In 1980, the Lakers eliminated 76ers to win the championship, and the Magician scored 42+15 to win the FMVP! How did Jabbar perform

Every era in the NBA has its own league appearance. For example, James, Curry and Durant are the league's positions over the past few years. Looking further, they are Kobe, Duncan and O'Neal. It has to be said that the NBA in the 2000s was indeed full of flowers! Dating back to the last century, the best players in the 1990s included Jordan, Olajuwon and others. Then the two most uncontroversial super giants in the 1980s were undoubtedly Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. These two fight from college to the NBA, and their games can greatly increase their ratings.

Speaking of Magic Johnson, although he has only played in the NBA for 12 seasons, this does not affect that he is still the greatest point guard in NBA history. Even though he has retired for 29 years, no player can surpass him. Perhaps many young fans will say that Curry is a better player than the Magic, but in fact, looking at the achievements of these two people in the NBA, it is obvious that the Magic is still the more dominant side.

In the 12 seasons of his career, Magic Johnson has successfully been selected for the All-Star every season, and he has also been selected for the All-Series 10 times (9 of which were selected for the All-Series). In addition, in the Magician's career, the Magician has won 4 assists, 2 steals, and 3 MVPs. The most important thing is that under his leadership, the Lakers dominated the NBA in the 1980s. They reached 8 Finals in those 10 years, and 5 of them laughed to the end. With their outstanding personal performance in the finals, the Magician was also elected as FMVP three times.

And I think the Magic won his first FMVP in his rookie season, so he became the youngest player in NBA history to win this award, and this record has not been broken until now. Then let’s review the 1980 Finals. In addition, when introducing the Magician’s performance, we can also see what performance Jabbar, the real Lakers leader, played at that time.

First of all, let's look at the regular season. After the rookie Magic entered the league, he quickly got into the state. Therefore, he averaged 18 points, 7.7 rebounds, 7.3 assists and 2.4 steals per game in the regular season. Unfortunately, he lost to Bird, who averaged 21.3 points, 10.4 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. With the help of the Magician, the Lakers won 60 wins in the regular season. However, if you want to say that the player who performed best at that time had to be Jabbar. He averaged 24.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 1 steal, 3.4 blocks per game in the regular season, and he also successfully won his sixth MVP in his career.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers played against the Suns. In this round of the series, the latter was obviously not the Lakers' opponent, so they finally easily eliminated the Suns 3-1. In these 4 games, the Magic can average 15.4 points, 10.8 rebounds and 11 assists per game, and he can average 3.4 steals per game on the defensive end. However, the real MVP of this round of the series is still Jabbar. He averaged 31.8 points, 11 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 1.2 steals and 2.8 blocks per game. It can be seen that he has taken the game more seriously in the playoffs.

Then against the Seattle Supersonics, the Lakers still lost only 1 game in the entire series, and finally advanced easily with a big score of 4-1. As the leader, Jabbar continued his hot state. He averaged 30.6 points, 11.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.6 steals and 4.2 blocks per game, while the Magic averaged 17.4 points, 9.4 rebounds, 8.8 assists and 3.2 steals per game. Obviously, both of them performed very well.

Finally arrived in the finals, the Lakers' opponent was the Philadelphia 76ers who had a record of 59 wins and 23 losses in the regular season. They were also unstoppable in the East this year. Facing the Hawks and Celtics, they only lost 2 games in total. Therefore, after the finals started, both sides once played back and forth, and after the first four games, both sides were in a deadlock, and the big score was tied 2-2.

In the first four games, Jabbar still played as the strongest star on the court, and in G1 and G3 won by the Lakers, he scored 33+14+5+6 and 33+14+3+4 respectively. The Magician's performance in these two games is quite similar to the previous playoffs. G1 scored 16 points, 9 rebounds, 10 assists, and 3 steals, while G3 contributed 16 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists.

When it comes to the battle of Tianwang Mountain, considering whoever wins will be the first to get the series match point, the importance of this game is self-evident. Fortunately, the Lakers' Gemini did not disappoint the team. Both Jabbar and Magic Johnson performed better than the first four games. First of all, Jabbar, who played in 41 minutes, made 16 of 24 shots and scored 40 points, 15 rebounds and 4 blocks. This was also the only game he scored 40+15 in the playoffs that year. Then there is the Magician. He played in 45 minutes in this game, scoring 28 points, 9 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 steals and 1 block. 28 points in a single game also set his single-game score record in the playoffs at that time.

With the joint force of Jabbar and the Magic, the Lakers narrowly defeated the 76ers in G5 with a score of 108-103, but they had the first to win the match point before they had time to celebrate, that is, Jabbar will miss the G6 behind due to injury. Before that, in this round of series, Jabbar averaged 33.4 points, 13.6 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 4.6 blocks per game. Therefore, his absence caused everyone in the outside world to be unfavorable that the Lakers can successfully accept the series next, especially considering that G6 is still at home in the 76ers, their hope of victory is weaker..

However, Magic Johnson did not choose to give up this game, so when G6 started, he temporarily changed to the starting center. The first half of this game was very anxious. The score between the two sides was 60-60 after the half. However, in the second half, the situation on the field suddenly turned around. Under the leadership of the Magician, the Lakers successively reached offensive climaxes. In the end, the score in the third quarter was 33-23. The Lakers still did not give the 76ers any chance to breathe, and the score of 30-24 in a single quarter completely shattered the 76ers' dream of winning the championship.

Finally, in this game, Magic Johnson, who was ordered to change to the center, scored 42 points, 15 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals and 1 block in the whole game. With his explosion, the Lakers made an amazing offensive, and with this game, he also successfully won the attention of the media and finally won the FMVP. It is also worth mentioning that the Lakers can win this game. Jamal Wilkes, who scored the second highest 37 points in the game, also made an indelible contribution!