Who deserves to be the king when two Zhanshu drink wine in the 18th season?

Now looking back at the not-far-distant 2017-18 season, it is like a watershed, opening up a new NBA pattern.

Looking back now, the Golden State Warriors won the championship again that year was the latest in the NBA to achieve a successive feat.

Since then, the league has seen a pace of winning the championship with different teams a year.

And that season, the most difficult draw for fans was the Houston Rockets!

After all, that year, the Rockets were just a short distance from the championship, and they were only one victory away from the finals stage.

If the Rockets did not make a bleak three-pointer missed in home court in the tiebreak that year, perhaps the theme of the finals that year was undoubtedly "the battle between two James" -

There is a Zhan in the east and a Zhan in the west. The two Zhans are facing each other, and they are a hero, and they are creating a hegemony and want to divide the world.

If Harden had to make a choice between the regular season MVP and the championship that year, he would probably rather give up the MVP trophy he had longed for.

After all, the glittering but heavy champion O'Brien's Cup is more worthy of his involvement. In the 18th season, Harden finally achieved outstanding results and outstanding personal gorgeous performances, and finally won the only regular season MVP trophy in his personal career with an absolute advantage -

In that season, Harden led the Rockets to 65 wins and 17 losses to the first record in the league, and was outstanding.

, and he played 72 games for the Rockets, averaging 30.4 points, 5.4 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game, surpassing the heroes to be awarded the regular season MVP that year.

In fact, that year, Dong Zhan also played the most representative season of his career.

The reason why James passed by the regular season MVP back then was that his record was slightly dragged down -

Now, the 2017-18 season was like the curtain call season for James to play for the Cavaliers, with a stunning start and an unexpected ending.

In that season, James played 82 games in the regular season, averaging 36.9 minutes per game, scoring 27.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 9.1 assists per game, of which the shooting percentage was 54.2%, and his performance was impeccable.

In the end, the Cavaliers scored 50 wins and 32 losses in the regular season, and entered the playoffs as fifth in the Eastern Conference.

It is worth mentioning that that year was also the fourth consecutive year James led the Cavaliers to the finals, and the Cavaliers Battle was the fourth confrontation.

Even if that season is a very distant past, would it really be difficult to settle for James that year?

Should the regular season MVP be given to James, not Harden in the West? Comparing the data of the two, James is better than Harden in the 2017-18 regular season score, rebounds, assists and shooting percentage, and is more efficient on the court.

and James attended 82 games, making him a full attendance in his only season of his career, which is of great significance.

In contrast, Harden played in 72 games due to factors such as rest. Although his attendance rate is good, he is still slightly inferior to James.

Even though the Rockets ranked first in the league with a record of 65 wins and 17 losses that year, ending the Warriors' monopoly on the league's top four years ago, the defeat eventually made all this pale and powerless.