Lakers History湖人简史之三 1949-51: Lakers Win First NBA Finals 1949-51：湖人赢得第一座美国职业篮球联赛总冠军 来源：http://0rz.tw/3f4b4 The BAA and the NBL merged after that season, and the NBA was born for the 1949-50 campaign. In its first year the NBA consisted of 17 teams competing in three divisions. Minneapolis was assigned to the Central Division (the new circuit's strongest division), where the team once again went head-to-head with Rochester. BAA以及NBL两个联盟在1949-50球季前合并成为美国职业篮球联赛NBA。NBA在第一年总共有 17支球队分成三组。明尼阿波里斯被分在中央组（新联盟最强的一组），与罗彻斯特分在 同一组。 If anything, the Lakers were even better than they had been the season before. The team included a trio of promising first-year players in forward Vern Mikkelsen and guards Slater Martin and Bud Grant. (Grant went on to greater fame as coach of the football Minnesota Vikings.) 如果有什麽区别的话，那就是湖人比前几季又更强大了。队上新来了三位潜力新星，包括 前锋Vern Mikkersen以及後卫Slater Martin与Bud Grant。 （不过Grant最有名还是以教练身份执教明尼苏达维京美式足球队） Minneapolis seemed to have a lock on the top spot in the Central Division, but Rochester put together a 15-game winning streak as the campaign wound down, and the teams ended the regular season tied for first with identical 51-17 records. The Lakers then edged the Royals by a single basket in a one-game playoff to claim the division title. 明尼阿波里斯似乎已经锁定了分组的龙头地位，但是罗彻斯特一开季就15连胜，并且在例 行赛结束时以51胜17败并列第一。之後湖人在季後赛分组冠军系列中以一球之差惨遭皇家 淘汰。 For the second season in a row Minneapolis waltzed through the preliminary rounds of the postseason. The powerful Lakers felled the Chicago Stags in the Central Division Semifinals, swept the Fort Wayne Pistons in two games in the division finals, and then dusted the Anderson Duffey Packers in two games in the NBA Semifinals. 第二季明尼阿波里斯如同跳华尔兹一般轻松滑过季後赛第一轮。强大的湖人在分组准决赛 击退Chicago Stags，分组冠军赛横扫了Fort Wayne Pistons，然後在NBA准决赛中羞辱了 Anderson Duffey Packers。 The first NBA Finals pitted the Lakers against the Syracuse Nationals. The Nats had the home-court advantage, but the Lakers took Game 1 in Syracuse when reserve guard Bob Harrison heaved in a 40-foot shot at the buzzer to give Minneapolis a two-point victory. The Nationals evened the series the next night. When the Finals reconvened in Minnesota five days later, Minneapolis pounded out a 91-77 win, then followed that with a victory in Game 4. Syracuse postponed the inevitable by shutting down Mikan in Game 5, but the Lakers came back with a 110-95 victory in Game 6 to earn the first NBA Championship. Mikan, who had led the league in scoring during the regular season with 27.4 points per game (only one other player topped 20.0 ppg), poured in 31.3 points per contest in the playoffs. 湖人第一次进入NBA总决赛对上的是Syracuse Nationals。Nationals拥有主场优势，但是 湖人替补後卫Bob Harrison在比赛终了前的一记40尺压哨出手让湖人以两分之差在 Syracuse拿下第一场。不过Nationals隔天晚上就让系列打平。当总决赛四天後在明尼苏达 再度开打时，明尼阿波里斯以91-77获胜，然後第四战又再度赢球。Syracuse第五战封锁了 Mikan让系列再度延长，但是湖人第六战就以110-95拿下胜利并赢得第一座NBA冠军。Mikan 再次在例行赛以平均27.4分领先全联盟（而且只有一位球员平均得分超过20分），在季後 赛更平均每场攻下31.3分。 A slimmed-down NBA fielded 11 teams in the 1950-51 campaign and went back to a two-division format, with the Lakers returning to the Western Division. With the best players from the six disbanded clubs distributed throughout the remaining teams, the offseason attrition helped to raise the level of competition in the two-year-old league. 在1950-51球季NBA联盟只剩下11队，并且缩编为两组，湖人回到西组。六支解散球队中最 好的球员流向了剩下的这几支球队，休赛期间的缩编反而提高了两岁大的联盟的水准。 The Lakers were favored to repeat as NBA champs that season. In addition to Mikan, the team boasted a solid frontcourt in Jim Pollard and Vern Mikkelsen and a better-than-average backcourt in Bob Harrison and Slater Martin. Minneapolis took the Western Division by three games and posted the league's best record at 44-24. But the playoffs didn't go according to plan. Minneapolis lost a game to the Indianapolis Olympians in the division semifinals, marking the Lakers' first-ever loss in a preliminary playoff round. They nevertheless won the series, two games to one, and advanced to face old rival Rochester in the Western Division Finals. The Lakers won Game 1, but the Royals came back with three straight victories to take the best-of-five series. 湖人希望能再次获得总冠军。除了Mikan以外，球队还以Jim Pollard以及Vern Mikkelsen 组成坚实的前场，还有Bob Harrison与Slater Martin搭配的高於水准的後场。明尼阿波里 斯以三场之差坐上分组龙头，并有着联盟最佳44胜24败的战绩，但是季後赛并不如预期。 在分组半决赛系列中输了一场给Indianapolis Olympians，是湖人成立以来第一次在季後 赛第一轮输球，不过他们还是以2-1晋级了，而且在分组决赛中再次碰上老对手罗彻斯特。 湖人赢下第一场，但是皇家接着在这个五战三胜制系列连拿三场淘汰了湖人。 待续... --

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