The Golden Age of Basketball

After enduring three days and two nights of harassment in a hotel in Boston, the Blazers could finally challenge the Celtics at Boston Garden Plaza on the 27th at [-]:[-] pm Eastern Time.

When he packed up his things and drove to the Garden Plaza, Gan Guoyang found in the car that a large number of fans had gathered around the Garden Plaza, some drove cars, some rode motorcycles, some walked, and some took public transportation tool.

"It's only past five o'clock, why are there so many people?" Gan Guoyang sat on the team bus and looked at the mighty crowd of fans like going to a market.

So far, Gan Guoyang has played games in many cities with the team, and the fans in each city have their own characteristics.

For example, the behavior of Lakers fans is more civilized, watching the game is supplemented, and communication is the main thing.When Gan Guoyang was in high school, he went to the Great Western Forum Arena to watch the game. He felt that in the first three quarters of the game, many "fans" were not focused on the game at all, but were busy chatting and farting with the people around them.

Although the Great Western Forum arena is almost full, the atmosphere at home is not so strong.

In contrast, the home court of the Trail Blazers, Indiana's home court is more lively, or much louder, which may also have something to do with the design structure of the stadium.

The fans in Texas are relatively loose, and they are often late to watch the game. Gan Guoyang played several away games in Texas. When the first quarter of the game started, the seats were often half empty.

It should be Seattle fans who are more punctual in watching the game, and the same is true for Portland fans. This may have something to do with the climate relationship between the north and the south. [

What Gan Guoyang hates the most should be the fans of Detroit. From the players to the fans of this car city, there is a fierce and domineering smell of motor oil. He still remembers that after he was sent off for punching Lambir , Detroit fans spewed swear words.

Now, Gan Guoyang looks at the Boston fans in green clothes gathering from all directions of the city like green waves of wheat, and wonders what the fans here will look like.

Anyway, judging from what the Blazers have encountered in Boston these days, these fans will not give the Blazers a good look.

"Boston's fans are almost the scariest in nb, but don't worry, play well, there is no stadium in nb that can't be captured." Mitchell Sampson seemed to see that Gan Guoyang was a little nervous. comforted him.

"Yeah." Gan Guoyang nodded. He wasn't afraid. It was just the first time he was playing against a team like the Celtics, and it was still an away game. It was inevitable when he was nervous. ,

"Okay, let's go and see Boston's away locker room first. I hope they can fix the damn radiator this time!" Sampson said with a frown as if recalling some bad memories.

Gan Guoyang didn't understand what Sampson meant until he entered the away locker room.

In the nb arena, it is normal for the home team locker room and the visiting team locker room to be treated differently.

The locker room of the home team is often spacious, well-equipped with all kinds of necessities, and some rich and powerful bosses even decorate the locker room of the home team very luxuriously.

The visiting team's locker room is much more miserable. Not to mention the small space, a lot of equipment is missing, let alone the decoration, it is just ordinary.

Gan Guoyang remembers that in the Portland Memorial Gymnasium Trail Blazers locker room, there are the latest water bath relaxation bathtubs and large massage chairs, but in the visiting team locker rooms of other arenas, these are not available, and there are also cabinets for clothes. Both are small.

But in general, as a professional league, the visiting team locker rooms in various arenas can still meet the basic needs of the players, but this is the first time Gan Guoyang has seen such a dilapidated visiting team locker room as in Boston Garden Plaza.

Needless to say, the space is small, except for a wardrobe for clothes, a few stools, a tactical board, and a few small showers, there is nothing else.

Moreover, as soon as he entered the door of the locker room, Gan Guoyang felt a chilly air. It was January, and the temperature in Boston on the North Atlantic coast was below zero. It was slightly better in the arena because of the heating, but in It was colder inside the locker room than outside.

"Damn it, why does their heating go out every winter! Next time they play in Portland, they must turn off the heating or cooling in the visiting team's locker room!" Sampson must have enjoyed this last year This kind of treatment, but this year still has not changed. [

"Here is Boston. We are going to play against the Celtics. These tests are not tests. The real challenge has not yet begun. Everyone, please change your clothes and warm up on the court. The temperature in the court should be slightly better. .” Ramsay reminded everyone to change their clothes quickly and leave this ghost place.

Gan Guoyang can be regarded as seeing the tip of the iceberg of the horror of the Boston Devils' home court. There is no heating in winter and no air conditioning in summer. This simply makes the away team players freeze to death or die of heat.

In this case, if the players of the visiting team are not fully prepared, the fighting power will be weakened by half before the game starts.

All the players quickly changed their jerseys and sweatshirts, formed a circle in the player channel, shouted the team's slogan, and entered the field first.

"Get-out-of-our-house! (Get out of our home court!)" As soon as the Blazers entered the field, they heard roars from Boston fans in the auditorium.

There are still nearly two hours before the start of the game, but there are already many fans in the auditorium.

"The fans in the East are always so uneducated." Sampson said without looking at the fans.

Since the relationship with Sampson eased, the relationship between Gan Guoyang and him has also become better and better. Gan Guoyang found that Sampson is a guy with a very "personality", and he always looks like he doesn't like anyone at all times.

Although he plays on the court as if clocking in at work, he also has his own ideas about basketball and nb, and although some of his ideas are not necessarily correct, they are always very interesting.

For example, he especially likes to criticize the teams in the East, thinking that the teams in the East are rough and violent, and their fans are uneducated and uneducated. For the fans in Boston, he collectively calls them "bugs in New England."

"Show me a dunk, monkey!" When the Trail Blazers players were warming up on the court, Gan Guoyang found that after a successful layup, a fan behind the basket yelled at him, calling him a monkey.

Gan Guoyang knows that the Boston area is the most racist place in the United States. Many black players are unwilling to play in Boston. Even Bill Russell, the Lord of the Rings in the history of the Celtics, doesn't like Boston very much.After retiring, he lived in Louisiana all year round.

Although Gan Guoyang is not black, he is indeed the only yellow race in the entire nb, so it is normal to provoke provocations from certain racial elements.

Gan Guoyang is too lazy to argue with these fans now, and he can't figure out who among the crowd behind the basket is making insulting remarks.

After more than an hour, more and more spectators entered the arena, and the venue became more and more noisy.

At this time, the entire arena burst into loud cheers. The cheers were obviously not for the Blazers, but for the home team, the Boston Celtics, who had just entered the stadium.

"Don't be nervous, the fans here are country bumpkins who have never seen the world. They will shout when they see the home team players enter the field. If the President of the United States comes, they will have to overturn the roof of the stadium." Sampson still looked disdainful, and he didn't look back at the Celtics who entered the field.

In fact, even if the President of the United States came, the audience probably would not have such cheers. The American people are much more enthusiastic about sports than politics.

Gan Guoyang still looked back, and immediately saw "Big Bird" Larry Bird with conspicuous blond hair and No. 33 among the Celtics players wearing white background and green-edged sportswear.

Gan Guoyang has heard about Bird's deeds that are similar to legends in later generations, and he has always been curious that such a white player who looks average in physical fitness and has no special outstanding features will have such great energy. Create an era.

However, Bird did not look at Gan Guoyang, but practiced shooting on his own on the court. In this regard, he is not at all like a magician.

The Lakers played several games with the Trail Blazers, and every time they warmed up, Johnson would run to the midfield to say hello to Gan Guoyang.Although Johnson never shows mercy in the game, he likes Gan Guoyang very much off the court, and Gan Guoyang also has a good impression of the magician.

And Johnson likes to laugh very much, his smile can infect anyone, and Bird has been cold since he entered the field, just like the cold weather in Boston.

Near seven o'clock, the entire Boston Garden Arena was finally flooded with noise. The atmosphere of the entire venue seemed to have entered the crucial last 2 minutes of the game, but in fact the game hadn't even started yet.

Players from both sides returned to the bench, ready to start the entrance ceremony.

"The last one is from West Barton, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana State University, Larry Bird!"

When the j at the scene introduced Bird to enter the field, the atmosphere of the scene reached the first climax, because there is no cheerleading team at home in Boston, so the fans naturally couldn't pay attention to the beauties of the cheerleading team I had no choice but to release all my enthusiasm and energy on cheering for the Boston heroes.

After j finished introducing the players from both sides, the audience played and sang the American national anthem together, and Gan Guoyang continued to stand there pretending to listen carefully.

After that, the starting players of both sides took off their sportswear, stood on the unique and old parquet floor of the Garden Square, and prepared to start the battle between the top teams in the East and West.

"wele-to-boston. (Welcome to Boston.)" When Gan Guoyang stood in the middle circle, he heard the welcome speech from Larry Bird.

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