The Golden Age of Basketball

"...lrry, fe, fe-wy...got-t! he-got-t! (Larry, turn, fadeaway...Goal! He made it!)"

Gan Guoyang sat on the sofa in the training hall and watched the video repeatedly. The video was playing the scene of Bird leaning back to kill the Blazers in the Boston Garden.

"Hey, Gan, are you still watching? You've been watching for a long time, no matter how you look at it, you won't win this game."

"It's okay Clyde, I'll leave later, or you can go first."

"Okay Gan... By the way, I forgot to tell you. The results of the All-Star voting are out. You are the backup center in the West. You squeezed Sigma out. Congratulations."

"thanks……"

The training hall where Drexler left left Gan Guoyang alone in the video room, staring at the flickering fluorescent screen in a daze in the dark.

After Bird's magical lore in the Garden Square, the Blazers rectified a little, and then returned to Portland to continue to face the Los Angeles Lakers. Two consecutive games against the two top teams in the league caused the Blazers to suffer a huge blow. test.

In Portland, they didn't seem to be able to recover quickly from a one-point loss to Boston. They were massacred by the Lakers at the Memorial Stadium and lost 106 to 122. [

After that, in successive games against the Bucks, Spurs, Warriors, and Jazz, the Blazers also won and lost, and failed to continue their momentum on the first day of the new year.

Among them, the most sluggish performance should be Gan Guoyang. After the game against the Celtics, his state began to fluctuate. The offense was good and bad. The key is that his most stable defense also had loopholes.

According to common sense, it is very normal for a rookie to have such a situation in the middle and late seasons, that is, before the All-Star Game, because now is the most competitive time in the league, and all teams are fighting desperately to enter the playoffs .

Once the All-Star Game is over, it means that the regular season has entered the final stage, and each team will have to make a final sprint.

Therefore, the players, coaches and staff of the Trail Blazers all expressed their understanding of Gan Guoyang's downturn, and continued to encourage him, hoping that he could get out of the predicament as soon as possible.

But only Gan Guoyang knew that things were far from that simple.

As a non-senior fan in later generations, Gan Guoyang knew very little about the situation of 80snb, so he didn't have any special feelings when he came to this time and space to play with the stars of this era.

He thought that if he was reborn in 1993 and started playing nb in 1996, then he would know many more stars.

However, he has heard of Larry Bird's name, and he has watched a lot of Larry Bird's videos, and he has also deeply experienced Larry Bird's superior strength in the game against Boston.

Losing to Bird is not a difficult thing to accept, but the problem lies in the last ball.

Bird's lore this time is famous in history, and it has repeatedly appeared in various Bird videos of later generations, so Gan Guoyang has also seen this lore, and it is firmly imprinted in his mind.

And just when Bird was catching the ball and preparing to shoot in that game, Gan Guoyang's mind flashed the picture of Bird making the shot. At that time, Gan Guoyang was approaching the three-second zone.

When he thought of this ball, he immediately wanted to rush up to interfere with Bird, but he found that he couldn't move!

That is to say, at that moment, Gan Guoyang's body was no longer under the control of his own brain. He wanted to block the shot, but he could only watch Bird make a lore, and then look at Bird with a calm face. Accepting the cheers of the fans at the scene, he quietly left the stadium like a normal person.

As soon as the game was over, Gan Guoyang's body left and he was able to act again. In other words, at the moment when Gan Guoyang was able to change history, he was controlled by some unknown force, and he was not given a chance to change history. [

Now Gan Guoyang's mind was in a daze. He didn't say a word on the way back to Portland, just thinking about it. His teammates thought that Gan Guoyang didn't get out of the failure quickly.

One thing Gan Guoyang is sure of is that after coming to this time and space, he can change history.

For example, let Gonzaga University win the N championship, let Ewing's Georgetown fail, grab Sam Bowie's second place in the list, and change the fate of the Portland Trail Blazers.

But Gan Guoyang also knows that he has not been able to change many things. For example, Olajuwon was still the No. 84 pick in [-], and Stockton finally made a detour and went to the Utah Jazz.

Now, after experiencing the last two seconds in Boston, what Gan Guoyang is most worried about is whether there is a limit in history, some things he can change, and some things cannot.

Those things that don't work, as long as he touches them, they will be hindered by some unknown forces, and even controlled by some forces to do things that can change history.

This kind of speculation has become Gan Guoyang's lingering nightmare recently. The most important thing is that he has no one to talk to, not Drexler, Ramsey, and Wang Fuxi.

He can only think and experiment by himself.

Therefore, he tried his best to search for the few memory images about 80snb in his mind, and then brought them into the past games for analysis.

One thing Gan Guoyang knows is that the current Blazers are absolutely different from the ones in history, so the results of many games must have been changed. What he cares about is that those games have not been changed.

Therefore, watching the video after the game became his daily homework. He watched the first game against the Kansas Kings this season, watched it one by one, and recalled it one by one. Finally, he discovered some question.

For example, in the three-overtime game against the Phoenix Suns, the Blazers were able to eliminate their opponents in regular time, but in that game, Gan Guoyang always made some mistakes at the last moment, and they were some extremely inconspicuous mistakes .

For example, when scrambling for the ball, the three scrambled together, two of the Blazers, and one of the Suns, but the two of the Blazers collided together, allowing the Suns to grab the ball.

For example, Gan Guoyang chose to double-team the breaker and put the three-point line in defense. This is actually the correct choice, but the Suns player can hit a three-pointer, which is unexpected.

Of course, the Blazers won the game in the end, relying on Gan Guoyang's key shot, which is inconsistent with the historical situation. The real history is that the Suns killed the Blazers in three overtimes.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang didn't care about those small mistakes at all. It's very normal for such mistakes to appear in the game. It's not even a mistake, it can only be called "fate".

But in this game against the Celtics, this kind of 'control' showed its flaws, it made Gan Guoyang unable to move in place, and Gan Guoyang knew that the real history was like this, which made Gan Guoyang understand that there must be something wrong .

But where is the problem?

No matter how he thinks about it, Gan Guoyang is still puzzled. In fact, it is unbelievable and understandable for him to travel to this time and space all at once. I have been depressed for many years.

Now, Gan Guoyang thought about the more difficult logical and scientific problem of "whether the time traveler can change history" to no avail.

Not only was there no result, but this kind of hard thinking and fear of unknown forces also affected Gan Guoyang's state, causing him to perform abnormally in many consecutive games.

In this regard, Gan Guoyang even thought that it was the result of unknown forces that caused him to perform poorly in the game, causing the Blazers to lose a few more games and return to the normal ranking.

This kind of thought tortured Gan Guoyang all the time, and made Gan Guoyang, who had been so focused on basketball, begin to doubt himself, doubt everything he had experienced, whether all this was a cosmic scam directed by others, and he was just an ignorant actor.

On February 2, a piece of news that Drexler told Gan Guoyang did not make Gan Guoyang happy, but worried again.

In the All-Star lineup voted by the fans, Gan Guoyang squeezed out the Supersonics center Jack Sigma and became the backup All-Star center in the Western Conference that year.

This means that Gan Guoyang must have changed history, and Sigma's record of being selected to the All-Star seven times must be one less.

This year's All-Star Game will be held in Indianapolis on February 2th, and there are only 10 days left before this star feast, but Gan Guoyang is not at all excited.

"If my fate is decided from the very beginning, then what's the point of my making these efforts? Or, such efforts are also part of my fate?" Gan Guoyang was still sitting in the video hall thinking hard.

"Hey Gan, it's very late, the training hall is closing, get ready to go back." The staff in the training hall came to urge Gan Guoyang, he stayed here for too long.

"Okay, I see." Gan Guoyang knew that even if he thought about it like this, there would be no result.

After leaving the training hall, Gan Guoyang looked at the cars parked outside the training hall, thinking about whether he should drive back.

Originally, the car at home was not used at home when Gan Youwei and Wang Fuxi were away, but Kexi borrowed Gan Guoyang's car to use it once last night, and then stopped at the training hall, and then prepared to go back to the training hall at night. Drive back to Gan Guoyang's house with Gan Guoyang.

But Gan Guoyang stayed in the training hall for too long, and Kexi couldn't wait any longer, so he left first and returned the key to Gan Guoyang.

Now holding the car keys, Gan Guoyang began to hesitate. Before, he never had the urge to drive, because he was not very good at driving. Although he was able to drive in a decent manner under Wang Fuxi's guidance several times, he did not have a driver's license after all. ah.

But tonight Gan Guoyang had a very strong urge to drive back.

"Anyway, it's quite late, and there aren't many cars in Portland at night, why don't you just drive back, I can also practice." Driven by this thought, Gan Guoyang got into the car and inserted the key , started the car.

"Phew, it's not that difficult to drive. No wonder my dad can learn it easily." Gan Guoyang slowly got on the road and drove carefully.

There are cars on the road, but there are not too many, so it is not difficult for him to drive. In addition, he has practiced a few times before, and he still drives decently.

It was getting closer and closer to Gan Guoyang's house, and there were fewer and fewer cars on the road. Gan Guoyang relaxed unconsciously, and the speed of the car became faster and faster.

Near Gan Guoyang's home, there is a big downhill. People who drive here will be careful, because the sight line is relatively poor when passing the slope.

But Gan Guoyang was inexperienced. He put the gear in neutral when going downhill, and wanted to rely on the brakes to brake. He didn't know that the car should rely on the engine gear to brake when going downhill.

At the section just downhill, the car's lights couldn't reach the bottom, but when the car started to go down and the lights hit the road, Gan Guoyang was shocked. He found that there was a person lying on the ground!

The car without engine braking went straight down. Gan Guoyang hurriedly stepped on the brakes, but he did not have the knowledge and experience to deal with emergencies. He slammed on the brakes while turning the steering wheel. dangerous.

"Boom!" Gan Guoyang's car was specially modified, and its structure was not stable. As a result, under such sudden braking and large steering, the car overturned.

Gan Guoyang felt as if he had been kicked violently in a tin box, and he thought in his heart that he was doomed now.

But soon, the car rolled over on the side of the road and was stuck by a tree.

Gan Guoyang stood still in the car for a few seconds, and found that there should be no major problems with him, because the speed of the car was not fast enough, and at the same time his seat belt was fastened, and the airbag was deployed, so apart from a little skin scratches, he should have nothing damage.

Gan Guoyang struggled to get out of the car, he looked around, because this is a residential area for the rich, there are few people, and it was already late, so no one who passed by could see it.

Although the car rolled over, it rolled over on the grass, and it didn't make a lot of noise, and it didn't disturb the nearby residents.

"Who the hell is that guy? Why did he fall in the middle of the road?" Gan Guoyang immediately remembered the man he saw lying in the middle of the road, and he ran over to have a look.

The man was still lying on the slope, but he should not have been crushed by the car.

"Hello, hello? Hello, mn?" Gan Guoyang slowly approached that person. He wondered if this guy was dead, was he beaten to death by gangsters and thrown on the side of the road?

When he got close to this person, Gan Guoyang found that he was a middle-aged white man wearing a red and blue plaid shirt. In a place like Portland and this season, he would freeze to death if he lay on the road without being crushed to death.

"Hey, are you okay?" Gan Guoyang squatted down on him, and he found that this person still had body temperature, and felt his heart beating carefully.

Gan Guoyang shook him vigorously a few more times, wondering if he should call the police.

At this time, the person lying on the road suddenly moved, and at the same time he turned over and lay face-on on the ground.

Gan Guoyang was even more startled when he saw the face of this middle-aged man. The man's appearance was normal, but there were two big scars on his eyes!

Looking at this situation, this guy should be blind!

"What the hell is going on? How could a blind man come here?" Gan Guoyang didn't understand why a blind man would lie in the middle of the road in the middle of the night and commit suicide?

"Hey buddy, what the hell is wrong with you?"

Gan Guoyang called him a few more times, and the blind man slowly woke up, and then sat on the ground, still looking dazed.

"Let's get out of here first, don't stay in the middle of the road." Gan Guoyang stepped forward to help the blind man up, and led him away from the middle of the downhill.

"Where is this?" the blind man began to ask.

"West District, this is the West District."

Gan Guoyang helped the blind man to the grass, and at the same time walked to the overturned car. The car was lying sideways on the grass. Gan Guoyang decided to rely on his own strength to turn the car over!

Gan Guoyang's strength was astonishing, and it was really difficult for him to turn over the overturned car, so Gan Guoyang actually turned the car over without the help of a crane!

After finishing the car, Gan Guoyang walked to the side of the blind man, who still looked confused.

"Hey, hello, why are you lying in the middle of the road? I almost crushed you, but luckily I escaped." Gan Guoyang wanted to ask what was going on with this blind man.

"Where is this place? Why is it so cold?" The blind man asked again.

"This is the West District, Portland." Gan Guoyang replied, and he immediately noticed an extremely strange look on the blind man's face, which was a color mixed with surprise and fear.

"What's the matter, sir? Where do you live? I'll send you back... Oh no, I can't drive now, why don't you go to my house first." Gan Guoyang thought that this guy is blind anyway, so it's okay to take him back. No problem, seeing how little clothes he was wearing, it would be terrible to freeze to death.

"Thank you, I...may I ask your name? From your accent, it seems...you seem to be Chinese..." Although Gan Guoyang's English is very slippery, he still has a Chinese accent.

Gan Guoyang knew that this guy was blind, and his ears must be very sensitive. It was normal for him to be recognized as a Chinese.

"I'm Gan. If you follow basketball, you should have heard of me, sunny-gump." Gan Guoyang replied, and now he is a household name in the United States, after all, he is the first Chinese basketball star.

It's just that if this guy has always been blind, it's normal to not know Gan Guoyang. Blind people don't know how to watch basketball.

However, Gan Guoyang once again saw the previous look of surprise and fear on the face of the blind man. Under the bleak moonlight, coupled with his blind eyes, this expression looked very strange and terrifying. Gan Guoyang saw it Can't help but take a breath of cold air.

"Today... what day is it today?"

“1985年，2月6日，马上就要2月7日了。”