February's Winning Streak Begins Again! Twelve Straight Wins in a Single Month!

"We won! The Lakers won again!"

"Ever since they lost to the Timberwolves at the end of January, the Lakers haven't lost another game!"

"Every game has been a rout! Every game has been a blowout slaughter!"

"Bulls, Portland Trail Blazers, SuperSonics, Rockets, Suns! Five playoff-caliber teams, and the Lakers beat them all!"

"Other than the Bulls, every other team practically collapsed at the first touch against these Lakers!"

"Kobe put up three straight 40-plus games on The Glove Payton!"

"Olajuwon looked utterly helpless against O'Neal, who had now become the dominant force! O'Neal went wild for 33 points and 25 rebounds!"

"The loaded Suns, the run-and-gun Suns with the fifth-highest scoring average in the league this season, looked as if they had forgotten how to score in front of the Lakers! Kobe alone locked down the entire Suns backcourt!"

"Winning streaks! Blowouts! This February belonged to the Lakers! The Lakers had found their form! They looked like they were about to make another push for 70 wins!"

"Maybe they weren't chasing 70 wins, but the most wins in history—the Bulls' 72-win record from two years ago!"

"There was hope! The Lakers were currently 46-4! They had a real chance to post the best record in history!"

A mad February!

More than half of February had passed, and the Lakers had not lost a single game!

Undefeated!

Aside from the Bulls taking them down to the wire, every other game had been a huge win!

The Lakers' chemistry and the players' form had completely caught fire!

After reaching 34 wins, their weary spirits had finally recovered to an excellent state following January's adjustments.

And when every player on these Lakers was in form, they were invincible!

The Lakers became the hottest team in the league!

Even the Bulls' shine was