 32 losses);

5, Bulls (45 wins and 37 losses);

6, Eagles (44 wins and 38 losses);

7, Celtics (40 wins and 42 losses);

8, Bucks (38 wins and 44 losses);

The most surprising thing in this list is the Knicks. Under the leadership of Anthony, the Knicks have been soaring this season and have won the second record in the Eastern Conference.

This is the first time the Knicks have achieved such a record in more than a decade.

The more disappointing one is the Celtics.

After the Magic traded Howard, they entered the reconstruction period completely.

Although the Celtics, one of the three former Eastern Conference champions, did not trade, the team's strength declined by another level with the aging of Garnett and Pierce and the departure of Ray Allen.

This season, he can only rank seventh and survive, and he has no competitiveness in the playoffs.

After the ups and downs of last season, the Bucks made it to the playoffs again, but Odom was no longer in the team.

After being traded by the Lakers, Odom played a good goal for only one season with the Bucks, and then began to fall, and his competitive state gradually declined.

At the end of last season, the Bucks bought out Odom.

Then, Odom completely fell into a state of unemployment...

There is also the Bulls that fans are more concerned about.

Derek Ross was not injured and still maintained his superstar level, but the overall strength of the team is still average.

Especially as Boozer's competitive state declined, the Bulls' offensive firepower became even weaker.

The management has not had any substantial reinforcement for several consecutive years, which has made the Bulls' strength even more powerful and consumed Rose's peak period in vain.

......

After the rankings in the east and west were determined, the first round of the playoffs was also released.

The four Eastern Conference matches are Heat vs Bucks, Nets vs Bulls, Knicks vs Celtics, and Pacers vs Hawks.

The four-group matchups in the West are: Lakers vs Jazz, Thunder vs Rockets, Spurs vs Grizzlies, and Nuggets vs Clippers.

Compared with the four-group showdown in the East, the West is even more exciting.

Especially the series between the Thunder vs Rockets, it is full of highlights and gimmicks.

Harden's first season left the Thunder was met in the playoffs, and it has to be said to be fate.

There is also a series between the Spurs and the Grizzlies, which are also meeting old opponents, and are highly anticipated.

Before the playoffs started, the media conducted another inventory of the players in the season.

Jiang Chen is still the star with the most dazzling data, and he averaged 38.5 points, 12.3 rebounds, 11.5 assists, 3.2 steals and 2.3 blocks per game.

Although the score has dropped a lot compared with the previous seasons, and it is the first time in his career that averaging less than 40 points per game in a single season, Jiang Chen has significantly improved in other data.

Such performance also made him honor the king of scoring, assisting, and stealing the king of three statistics.

Jiang Chen's performance has also caused heated discussions around the world.

undoubtedly.

Under Jiang Chen's terrifying dominance, the remaining players were all foils.

April 17, US time.

The playoffs there officially started.

The Lakers face the Jazz at Staples Center.

Both sides are old rivals.

In the previous years, the Lakers eliminated the Jazz in the playoffs many times.

There is not much suspense for the Lakers in this round of the series.

The team's core players Jiang Chen and Kobe, the two superstars, only clocked in early and got off work after only more than 20 minutes.

Under Curry's leadership, Thompson, Leonard and others performed well and suppressed the Jazz.

95:119.

At the end of the game, the Lakers won the game with a huge advantage of 24 points and achieved a good start to the playoffs.

In the next week.

The Lakers won the Jazz three consecutive games with 101:122, 113:99, 125:105, and swept the Jazz with a big score of 4:0.ωωw..net

Advance to the second round.

At the same time, the Heat in the East also easily swept the Bucks and advanced to the next round.

The remaining sets of duels.

The most exciting thing is the Rockets vs. Thunder.

The Rockets, who have Howard and Harden, have a certain strength, but not many...
Chapter completed!