The Golden Age of Basketball

() On October 1981, 10, the preseason game of the nba Pacific region officially kicked off.In Oakland, not far from San Francisco, the Golden State Warriors will host the San Diego Clippers (formerly the Los Angeles Clippers).

Gan Guoyang, Gan Guohui, and Chen Xing took a bus, passed the Eisenhower Bridge, and went to the Oakland Stadium (later Oracle Arena), the home of the Golden State Warriors, to watch the game.

Because it's just a nonchalant preseason game, a lot of tickets will come with it.It was Thurmond who got their tickets.But for Gan Guoyang, this is still the first time he came to the scene to watch an NBA game—although it was in the 80s.

Gan Guoyang once thought that he must come to the United States to watch an NBA game live in the future.But he didn't expect that he didn't come later, but came "before".

He seemed very excited on the bus, and kept asking Gan Guohui and Chen Xing about the nba.Although later generations have watched football for many years, he doesn't know much about the history of the NBA. For example, he doesn't even know Nate Thurmond.

"What team do you both like? Are the Golden State Warriors strong?"

"We are all fans of the Lakers! Although there are three teams in California, the Lakers fans account for the majority, and the Golden State Warriors have a lot of fans, but their strength is too bad recently, and the rest should be diehards. Not to mention the Clippers, it’s only been ten years since the team was established, and it’s only been three or four years since they moved to California, and the results are still so poor, how can there be any fans.”

Gan Guohui actually said everything Gan Guoyang asked and didn't ask.

"Who is a Lakers fan like you! I am a Celtics fan now! I started last year, and I decided to be a loyal Celtics fan!" Chen Xing heard Gan Guohui say, "We are all ", immediately rose up to refute.

"Keep your voice down! I guess half of the people in this car are Lakers fans. You say you are a Celtics fan. Do you still want to go to Oakland to watch the game alive?" Lost to the Celtics, the two teams have always been sworn enemies, and the fans are no exception.

"What are you afraid of! I speak Chinese, and no one can understand it." Chen Xing looked indifferent, and Gan Guohui forgot that they spoke Chinese.

"You don't come here, when did you become a Celtics fan? Isn't it because the Celtics won the championship this summer that you made a fool of yourself and favored the Celtics? It's really far away, from the west coast to the east coast."

"Didn't you become a Lakers fan because the Lakers won the championship last year? You still have the nerve to call me, and I don't know who took you to Los Angeles to watch the game. People who don't even know Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have the nerve to say that they are Lakers fans. ..."

There is basically no time for two people to live together peacefully. If you seize a little chance, you will start to quarrel. If you don't quarrel, you will feel uncomfortable.

From the quarrel between the two of them, Gan Guoyang knew that the championships in 80 and 81 were the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics respectively. The meeting of these "double" rivals in 2008 can be said to have earned enough gimmicks and eyeballs.

However, amidst the bickering between the two, the three of them soon arrived at the Oakland Stadium.

After checking the tickets and entering the arena, Gan Guoyang looked at the huge building and still couldn't calm down for a long time.Although it was 1981 at this time, the entire arena used concrete, steel and wood structures, which were much old-fashioned compared with the glass and steel structures of later generations.

However, such a large arena has not appeared even in China in the 21st century, while in the United States, the 60snba professional league has a large stadium that can accommodate tens of thousands of people.This has to make Gan Guoyang feel the development of this country.

Because tonight is only a preseason game, and the opponents are the weak Golden State Warriors and San Diego Clippers, so there are not many fans present.

A sparse crowd, mostly young people, some in Warriors uniforms, sauntered up the stairs.At that time, the Warriors' team logo was a basketball and an outline of the state of California.

"Huh? The No.30 jerseys they wear?" Gan Guoyang found that most of the Warriors' jerseys were No.30, and Gan Guoyang remembered that No.30 was the jersey number of the Warriors' rookie Stephen Curry.I don't know who the No. 30 star of the Warriors is at this time.

After entering the arena, Gan Guoyang was deeply shocked again.The huge dome can accommodate more than 7000 seats, and the bright and even dazzling lighting. Although there is no large-scale screen in the NBA arena later, such a large indoor stadium still stunned Gan Guoyang.

"It's really different from watching it on TV," Gan Guoyang thought.I don't know how surprised he would be if he went to the NBA site to see it in the 21st century.

"Let's go, the seats are in the front! Cousin, you are really good, you can get the tickets in the front. It would be great if the tickets for the regular season, the front seats are very expensive." Gan Guohui and Chen Xing used to watch the game only You can buy the cheapest back seat tickets, and you need to use binoculars to see the specific performance of the players.

The tickets for the three of them this time were given to Thurmond by the Warriors. For this famous player in the history of the Warriors, they were naturally the best front-row tickets.

At this time, some players have already started warm-up exercises on the field.They are all wearing long sportswear and doing simple shooting drills.The Golden State Warriors are wearing yellow jerseys, while the Clippers are wearing blue jerseys.

"Look, that No. 21, Ward Fury, just transferred from the Clippers this year. He is a very good shooting guard." Gan Guohui pointed to a player wearing a No. 21 tracksuit, judging from his height Is a defender.

He is a player who just transferred from the Clippers to the Warriors this year, and he will face his old owner in the first preseason game.

"I don't know what he thinks in his heart?" Chen Xing sighed.

"How can you think about it? The NBA is just a business league. It's normal to switch back and forth." Gan Guohui has watched the game for nearly ten years. Don't see too many things about stars changing teams. Ward, who has never heard of this ? It's not surprising that Fury changed teams.

"Hey big cousin, you can watch it thoroughly. Can you watch NBA in China?" Gan Guohui asked.

"Uh...Of course you can't see it, but you also know that Mr. Nate Thurmond was also the number one star of the Warriors before, and then he also switched to other teams." After 1984, the NBA entered the Chinese In terms of vision, only the Washington Bullets visited China once in the 70s. Other than that, there is basically no intersection between the NBA and China.

"That's right. Oh, I saw Tom Chambers! He is the No. [-] pick this year, and I think he will be the best rookie of the year!" Gan Guohui looked at the Clippers' field on the other side, pointing Said to a tall white man.

"Okay, from your point of view, you still predict the best rookie. Have you watched the Chambers game? I bet, this year's best rookie belongs to the second pick Isiah Thomas!" Chen Xing and Gan Guohui It's noisy.

Gan Guoyang was not interested in hearing what they said about the NBA in 81. Although he was a person from the future, Gan Guoyang didn't know much about the NBA in this era.

It's just that he is still very familiar with the name "Isiah Thomas", "Smiling Assassin", the biggest contributor to the Pistons' two consecutive championships in the future, but that's all he knows.

"Hello, can you give me your ball to play with?"

Gan Guoyang, who was not in the mood to listen to the quarrel between the duo, heard a child's voice from the seat next to him.

He turned his head and saw a black child who was only three or four years old, standing on a chair watching him and talking to him, and lowering his head from time to time to stare at Gan Guoyang's basketball.

Gan Guoyang now takes his basketball with him wherever he goes.

"Of course, but are you okay?" Gan Guoyang looked at this kid who was only more than 3 feet old, and felt that the basketball was too big for him.

"No problem." The little boy took the ball Gan Guoyang handed him, jumped off the chair, and began to pat the ball on the ground.

To Gan Guoyang's surprise, the kid was able to shoot the ball well.Although a ball almost reached his knee because of his short stature, he still controlled the ball well.

"Wow, you are awesome." Gan Guoyang couldn't help but lament that American basketball really started from a baby.

"Are you a Warriors fan?" Gan Guoyang asked.

"No, I'm not a fan of anyone. I'm here to see my dad." The child continued to dribble while lowering his head.

"Look at your father?" Gan Guoyang felt a little strange, came here to see his father?

"Well, Dad's playing ball here. Mom's off to buy me ice cream."

In this way, Gan Guoyang understood. It seems that this child is a family member of a player. I don’t know which star he is the son of.But Gan Guoyang doesn't know any of the players here.

"Look, that player laying up there is my dad." The child raised his head and pointed to a player who was practicing a layup in the Clippers court.But he was wearing a coat, I don't know what size it was.

Gan Guoyang couldn't recognize who it was, so he asked, "What's your father's name?"

The child gave him a sideways look, obviously despised him for not knowing his own father, and why did he come to watch some ball games, and replied, "My father is Joe Bryan."

"Joe Bryant?" Gan Guoyang had never heard of this player. It seemed that he was an unknown guy in history. It was normal that he didn't know him.But the surname Brian felt familiar to him.

"Yes, my name is Kobe Bryant."

The child's next self-introduction really shocked Gan Guoyang!No wonder the surname Bryan felt familiar, it turned out to be Kobe Bryant!

He knew before that Kobe's father was also an NBA player, but he was a minor player, so he didn't pay attention.Unexpectedly, this little guy sitting next to him and playing his own basketball will be the super guard who will dominate the basketball world in the future, Kobe Bryant.

"Hey, what's the matter with you, big cousin?" Gan Guohui, who had finished arguing with Chen Xing, looked at Gan Guoyang who was a little dazed, and asked.

"No, nothing, why hasn't the game started yet?"

"It's almost time, isn't the warm-up over? Let's start with a player introduction right away."

Because it was only a preseason game, and there were not so many gimmicks in the 80snba, so after the warm-up, the DJ on the sidelines made an introduction for all the players, and the game was about to start.There was no flashing of lights like a star's concert later.

But Gan Guoyang didn't have much interest in watching the game at this time, and his attention was on the little Kobe next to him.

At this time, Kobe's mother had already returned, and Kobe returned the ball to Gan Guoyang, and began to watch the game seriously.

The preseason games were generally not exciting, because it had no effect on the results, and the players were afraid of getting injured, so they just came and went and played casually, and the audience just watched the excitement.

But Gan Guoyang was thinking about a very important thing in his heart: whether his appearance would affect the path Kobe chose in the future.

Gan Guoyang also knows the butterfly effect. A small flap of a butterfly's wings can cause a hurricane.And so far, the hurricane caused by his little butterfly flapping its wings has not been seen.It seems that there have been no major changes in the entire history, but Gan Guoyang knows that the time is too short to form a hurricane.

And seeing Kobe this time, will it change his basketball life?

Gan Guoyang knew that Kobe would go to Italy in the future, where he would encounter football. What would happen if he finally chose football because of this meeting with himself?Although he also felt that his words and actions had nothing to do with choosing football.

"Fortunately, I lent him the basketball to play, otherwise he would no longer like basketball in a fit of anger, then I would really change his life." Gan Guoyang thought happily.

"Wow! Bernard King is really amazing for scoring three goals in a row! I think this year he and Fury's striker-back combination will definitely shine!" Gan Guohui exclaimed from the side.

"Come on less, impromptu combination, defense is not enough. I am not optimistic about this year's Warriors." Chen Xing will definitely stand up and object immediately.

"Then let's wait and see! Wow! Bernard King scored again, it's so fucking awesome!" Gan Guohui praised again.

At this time, Gan Guoyang, who was thinking wildly in his mind, was also attracted by Gan Guohui's shout, and asked, "Who are you talking about? Which one is Bernard King?"

"It's the No. 30 scorer who just transferred from the Utah Jazz this year. His turnaround jumper is really amazing!"

Gan Guoyang searched the court for a while, and quickly found the number 30, wearing a Warriors vest and shorts.But no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this guy seemed very familiar.

"National character face!" Gan Guoyang remembered that Bernard King, number 30, was the Chinese character face who taught him to turn over and shoot a jump shot at the small court in Union Square last night!

This surprised Gan Guoyang again. He didn't expect that the one who taught him his jump shooting skills turned out to be the new star of the Warriors!

At this time, Bernard King once again took the ball with his back on the waist, pushed back a few times, made a quick left turn, shot, scored, and scored five goals in a row.This also made the originally boring game much more exciting, and the audience on the sidelines also started to applaud him.

Gan Guoyang, who was on the sidelines, found that wearing sportswear and sneakers with a Chinese face, he turned faster, jumped higher, and shot more steadily!And he was wearing flared pants and leather shoes last night.

"It seems that there is still a big gap between me and him." Gan Guoyang once again had an intuitive feeling about the level of the NBA.

Gan Guoyang was really surprised today. First, the NBA arena gave him a little shock; then, when he met the future superstar Kobe Bryant, he was worried that it would affect the basketball career of this superstar; Finally, I found out that the master I met last night turned out to be the star of the Warriors!

On the car back to San Francisco, Gan Guoyang looked at the sparkling sea under the starlight outside the car window, and couldn't help but sigh, "Life is full of ups and downs, it's so exciting!"

Gan Guohui silently recorded the classic quotations of his big cousin in a small notebook.