The Golden Age of Basketball

On July 1985, 7, a large-scale rock concert called "Save Lives" was held simultaneously in London, England, and Philadelphia, the United States. This charity concert initiated by Bob Gerdorf and Miz Urie attracted Nearly 13 billion TV viewers.

More than 100 famous rock stars from all over the world participated in this concert aimed at raising funds to alleviate the famine in Ethiopia. Among them are Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Elton John and Michael Jackson. musician.

On August 1985, 8, a month later, Japan Airlines Flight 12, a Boeing 123, crashed in Japan. Only 747 of the 524 people on board survived, making it the deadliest aviation accident in history.

The living are still living, the dead are dead.

Gan Guoyang watched the newspapers and TV reports on the aviation tragedy, and felt sorry for the lost lives. At the same time, he thought of all kinds of disasters that might happen in the future. He already knew the result, but he couldn't change it. The feeling made him a little dull.

He has been in Houston for more than a month, during which Wang Fuxi went to Houston to enjoy the customs of Texas. Michael Jackson also called to invite Gan Guoyang to attend the charity performance in Philadelphia, but these None of them disrupted Gan Guoyang's training plan for himself.

For more than a month, with the help of Coach Lewis, Gan Guoyang formulated a complete training plan to comprehensively improve his confrontation skills so that he can make better use of his strength.

At the same time, he is also practicing the small hook. Now Olajuwon often falls into a disadvantage when he is one-on-one with Gan Guoyang, because he does not know when Gan Guoyang will make a big hook and when he will make a small hook.

If one day Gan Guoyang perfects the turnaround jumper, then he is likely to become the most threatening insider in the league. [

For the past month, Gan Guoyang has lived in Drexler's former home in Houston, living with Drexler's brothers and sisters.

Drexler's family relationship is relatively complicated. His mother was divorced and remarried, and before her two marriages, she had a fiancé—a policeman who died in the line of duty, and had a son with him, that is, Drexler's big brother.

In addition, Drexler's mother gave birth to six children in the latter two marriages, and the family has a total of seven, which can be said to be very lively.

Drexler happens to be fourth in the family, right in the middle. Except for his younger siblings who are still in school, the other brothers and sisters already have jobs in Houston, and the elder brother is married and has children.

So on weekends, Drexler's home is full of people, which makes Gan Guoyang, who has lived alone in Portland for a long time, feel the warmth of home.

But in the past few days, the atmosphere at Drexler's home has not been so enthusiastic, because Drexler was injured.

"Dinglingling~" The phone in Gan Guoyang's room rang. At this time, Gan Guoyang was depressed after watching the news. When he heard the ringing of the phone, he knew it was probably Drexler's call.

"Hi, Clyde, how are you doing in Portland?" Gan Guoyang asked directly after picking up the phone.

"Hey Gan, how do you know it's me?" Sure enough, Drexler's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Of course, who else would call your home to find me besides you? Tell me how you are doing now?" Gan Guoyang asked.

Drexler trained hard at the University of Houston for nearly two months, because in the Western Conference Finals last season, Drexler defended Magic Johnson, but was beaten by Johnson's post-up singles.

For this reason, in addition to practicing various techniques hard, Drexler is also actively gaining muscle and weight, striving to increase his weight from 210 pounds to more than 225 pounds.

As a result, there was a problem with this weight gain. Drexler's left leg knee was damaged. Drexler had to call the team's team doctor Cook and fly back to Portland for treatment. Treatment left Gan Guoyang alone in Houston.

"It's not bad, but it's not great either. Dr. Cook gave me a diagnosis. He said there was something wrong with my fibula. The bone was under too much pressure and cracked. But Dr. Cook said, I don't know. Needs surgery, just needs a good rest, but I can't put on any more weight or it's going to be much worse," Drexler said on the other end of the phone, his voice a little nauseous.

You must know that Drexler is full of confidence this summer. He has made sufficient preparations for next season's game. He wants to completely stabilize his starting shooting guard position next season. The maintenance and improvement of Rexler status. [

"So when will you be able to recover? It's already August, then September will pass, and the team's training camp will start in October. I don't want to see you appear in training camp with a cane. "Gan Guoyang's words showed concern for Drexler.

Gan Guoyang understands that for professional players, losing, losing championships, and poor performance are inevitable and acceptable, but injuries may be the biggest obstacle in a professional player's career.

Gan Guoyang knows in his heart that in the past and in the future, I don’t know how many talented players were eventually destroyed by injuries. The dreams in their careers were not shattered on the field, but they were "finished before they started" outside the field. It is really sad.

Of course, Gan Guoyang also knew that Drexler should have no problems, otherwise he would not have those achievements in the future.

"Fortunately, the recovery is good. Dr. Cook installed a bone stimulation recovery device on my leg, which can help me recover faster. But this thing is really too noisy, buzzing every day Stop, I have to take this alarm clock with me when I sleep." Drexler complained that the recovery equipment at that time was not very advanced, and it was inevitable that there were many defects.

"But I believe you guys must sleep well, nothing can stop you from sleeping." Gan Guoyang said with a smile, Drexler has always been known as the "God of Sleep" in the team, no matter where he is Whenever he thinks about it, he can definitely fall asleep.

Drexler was also amused when he heard this, and laughed on the other end of the phone, and said, "Gan, let me tell you something happy. I'm going to buy a big house near Lake Mountain Park in Portland. It's about 4000 square feet at around $15, what do you think?"

When Gan Guoyang heard about "Hushan Park", he knew that it was a rich area in West Portland, and the villas there were quite good.

And Drexler just signed a two-year contract with the Portland Trail Blazers in the summer. Although it is not a big contract, Drexler is very optimistic about his future prospects in Portland.

"I'm sure I'll be there to celebrate you when your new home is completed, but you only signed a two-year contract, so you're so confident you'll stay in Portland?"

At that time, the signing of NB contracts was not standardized, so there was a 25-year super long-term contract of 2500 million U.S. dollars for Magic Johnson. With Stern's reform, the NB contract will gradually become more complicated and standardized. At the same time, players' salaries will also increase.

This is why Gan Guoyang did not rush to discuss the contract with Portland, he hoped to wait.

"I don't know... But I love Portland, I used to think about Houston... By the way, Gan, you know, Scheffler was cut by the team... You have to find another A sparring partner..."

The two people who were still laughing and laughing suddenly fell silent, especially Gan Guoyang.

In June and July, as soon as the season ended, the players began to take vacations, but the managers of the team became busy. They had to plan strategies for strengthening the team or rebuilding the team for the next season.

Portland didn't do much. They first completed a small transaction in early June, trading Bernard Sampson to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for a second-round pick in 87.

Then in the draft, Inman selected Terry Porter from the University of Wisconsin with the 24th pick in the first round.

Obviously, such a player selected in the first place, of course, cannot be as powerful as the No. [-] pick Ewing, and Portland fans don't know who this Porter is. However, this draft will be Inman's draft Another classic in history.

Immediately afterwards, in the second round of selection, Portland had the first pick. Inman won Canadian center Mike Smryk, but then Inman traded him to the Chicago Bulls. In exchange for two soy sauces, Ben Coleman and Ken Johnson.

Of course, Yinman didn't know that this trade would create a little trouble for the Blazers and Gan Guoyang on the way forward.

In August, the Blazers laid off another soy sauce center, Scheffler, who was already in his 30s and had no potential.

It should be said that the Blazers' draft is still quite good, and the other few transactions are small, and it is expected that Scheffler will be cut. His contribution to the team is indeed too small.

But Gan Guoyang felt very uncomfortable. Although Scheffler was not capable, he had a good relationship with Gan Guoyang off the court, and he was also Gan Guoyang's queen training partner.

Compared with Olajuwon, Scheffler is a bit lame as a training partner, and he can't force Gan Guoyang to do his best.

But Gan Guoyang still misses this well-mannered old center with a moustache. He knows that this is a man with dreams, and he has never stopped working hard to enter the nb.

"Gan, I know you are very uncomfortable. I was also very sad when I encountered this kind of thing for the first time. You know, the Trail Blazers and Nuggets made a big trade last season. Leaf and Knight are my good friends. friends, but they suddenly went to the Nuggets. And in the playoffs, I played seven games with them... This is nb, this is business..." Drexler heard that Gan Guoyang did not speak, and comforted him road.

"I know... In fact, I hope that Scheffler can be traded, so the next time I meet him on the court, it will be easy for me to single him out. It's just that I'm afraid that he may never be able to play in NBA again."

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