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Chapter 90 Second in the West!

January 1996, 1, New Year's Day.

The new year has arrived.

It's just that it's New Year's Day here in America.

For Laomei, Christmas is the day when the year turns over.

Fortunately, no one is optimistic about the Trail Blazers before the season.

David Stern didn't schedule a Christmas game for the Trail Blazers.

Malone was resting at home on Christmas Day, watching the game while making out with Theron, it was so cool.

There is no game on New Year's Day.

Malone spent a simple New Year's Day at home with Theron.

He is an orphan.

When he was 17 years old when he was studying abroad, his parents were angry because they learned that there was no chance to play, so they took a box and passed away.

The only relative is Theron who has just received a marriage certificate.

Oh, by the way, there is also an unborn child in the belly.

The holidays are all arranged by Theron, and Ma Long uses his physical strength to move things.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Ma Long turned on the TV to watch the news.

The TV was turned on, which happened to be the official NBA press conference.

David Stern announced that Scottie Pippen was the player of the month for December.

"Why Pippen?"

Theron leaned in his arms with some doubts.

She didn't know much about basketball at first, but because of Malone, she is now considered a professional fan.

The Bulls are very good, 25 wins and 4 losses, the first in the league.

But Jordan is much better than Pippen with 25.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists.

In 29 games, Jordan averaged 31.8 points per game, scored 3+ 50 times, and his personal efficiency reached 30.3, which is unreasonable.

In terms of emotion and reason, the best player of the month has to go to Jordan anyway.

"Who knows, maybe it's to reduce Jordan's influence?"

Ma Long didn't bother to think about the things behind it.

It turns out that time and space is Pippen's best month.

Not only that, after playing for two months, Jordan only won the best of the week once.

Who knows what the league is thinking.

At this time, on TV, David Stern announced that Malone won the Rookie of the Month Award for December.

Ma Long laughed: "Anyway, my best rookie is stable."

Theron thought about it, and put this matter behind him, enjoying the New Year's Day with Malone.

After resting for a day, Malone kissed Theron at night, and got on the bus with his things.

The Knicks will be played away tomorrow, and today I have to fly there.

If it wasn't for New Year's Day, Bob might have to fly in the morning, considering the customs of Malone's hometown.

With this half-day rest, Malone is already very satisfied.

In the early hours of the morning, the Blazers' special plane arrived in New York, and the players went into the hotel to continue sleeping.

Malone woke up on time at eight o'clock because of his biological clock and badge.

I didn't feel sleepy after waking up, so I just got up, washed up and had breakfast, reported to the coach, and left the hotel to buy some things.

Tactical meeting at noon and simple training in the afternoon.

There is nothing to practice.

The Knicks have recently been caught in conflict within the team.

The relationship between the veterans headed by Ewing and Don Nelson became more and more tense.

If nothing else, Don Nelson has entered the countdown to leaving the team.

In this case, the Knicks are naturally not the Blazers' opponents.

Although the Knicks put up an iron-blooded defense and clung to the score, Ewing's physical fitness couldn't bear it in the last few rounds of the fourth quarter.

Relying on the advantage of static talent, Ma Long forcibly chiseled two balls on Ewing's head, completely opened up the point difference, and won the game 103 to 98.

Iron blood defense consumes more energy.

Malone might not be able to stand before his physical fitness was strengthened, but after his physical fitness is strengthened to 99 points, he can still perform stably even in the strongest defensive confrontation, and consume dead Ewing, scoring 30 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks.

Before they had time to celebrate, the Trail Blazers rushed to Boston to play against the Celtics.

The Celtics suck right now.

In order to pursue Duncan before, he has been doing badly.

Now that Duncan has announced that he will not participate in the draft this year, the Celtics can't do it if they want to get up.

Although the Trail Blazers are limited by back-to-back influences, as long as Malone is there, the Trail Blazers will still be able to crush the past steadily.

Under Malone's steady performance, the Celtics were beaten by the Trail Blazers.

At the end of halftime, they had already led by 20 points.

At the end of the three quarters, he was put into garbage time, and Ma Long once again enjoyed the treatment of clocking in the three quarters.

In the end, the Trail Blazers easily defeated the Celtics 110 to 95, improving their record to 26 wins and 5 losses.

Malone played 28 minutes and easily scored 25 points, 18 rebounds and 4 blocks.

The Celtics are too bad inside, and Malone has more experience in rebounding.

To be precise, Ma Long now knows better how to abuse food and brush data.

Without Sabonis sharing the rebounds, it is too easy for Malone to rebound.

After a day off, on January 1, the Trail Blazers challenged the Bucks away.

This time Malone and Sabonis were both present.

The twin towers sit in the paint area, and Wen Baker and Glenn Robinson can't be rampant, and they have turned into hat boys.

After being blocked by Ma Long for several times, he gave up the breakthrough and floated outside to project.

These two can't play well, the Bucks are a super belly, and they were easily defeated by the Trail Blazers.

It was a pity for Malone to look at his stats of 28 points, 15 rebounds and 7 blocks.

It would be great if the two of them kept fighting.

In this way, a triple-double can be drawn.

Although you can't brush it out, it's not bad to be able to clock in three quarters.

After this game, the Trail Blazers also ended their away trip and flew back to Portland after a few days to play against the Timberwolves at home.

At 1 o'clock in the evening on January 7, the referee came to the middle circle with the ball.

Malone was a little surprised to see Garnett, who was starting opposite him.

I don't know if it's Malone's influence, but Garnett, who used to be a substitute for a long time in time and space, is now a starter.

At this moment, Garnett suddenly said, "Thank you for your email."

If it weren't for Ma Long's chicken soup, he might still be able to fight high, but it will inevitably be affected.

After all, the locker room leader is Christian Laettner, who likes to exert negative energy on his teammates.

Now with that email from Malone, Garnett came to his senses and took the initiative to compete.

Relying on the halo of 'infighting power +5', Garnett won the starting position.

Ma Long said in his heart that it was indeed his relationship, and said, "It's nothing."

There is no time for much chatting.

The referee blows the whistle to start the game and throws the ball into the air.

Garnett took off quickly and dialed the basketball before Malone.

Malone knew in his heart how strong Garnett's jumping ability was, so he just thought about it and immediately went to block the position to prevent the Timberwolves from fast attacking.

The fast break failed, and the Timberwolves finally had Malone singled by Christian Laettner.

Christian Laettner showed a pass and was blocked by Malone.

Malone: ​​It's all bells and whistles.

Compared with the last match, Ma Long's strength has improved far beyond Christian Leitner's imagination.

Christian Laettner, who still sees Malone in the past, is sad.

The Blazers attack.

Christian Laettner wanted to save face, so he slapped Malone.

Before the black hand was released, he was beaten with an elbow by Ma Long, ignoring the pull + pull + small movements, forced to squeeze into the basket and hit the basket.

This round of fighting also indicates the gap in strength between the two teams.

Even if Garnett and Christian Laettner take on Malone together, it won't work.

Garnett is very talented, but he is not yet the first-class scorer who will average 9+ per game for 20 consecutive years in the future.

Especially in the face of the Trail Blazers' two-tower lineup, Garnett is not good at defending anyone.

His so-called comprehensive skills, with Ma Long's absolute strength and static talent advantages, it is difficult to make a shot.

The confrontation is too bad.

Malone doesn't need an elbow, and normal confrontation is enough for Garnett to drink a pot.

Malone wants to play hard in the low post, whether it is Christian Laettner or Garnett, they can sit on their ass and become GG.

Garnett tries to circle the front to defend.

Then there was the cooperation of the two towers of the Trail Blazers, Sabonis made a pass, and Malone made consecutive lobs.

Other players also lack the ability to fight tough battles, and they don't feel hot enough to explode. Under such circumstances, the Trail Blazers finally easily defeated the Timberwolves and came to a wave of four consecutive victories.

The record reached 28 wins and 5 losses.

The record is only behind the Bulls with 28 wins and 4 losses, and the gap with the teams behind them has widened, and they have secured the first place in the Western Conference and the second place in the league!

This record was beyond everyone's expectations before the season, and it also affected the All-Star voting.

According to the results of the first day of voting on December 12, Malone only ranked third among Western forwards, with only 26 to [-] votes a day.

The top two western forwards are Barkley and Kemp.

But after New Year's Day, the Trail Blazers played another wave of mighty victories under the stable performance of Malone, and once again defeated the super insider Ewing head-on.

On January 1th, the Trail Blazers beat the Heat again, and the number of votes Malone won increased again, directly reaching 10 votes!

10 tickets!
This isn't the information-rich future that's decades away.

These days, All-Star voting is very troublesome.

The figure of 10 is a threshold, making Ma Long the first player among all All-Star candidates in this year's All-Star voting to get more than 10 votes in a single day!

In the next few days, the number of votes Malone won also stabilized at around 7 per day.

Even the loss to the Denver Nuggets did not affect Malone's vote count.

Until January 1, the league announced the results of the second round of All-Star voting. Malone surpassed Barkley's 17 votes with 101 million votes, ranking No. 96 in the Western Conference, and the Western Conference forward first.

Second only to Olajuwon's 115 million votes.

In the entire league, Malone's votes can also be ranked fourth.

The first is Grant Hill with 123 million votes.

The second is Jordan with 119 million votes.

The third is Olajuwon, and the fourth is someone else.

And based on the current trend, and Malone's steady performance, most of the media believe that Malone is likely to surpass Olajuwon's votes.

It is not impossible to even reproduce Grant Hill's rookie season All-Star vote leader.

Grant Hill led a group of new fans to vote last season.

Malone also brought the same effect in this era of rapidly increasing NBA fans.

Not to mention, Ma Long also influenced many Chinese in the United States.

Under this excitement, the Trail Blazers also ended the rest of January with a record of 36 wins and 7 losses.

On the first day of February, the big boss of the NBA personally added fire to Malone.

On February 2st, the NBA's official regular press conference broke big news.

David Stern announced that Malone won the Player of the Month and Rookie of the Month for January
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