The Golden Age of Basketball

In the era without the Internet, many Americans took a newspaper back from the inbox at the door in the morning, drank milk and ate bread while reading, and the day started like this.

When it comes to resting at noon and going home at night, people will have a newspaper in their hands, which is an important means for modern people to obtain information.

For Portlanders, "Oregonian", "Portland News", "Portland Chronicle" are all important newspapers with large circulation and complete information, and they are also the most subscribed by every household newspaper.

But on the day of November 11th, in Portland’s street newsstands, a newspaper sold out of stock and became the newspaper with the largest circulation in Portland that day—the little-known “Portland Country Music Gazette.

Oddly, it was a music newspaper, and it was a niche country music newspaper, with a small but steady circulation in the Portland area, and a solid readership.

However, in the "Portland Country Music News" issued on November 11, the headlines were not news about the country music circle in the western region, but a full-page interview with Gan Guoyang, explaining that Gan Guoyang was attacked on November 8. Portland police arrested and subsequently released the issue.

No one expected that Gan Guoyang would choose such a small newspaper that had nothing to do with sports as an outlet to explain the truth of the arrest to the outside world. This also caused the "Portland Country Music News" to be in short supply in Portland. The factory has reprinted several times to supply newspapers to the market.

In the exclusive interview, Gan Guoyang explained the misunderstanding in more detail, indicating that the case was related to the "Jiangnan case", but his arrest was purely a misunderstanding, and also clarified the previous rumors that Gan Guoyang was involved with gangsters and drug dealers , but he didn't mention the reason for all the misunderstandings that Colter was stopped by him from buying drugs. He didn't want Colter to be affected too much.

After the interview was published in the newspaper, Gan Guoyang's rumors were quickly confirmed by the Portland police, because the "Jiangnan case" was not a secret case in the United States. Has dropped a lot. [

At this time, one of the main culprits in the Jiangnan case was arrested in Portland, which also aroused renewed attention from the media and the public to the case, and Gan Guoyang was the trigger.

Now the fuse is to successfully get himself out of the storm of public opinion. One of the important reasons why he chose the "Portland Country Music News" is that he relied on this unpopular small newspaper to report the facts and at the same time It will not attract too much attention, and even lead the "disaster" to the east, and let the big media go to the police station or FB to ask for clarification.

At the same time, the reporter Gan Guoyang chose this time is also very special. It is a Chinese reporter who works for the country music newspaper—Wu Zhiwen. He has never reported sports or social news before, and mainly writes about entertainment circles. gossip.

Wu Zhiwen has another identity, that is, a die-hard fan of the Portland Trail Blazers and Gan Guoyang. Because of this, the reporter of this music tabloid gave Gan Guoyang a business card with the attitude of giving it a try, wondering if he could help Idol one.

Unexpectedly, Gan Guoyang actually contacted him, and quickly conducted a simple interview. When Wu Zhiwen brought the script of the interview to the president of the newspaper, the president couldn't believe it.

But the president made a decisive decision and immediately opened a column for this interview to report in a large space, so as to increase the popularity of "Portland Country Music News", although this newspaper will hardly have the opportunity to do such reports in the future .

Gan Guoyang, who has completed an important task, can finally re-enter the basketball game. On November 11th, the Portland Trail Blazers will face the Seattle SuperSonics at home.

Compared with last season, the Sonics lineup has not changed much. Jack Sikma is still in this emerald green army. He is already the last player left in the 1979 championship Sonics lineup. One year he was still just a second-year rookie.

On the other hand, the young players of the Sonics have begun to grow rapidly. After three seasons of experience, Tom Chambers has become a reliable inside scorer, but his defense and rebounding ability are still worrying.

The biggest surprise for the Sonics should be the small forward they won with the fourth pick in the first round of the draft this year, Xavier "x-mn" McDaniel.

The rookie was almost seamlessly connected with the nb game. He quickly adapted to the faster and stronger confrontation, as well as the new game time and game rules. In the first few games, he repeatedly played comprehensive statistics.

In the first game against Dallas, he scored 16 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 steals, which is amazing.

In the last two games, against the New York Knicks and the Warriors, he scored 21 points and 14 rebounds and 25 points and 9 rebounds respectively. The performance of an ordinary rookie is not enough to prove that this is a talented player. young people.

It's just that the strength of the Sonics is still weak. After six games in the opening season, they only achieved a record of 2 wins and 4 losses. They won two games against the teams in the East and lost all four games against the teams in the West.

This time they came to Portland, they are also in bad luck. Last season against the Trail Blazers, the Supersonics only won one game. win. [

The season has just started, and when everyone is running in, morale, and state are average, the Blazers with stronger personal abilities naturally have the advantage, and they also have the advantage of the home court.

In the first quarter of the game, the Blazers played a 33:14 game against the Sonics. Vandeweghe faced the rookie McDaniel and gave McDaniel a good lesson with his rich offensive skills. He scored 11 points in a single quarter. Mike Daniel was almost beaten to tears.

In the second quarter, the Supersonics started a crazy counterattack, but the Blazers fell into a trough in the offense. Everyone's touch dropped to freezing point, but at this time Gan Guoyang started to exert strength on the defensive end, and he sent four consecutive hot pots to the Supersonics. , so that the Supersonic players no longer dare to hit the basket easily.

Therefore, the second quarter turned into a black-and-white battle. The Blazers only scored 15 points, and the Sonics only scored 20 points. The Blazers still maintained a 14-point lead after halftime.

In the third and fourth quarters, the Blazers, who had regained their touch, were able to score goals on the offensive end. Correspondingly, Gan Guoyang also relaxed his defense against the Supersonics, and the two sides entered a see-saw period.

Among them, Gan Guoyang still sent out two blocks in the third quarter. He gave the Supersonics a total of 8 big blocks in the whole game, which made the Supersonic players feel a little soft when they saw Gan Guoyang go forward every time they shot.

In the second half of the fourth quarter, the game finally lost its suspense. The Blazers finally defeated the visiting Seattle Supersonics at home 96:84, 12 points. burden.

After the game, Gan Guoyang, who scored 22 points, 15 rebounds, and 8 blocks, was interviewed by the media. The questions about the arrest incident finally dropped a lot, and the reporters also focused on basketball. This is exactly what Gan Guoyang is happy to watch arrived.

In the next few days, everything was very calm, and even the game was a little dull, because the Blazers' schedule at the beginning of the season was really too easy.

In the first nine games, their opponents were the Suns, Warriors, Clippers, Jazz, Knicks, Rockets, Mavericks, Sonics, Cavaliers and Kings.

Except that the Rockets are a strong team that needs to be head-to-head, and the Blazers also lost the game, some other opponents are really relatively weak.

And the Trail Blazers mostly played at home, and on November 11 they faced the challenge of the Cleveland Cavaliers at home.

The "Millennium Bad Team" didn't seem to be recovering immediately after getting rid of their hapless owner, Ster Stepien, and they made another stupid trade in the quality of the 85 draft.

The Cavaliers selected power forward Charles Oakley from the University of Virginia with the ninth overall pick, and they traded the solid blue-collar power forward to the Chicago Bulls in the same district for rookies Keith Lee and Ennis Waitley.

Oakley will become one of the best blue-collar power forwards in the league in the future, and Lee will build it. Waitley is also just a homeless player who wanders the teams.

The Cavaliers naturally added another stroke of color to their poor historical transaction records. This team led by young George Karl, of course, could not break through the Blazers' solid home court, but it really caused some damage to the Blazers. trouble.

Throughout the game, the Cavaliers played very well. The number one star Fury even scored 30 points, and they kept the score until the end.

At the critical moment, Gan Guoyang made a key defensive steal against Fury, and Drexler scored a fast break layup to stabilize the situation and keep the victory until the end.

Subsequently, the Blazers at home and just moved this season, the Kansas Kings team, should now call them the Sacramento Kings.

After this campaign, the Trail Blazers' record has become 8 wins and 1 loss, ranking first in the Western Conference, and they are tied for first place with them, of course, the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers.

The atmosphere of the Blazers has calmed down as they continue to win. All the previous undercurrents have been temporarily overshadowed by the joy of victory. Ramsey has no sign of leaving, and Inman has not mentioned the matter of trading or contract renewal. , everything looks fine.

The next game of the Trail Blazers is to challenge the Los Angeles Lakers away.

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