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In the first game of the playoffs, Worthy's injury once caused suspense in the outcome of the Lakers' game against the Suns.

But after timely adjustments to the roster, the Lakers still showed their heritage and strength as a champion team.

The backcourt combination of Magic Johnson, Michael Cooper and Zhou Chen is clearly stronger than before.

Cooper and Zhou Chen, two players who defended for a while, completely locked up the Suns' outside attack in the next two games.

The Lakers defeated the Suns 108-80, 111-107, and finally swept their opponents 3-0 to advance to the Western Conference semifinals!

Cooper was temporarily replaced in the starting line-up and achieved good results.

As the best 3D defensive player of this era, although Cooper is not as gorgeous as Worthy on the offensive end, he can steadily output points for the team on the off-ball end, and he works extremely the defensive end, taking the team's dirty work into his own hands.

In this way, it also greatly liberated Zhou Chen, allowing Zhou Chen to focus more on attacking.

Compared with Worthy, Cooper does not occupy too much power, and Zhou Chen has invisibly got more shots.

After three games, Zhou Chen's average number of shots per game increased by 5.2 times compared to the regular season, and his average points per game also rose to 38.6 points, accounting for almost 25%-30% of the team's scoring ratio!

After the first round of the Lakers' playoffs, NBA officials have also announced the major awards of the season.

Zhou Chen beat Jordan and Olajuwon and was unanimously elected Rookie of the Season!

33.5 points, 5.8 assists, 5.1 rebounds, 3.5 steals and 1.5 blocks, perfect at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends!

Even entered the discussion scope of the regular season MVP, and Zhou Chen had no reason not to be voted the best rookie!

Jordan's 32.8 points, 5.6 assists, 4.6 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game are impressive enough to be voted in any other season's Rookie of the Year selection!

But, after all, his competitor is Zhou Chen!

And most importantly, Jordan's Bulls record is too far behind the Lakers!

Jordan's loss to Zhou Chen is also reasonable.

Similarly, "Big Dream" Olajuwon, who is a top pick, led the Rockets to a second-place record in the West, although he averaged 20.6 points, 11.9 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game.

That's enough to make him a top-five interior player in the league!

But Zhou Chen and Jordan's performance is too explosive! Olajuwon can only regret missing out on the best rookie!

In the first round of the playoffs, other teams also produced results one after another.

The Portland Trail Blazers led by "Glider" Drexler narrowly defeated the Dallas Mavericks 3-2 after five games to advance to the Western Conference semifinals.

They will be the Lakers' opponents in the next round.

In the other half, the Rockets, No. 2 in the West, cleanly swept the young Utah Jazz 3-0.

At this time, Stockton has not yet waited for his golden partner "Postman" Malone, but the Jazz showed great potential in this round of the game is enough to make the rest of the league fearful.

The No. 3 Denver Nuggets defeated the Kings 3-1 to meet the Rockets in the semifinals.

In the East, defending champion Celtic swept the Cavaliers cleanly 3-0 to meet the Pistons, who defeated the Hawks, in the semifinals.

The Pistons welcomed the comeback of interior villain Lang Beale, and the Celtics will welcome their "bitter master" in the semifinals.

The 76ers, led by Julius Irving and Moses Malone, defeated the Washington Bullets 3-1 to advance to the semifinals.

The final group of the first round is the final battle between the Bulls and the Bucks led by Michael Jordan

, and after 4 battles, the Bulls and the Bucks ushered in the "Grab 5" battle.

Two days before the semifinals began, Zhou Chen also came to Milwaukee's home stadium to cheer for Jordan.

As a top three team in the Eastern Conference this season, the Bucks did not have particularly outstanding star players, but under the leadership of coach Nelson Sr., they played iron-blooded defense.

Young Jordan and the Bulls paid for it.

Jordan scored 30 points in the first half to lead the Bulls to a double-digit lead at one point.

But after the start of the second half, the Bucks began to target Jordan, just as the Pistons did against Zhou Chen's defense, and did not hesitate to use two or three pockets to prevent Jordan from scoring.

It is a pity that Jordan does not have teammates like Zhou Chen in the Lakers at this time.

When Jordan was targeted by multiple bags, the other young players of the Bulls did not step up to share the pressure for Jordan.

The Bucks made a big comeback in the second half and ended up holding their home court, narrowly beating the Bulls 85-80 to advance to the semifinals!

Jordan hit a quasi-triple-double of 41 points, 10 assists and 9 rebounds in the whole game, although he was defeated!

On his first playoff trip of his career, Jordan and his Bulls fell in the first round.

After the game, Zhou Chen invited Jordan to dinner together, and Jordan also expressed his heartfelt congratulations to Zhou Chen on winning the best rookie and the next round.

On the occasion of parting, Zhou Chen's words made Jordan feel deeply.

'The difficulties are only temporary, believe me, in the near future you will meet the right person, the player who helped you get to the top.

"Michael, look forward to the day we meet in the finals."

"I'm sure that day won't be long."

The two entered the league together, but Zhou Chen has been holding Jordan steady so far, and even his luck is better than Jordan.

The Lakers teammates around him are themselves champions, and Zhou Chen's addition is just the icing on the cake for the team.

In contrast, Jordan's growth path is obviously more difficult, which is more in line with the growth path of the male protagonist in the hot-blooded novel.

Zhou Chen sometimes feels faintly uneasy, will his career always go so smoothly?

He's clearly growing faster than anyone expected, and would Lakers management be willing to see that happen if the Magic Johnson and Abdul-Jabbar take the mantle?

Western Conference semifinals, before the start of the Lakers vs. Trail Blazers game.

The last two blockbuster prizes of the regular season are also unveiled!

Pat Riley led the Lakers to a luxurious 70-12 record this season, beating the Celtics' KC Jones and the Bucks' Nelson Sr. to win the first best coaching trophy of his coaching career!

And after the MVP selection results came out, it also shocked the entire NBA league again!

Zhou Chen finally beat Magic Johnson and Larry Bird to win this season's regular season MVP trophy!

Judging from the official voting results announced by the NBA, this is also the most intense MVP vote in history!

There is little difference in votes between the three! Zhou Chen ended up with only 1 more vote than the magician and 2 more votes than Larry Bird!

Zhou Chen became the third player in NBA history to win the regular season MVP as a rookie after Wilt Chamberlain and Unterside!

In his rookie season, Chamberlain averaged 37.6 points and 27 rebounds per game, while taking the scoring title, rebounding king and MVP that season.

As a defensive interior lineman, Unterside led the team to win 21 more games than last season in his rookie season, averaging 13.8 points and 18.2 rebounds per game, and won the rebounding king and regular season MVP.

Both of them are inside players, Zhou Chen is the first player to win the rookie MVP as a defender

, in addition, Zhou Chen has achieved a greater achievement than Chamberlain.

He became the first player in history to win the All-Rookie Team, Scoring Champion, Regular Season MVP, and Trinity (All-Rookie Team, All-NBA First Team, All-Defensive First Team) in his rookie season!