The Golden Age of Basketball

The figure Gan Guoyang saw in the restaurant was none other than Steve Colter.

In tonight's game against the Jazz, Ramsey gave Coulter enough time to play and play, but his performance was still disappointing.

1 point, 2 assists, and 2 steals. Except for the bright spot in steals, which shows that Colter is still working hard, 1 point and 2 assists are really horrible.

Ramsey also seemed to have given up on Coulter after the game, and made a few quick remarks in the locker room summary, and then the big guys went to the interview together.

Gan Guoyang knew that Colter had slipped deeper and deeper into the abyss of drugs. His passing in the game could make Gan Guoyang feel that the precision control was not as good as before. In the past, Colter fed Gan Guoyang the ball. excellent.

In defense, Colter can still rely on physical strength and hard work to entangle with opponents. In offense, especially the point guard position that requires brains, Colter is completely incompetent. All he can do is dribble across half court and hand over the ball. Then stayed aside.

If this continues, it will be a matter of time before Terry Porter replaces Colter as the first backup point guard, perhaps in the next game.

While chatting with Stockton and Hansen, Gan Guoyang saw Colter wearing a tracksuit and a hat, standing furtively on the street, exchanging something with someone.

The lights in Chinatown are not particularly bright at night. Colter is standing on a street corner, which is not very eye-catching. He is wearing a sports cap. Most people, even Trail Blazers fans, should not recognize him. At night, black people are just A mass of black.

But Gan Guoyang, who played with Colter for a season, can still recognize Colter's figure, which is completely the figure of a basketball player, not like an ordinary person.

Gan Guoyang walked quickly to the corner of the street. Some people on the road had recognized Gan Guoyang and greeted him. Gan Guoyang just nodded and continued to walk there.

Gan Guoyang was too tall, and Colt quickly noticed him, and the person who exchanged things with him also saw Gan Guoyang. The two seemed to be frightened, and they were too slow to turn around and run away. Gan Guoyang strode forward and grabbed him. The collars of the two of them were caught.

Gan Guoyang's big hands combined with extraordinary strength were like two big pincers holding the two people tightly, and they couldn't move at all when they wanted to break free.

"Steve, you played like shit tonight! The game is over, you come here and buy some drugs, go back and enjoy it, then play like shit again in the next game, and end up being killed by another rookie Instead, lose your job in the NBA and go to the street to beg for food with that pitiful contract money!" Gan Guoyang ignored the gazes of passers-by, grabbed Colter by the collar, lifted him up, and yelled at him road.

Although Karl told Gan Guoyang not to deal with Colter's affairs and let him fend for himself, Gan Guoyang still couldn't bear to see Colter running to the street to buy drugs after a terrible game. Hold back the anger in your heart.

In any case, Colter is also one of the five rookies who entered the Trail Blazers with him. In any case, the two also have the friendship of teammates. If he can pull it, he still wants to pull it.

Colter stopped struggling after hearing Gan Guoyang's words, and let Gan Guoyang carry it, but turned his head aside, not daring to look into Gan Guoyang's eyes, which were full of anger and regret.

"Mr. Gan, can you put me down first? It's not a good sight on this street." Gan Guoyang heard someone speaking Mandarin from the other side, and it didn't have a Hong Kong or Taiwan accent. It was an authentic mainland Mandarin.

Only then did Gan Guoyang notice that the other hand was holding a Chinese man!

However, in Chinatown, it is quite normal to catch a Chinese, and most of the onlookers are also Chinese.

Gan Guoyang found that this person struggled twice and found it was useless, so he quickly stopped trying and waited until Gan Guoyang finished speaking before speaking, and his tone was very calm, not at all afraid.

After Gan Guoyang heard this, he let go of the two "big men". Although Colter is a point guard, he is definitely tall among ordinary people, and this Chinese man looks 6 feet tall. There are many, and it is also one of the best among the Chinese in Chinatown.

It's just that compared with Gan Guoyang, both of them have become dwarfs, and Gan Guoyang's strength is really amazing, he easily arrested the strong men among ordinary people, and even caught two in one.

"Mr. Gan really lives up to his reputation. You have long been the idol of all the Chinese in Chinatown. It is a great honor for me to be caught by you." This young man wearing a striped cashmere sweater and looking very energetic said a little glibly. .

Gan Guoyang looked at this man, no matter how he looked at him, he didn't look like a drug dealer. In his impression, the drug dealer himself should also take drugs, and he should look neither human nor ghost, with a hunched back and a gloomy face, as if It's like not seeing the sun for hundreds of years.

Gan Guoyang doesn't really want to get involved with drug dealers or underworld people. He knows that Chinatown is very chaotic and the social security situation is very complicated. Things are implicated.

So Gan Guoyang didn't take the Chinese man's word, looked at Colter, and pulled him to leave.

"Ah, ah, star Gan, hero Gan, please stop! I haven't finished my sentence yet! Although I don't know where we offended you, I am also your fan anyway. You are really giving us China in the United States. People have a long face, our boss has a lot of face when he goes out to negotiate with people! Especially with those Koreans and Japanese, what do you think they have? Why should they compete with us? Boss Gan, please sign me first, I can go back and talk to our boss about this 'stick' problem, if you don't like your team's players smoking this thing, we won't sell it to them!" Then, the young man took out a stick from his pocket. In a small book, I tore off a piece of paper from the last page and handed it to Gan Guoyang, which naturally meant asking Gan Guoyang to sign it.

Stick means marijuana in American slang, and Gan Guoyang can still understand it, but he listened to this guy calling him a big star Gan, a hero Gan, and the boss Gan again. Will call him "Chairman Gan".

Gan Guoyang still took the piece of paper from the other party, took the pen, signed his name on the piece of paper seriously, and handed it to this drug dealer who was a bit of a second grader.

"Wait a minute! Also, the one on this piece of paper is for my elder brother, and I want to keep one for myself! Come on, on my clothes, the clothes inside, the white T-shirt, whatever Come!" As he spoke, the guy lifted his coat, revealing the white T-shirt inside.

Gan Guoyang had no choice but to continue to sign for him, and while signing, Gan Guoyang could see the strong muscles in the man's abdomen and a long scar on it.

The young man also seemed to have noticed that Gan Guoyang saw his scar, and said braggingly: "This scar was left when we competed with the Japanese for territory! I was chasing the little Japanese with the scar at that time. Cut three streets!"

"Well, I thought it was left during your caesarean section..." Gan Guoyang finally spoke to him.

"Hahahaha, Mr. Gan, you are so humorous~ Well, from now on, if we don't sell drugs, we will just be players! Colter, if you want to buy them in the future, you can find someone else!" This young man didn't look like an ordinary drug dealer. He looks like he has a say in his so-called gang.

"By the way, Boss Gan, my name is Feng Guangyao. If you come to Chinatown to play in the future, you can come to me anytime!" After speaking, the young man named Feng Guangyao turned and left, disappearing into the dim lights of Chinatown.

"Where did you come from..." Gan Guoyang looked at this lively drug dealer, and couldn't help feeling a little puzzled in his mind.

But soon Colt gave him the answer.

"The first time I traded with him, it wasn't him before, but other people. He was not a drug dealer. He was a leader of the big circle. Today he came to trade in person. I don't know why. He seems to be I don’t have much experience in trading, so I chose the place carelessly, and you discovered it..." Colt said, as if he was still blaming that guy for being careless.

Gan Guoyang glared at Colter, but didn't say anything else. He found that Colter still felt a little guilty after being caught and revealed himself, otherwise he would turn his back on and leave Gan Guoyang to take him.

Afterwards, Gan Guoyang took Colt back to the hotel. Stockton and Hansen didn't know what happened, but they tacitly didn't ask any further questions.

The four ate together for a while, and the opponents on the court were also friends off the court.

After the end, Colter drove Stockton and Hansen back to the hotel, and then sent Gan Guoyang home.

"Cort, I hope you will think not only for yourself, but also for your family members. Believe me, if you stay in this league, your contract amount will get higher and higher, and the money you will earn will be higher and higher. Instead of consuming all your abilities on drugs and ending up in poverty, what about your family? What about your mother?" After arriving home, Gan Guoyang sat in the car and said to Colter.

Colter fell silent, and after a while he nodded, although he didn't speak, Gan Guoyang could feel him softening.

"Okay, let's see Colter tomorrow, I will run to where you live, and then we will go to training together!" After finishing speaking, Gan Guoyang opened the car door, said goodbye to Colter and went home.

"You're finally back Gan. I have your phone number. Your agent, Mr. Falk, has been looking for you. You call him back." Behrman said to Gan Guoyang as soon as he got home.

Gan Guoyang pressed the voice mailbox of the phone, and Falke's voice came from inside: "Call me back Gan, it's important, I'm going to Portland after a while, and I'll discuss with you about your second contract." .”