Chapter 1130 Regular Season Ends

On the 30th, the Suns faced the Celtics and defeated them, completing a 33-game winning streak.

Although the record of 33 consecutive wins has not been broken, the media has already hyped it up, because the Suns' next opponent is the rebuilding bottom-feeder Cavaliers, and they can't lose even if they want to.

The regular season entered January 2010. On the 1st, the league announced the best players of the month for December 2009. Li Ba won the Western Conference Best Player of the Month again, and the Eastern Conference Best Player of the Month was won by LeBron James.

Li Ba also continued to be the first official MVP, with LeBron James second and Kobe third.

On the 2nd, the Suns won the Cavaliers without any surprise, achieving a 34-game winning streak, breaking the Lakers' longest winning streak record outside of 38 years.

But the Suns' winning streak has not stopped and is still continuing.

The long winning streak made the Suns feel excited, and this excitement lasted for a long time, which produced a feeling of mental fatigue.

Physically, he is actually fine. The Suns have been paying attention to rotation. Even Li Ba's playing time has been controlled to 30 minutes, which is much less than last season.

On the 14th, the Lunar New Year.

On January 15th, the Suns played against the Heat at home. This was the Suns' 39th regular season game.

The Suns had achieved 38 consecutive wins before, shocking the entire league, and this game was hyped by the media as a preview of the finals.

After losing to the Suns at home at the beginning, the Heat's Big Three quickly reached a unified idea. Under the research of the coaching staff, they redivided the ball rights and playing style.

James controlled the ball, Wade ran without the ball, and Bosh pulled to the far line to create breakthrough space for James and Wade.

Among the three, only Bosh changed his playing style and gave up the low-post attack.

But this style of play allowed the Heat to begin to burst out with huge energy.

But unfortunately, the Suns were in poor condition in this game and lost the game against the powerful Heat.

Although the Suns stopped their winning streak, they still ranked first in the league.

On the 16th, the league announced the start of the All-Star voting.

On the 21st, after two consecutive wins, the Suns lost to the Mavericks again.

At this time, the schedule was already halfway through, and then the coaching staff decided to take turns to rest the main players and the main substitutes.

After a long period of repeated negotiations, the negotiations with Adidas came to an end, and the agreement was basically reached.

That day Gao Yuanyuan returned to Phoenix.

She has been very busy during this period, one is the negotiation of a lifetime contract, the other is the preparation of Liba's chain restaurant, and then there is the listing of Senbei Company, running between China and the United States.

"Senbei's listing is almost done, but the debt ratio is a little low..." Gao Yuanyuan said.

The girl said in surprise: "Sister Yuanyuan, is there a problem with low debt?"

"Yes, you are not short of money, why go public? Listing is to raise funds for companies that are short of money, so low debt is not good." Gao Yuanyuan smiled.

"Then what should I do? You can't deliberately lose money..." The girl asked.

Gao Yuanyuan waved her hand and said, "It's easy. Didn't you prepare more than 200 million US dollars for capital expansion and share increase? Just borrow it in the name of the company."

"You can borrow from your left hand to your right hand?" The girl was a little confused.

"It's just a capital operation." Gao Yuanyuan said with a smile.

After talking about the chain store, Gao Yuanyuan said, "Tubei, the contract is almost done and can be signed. 2.85 billion US dollars, all sports brand sponsorship endorsements, whether it is boxing or tennis, all previous contracts are cancelled and incorporated into this contract, and then add the brand's sales share, what do you think?"

Li Ba thought for a while and said, "No need to consider it, then sign it."

"Then I will notify Adidas." Gao Yuanyuan said.

On the 23rd, when the Suns visited the Knicks, Li Ba and Adidas signed a lifetime contract in New York.

Adidas held the most grand signing ceremony, but did not disclose the contract amount.

After many sources of information, the media only knew that the amount of this contract exceeded 2 billion US dollars, which is the largest sponsorship contract in the sports industry so far.

This amount alone completely shocked the entire sports industry.

That night, the Suns beat the Knicks.

Li Ba played for 42 minutes as a power forward. To celebrate the super contract he had just received, he recorded his 8th quintuple-double, which was also the 7th quintuple-double in the league.

It was February 10th, the All-Star Weekend.

The Suns' record declined slightly under the rotation, but up to that day, they still had a record of 50 wins and 4 losses, ranking first in the league.

After the All-Stars, the schedule continued.

On April 14, 2010, the regular season ended.

The Suns had 74 wins and 8 losses, breaking the Bulls' highest regular season winning rate.

In the 95-96 season, the Bulls had 72 wins and 10 losses, with a winning rate of 87.8%, which has been maintained for 13 seasons.

Li Ba played 82 games in the regular season without missing, averaging 30.6 minutes per game, averaging 31.5 points, 15.5 rebounds, 6.4 assists, 7.4 steals, 8.2 blocks, 1.6 turnovers, and 1.9 fouls.

The data is down compared to last season, but the efficiency is higher when the playing time is taken into account.

This season, he is mostly directly facing the opponent's team's key players, directly strangling the opponent's core players, which is also the reason for the team's high record this season.

With this data, he won the personal honors of scoring champion, rebounding champion, steals champion, blocked shot champion, and DPOY.

He has always been ranked first in the regular season MVP prediction. If there are no unexpected circumstances, he will win his fourth MVP trophy.

Yao Ming played for the Suns for one season, averaging 20.5 minutes per game. He took a rest from time to time after the All-Star Game. He played a total of 72 games, scoring 17 points, 4.5 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 0.5 steals, 1.8 blocks, 0.8 turnovers and 1.3 fouls.

The media's evaluation of Yao Ming in the regular season is still a superstar-level performance.

Yi Jianlian played for 28 minutes and scored 15 points, 4.5 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 1.2 steals and 2.8 blocks. He also performed well, very efficiently, and truly had both offense and defense.

After the regular season, the Eastern and Western playoff rankings were also released.

Western: Suns, Mavericks, Nuggets, Lakers, Grizzlies, Jazz, Trail Blazers, Thunder.

Eastern: Heat, Celtics, Bucks, Magic, Hawks, Hornets, Bulls, Pacers.

The Nuggets ranked 6th in the Western Conference in the regular season this season. Since the division champion automatically ranks in the top three in the playoffs, the Nuggets are the champions of the Northwest Division, and the team benefited again and ranked third in the playoffs.

The Lakers were second in the Western Conference regular season, but were suppressed by the Suns and could only rank fourth in the Western Conference in the playoffs.

The Mavericks and the Grizzlies are in the same division, and the Grizzlies' record is not as good as the Lakers. They can only rank fifth in the playoffs and will play against the Lakers in the first round, which is very unlucky.

The Suns will play against the Thunder in the first round and the winner of the Lakers and the Grizzlies in the second round.

The same is true in the East. The Bucks ranked 6th in the regular season, but the Southeast Division of the East is very strong, with the Heat, Magic, and Hawks. As the champion of the Eastern Conference Central Division, the Bucks also ranked third in the playoffs.

The first round of the playoffs will start on April 17, and the Suns' first round will be on the 18th.