After finishing the regular season, the entire Lakers team took a day off. Tomorrow, the 23rd, there’ll be training in the morning and the team’s celebration activities in the afternoon, inviting some "lucky fans" to visit the team for photos and a raffle.

Last night, Zhang Hao got a good night’s sleep, truly slept.

When he woke up, he realized he overslept by 5 minutes past his usual waking time, feeling quite annoyed, like he’d wasted 8 years.

Should’ve switched to study mode and slept in the dream!

However, looking at the 1293 days of lifetime left, feels awesome!

After the game with the Blazers ended last night, Zhang Hao received his regular season life settlement.

Not making the playoffs only gives a reward of 60 lifespan days, but if they make it and aren’t eighth seed, they get additional life rewards based on the difference in record with the eighth seed.

For every win ahead of the eighth seed, there’s an extra reward of 5 days of life.

Their Lakers team, with 65 wins, is 25 wins ahead of the Western eighth-seed Kings with 39 wins, increasing quite a lot by 125 days of life! So, just last night, 190 days.

But reaching 60 wins, such a thing is hard to come by. The future Universe Warriors were so strong, playing together for 3 years, only reached 60+ wins once.

After getting up, since he didn’t plan to go to the gym for training today, Zhang Hao ran two laps around the villa area for half an hour, treating it as a morning workout.

Then he started reviewing and analyzing the gains from the regular season gone by, summarizing, analyzing, concluding...

"Special contracted player: Zhang Hao.

Age/Date of Birth: 19 years old/January 7, 1977.

Height: 208 cm, Wingspan: 220 cm

Weight: 99 kg.

Position: Forward

Team: Los Angeles Lakers.

Capability Rating: 75

Physical Attributes: Speed 90, Strength 90 (Explosive power 86), Jumping 94, Flexibility 95, Stamina 92...

Shooting: Three-point 67 (Top arc region three-point 82, other positions 64), Mid-range shot 92, Layup 90...

Technique: Dribbling 68, Passing 71, Catch and shoot 91, Catch and turnaround fadeaway 72, Back down turnaround fadeaway 69..."

After working hard for so long, looking at the improvements in all areas, it turned out to be yesterday afternoon’s breakthrough in mid-range shot rating at 92 during extra training due to the planned rest in the evening, breaking through the bottleneck of the 74 capability rating, reaching 75, which is the threshold for most team’s starting player selection... But although it’s a 75 capability rating, his character and performance brought out far exceed the role of the players who show 75 capability rating behavior on the court.

...

All morning, Zhang Hao was thinking about how to play in the upcoming playoffs... The final conclusion was to play it by ear.

Never played in the playoffs before, who knows how it’ll turn out?

Just give it all you’ve got, the first time doing such a thing is always full of anticipation.

After all, experience brings familiarity, and he no longer feels as anxious about his performance as at the beginning of the regular season.

By noon, the monthly award results were announced.

Regarding the monthly best player, Zhang Hao didn’t have much expectation. After winning the monthly best in December last year, even though he played well in January, he didn’t win it again; Pippen took it. His April performance was quite average; just the season’s average performance... Actually, the April performance showed progress compared to before, but it was not enough to win another monthly best in this fiercely competitive season.

Too many stars performed outstandingly in April!

In their comeback month of April with an average of 23.2 points and 10.8 assists, helping the Heat enter the playoffs, Tim Hardaway, although not making the playoffs but leading the team to an 8-3 record with an average of 29 points, 11 rebounds, and 5.9 assists, Juwan Howard, in April playing 10 games with an average of 18.8 points, 10.2 rebounds and 7.5 assists helping the Blazers secure the sixth in the West, with O’Neal absent the whole month yet leading the team alone to a 7-3 record averaging 27.2 points and 8.8 assists, Anfernee Hardaway... as well as Michael Jordan. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Of course, Mr. Zhang Hao was also one of the candidates for the monthly best player, just with lower odds.

At noon, Zhang Hao watched the cliff and the NBA having some PY with the American Cable TV Station’s midday news, regular season data king has always been seen by fans as one of the most important data indicators. Since David Stern took over the NBA in 1984, even the previously unrecognized data kings got recognition, with trophies for the five data kings, and even those with previously clear evidence of being data kings got supplemented with trophies.

Just like a big platter...

This year’s scoring king, averaging 31 points, Jordan, without suspense, second is Zhang Hao averaging 27.1 points, a big gap, third is Olajuwon surpassing at the last minute averaging 27 points.

Regarding the rebounding king, Rodman with an average of 14.9 rebounds outperformed David Robinson’s average of 12.2 rebounds.

Their Lakers team also has a player in the top ten of the rebounding list—Jason Williams, averaging 10.8 rebounds playing 24 minutes per game.

On the assist king side, Stockton wins overwhelmingly with 11.2 assists, and by the latter part of the season, only Stockton averaged more than 10 assists per game.

In this regard, the American Cable TV Station host felt sorry for the Heat’s Tim Hardaway, who after the All-Star Weekend in games averaged 17.2 points and 10.5 assists, a pity delayed by the Warriors for most of the season, or else someone with two seasons of averaging 20+10 before could have competed with Stockton for the assist king.

Regarding the steal king, Gary Payton with 2.9 steals is deservedly so.

As for the block king, again Mutombo, averaging 4.5 blocks, winning the block king for three consecutive times, becoming the first player since block statistics exist to accomplish a three-peat of block king.