The Golden Age of Basketball

()(The editor said that it will soon hit the new book list, and the new book issue is only one week away, so I gritted my teeth and added another chapter. It happened to deal with the plot outside the game, and the California Championship is coming soon. Thank you very much I don’t have much support from readers. It is reasonable to say that my collection is very popular, but I found that my red tickets are relatively large. This shows that the readers who read the book still love and support me. There are also good jrs from hupu. I will continue to focus on this point. What's more, I am very confident in my story, because the only one that wrote 80s has no branch, and I have a lot of goods in my mind. But I still hope to see it The book friends of this book collect it, and watch their collection data climb one by one, it is quite exciting, but it is a bit slow, because the previous books have not been updated for a long time!! It’s a bit too much, Read a book, use your Baidu if you are interested.)

From January to February 1982, the weather in the United States began to gradually turn from cold to warm.The thin snow in California is slowly melting, and the warm monsoon blowing from the Pacific Ocean is beginning to bring the breath of spring.

The regular season of the 1981-1982 season of the California High School Basketball League is drawing to a close. High school teams of all levels and divisions are about to complete their schedules, and the team rankings are gradually becoming clear.

On February 2th, the last day of February, at midnight, there will be more than half an hour before entering March.In a movie theater in San Francisco, this year's hit movie "Conan the Barbarian" is playing.

This violent action movie starring Schwarzenegger swept the world and grossed more than $1 million at the box office, which was a very remarkable achievement in the 80s.This film also started Schwarzenegger's road to action superstar.

At this time, in a corner of this movie theater, there were two tall figures, nestled on the bench in the back row, watching the big fluorescent screen, without blinking their eyes.

This movie theater was opened earlier in San Francisco, so the venue is not big and the facilities are a bit old.The front row is all individual leather seats, while the rear row is a long wooden bench.

"Gan, do you think the sword in Conan's hand is real? You don't use real weapons as props in movies?" one of them asked softly, and the other was obviously Gan Guoyang.

"It must be a fake. The sword used in the fight should be a prop made of some special material, but when the close-up was taken, it seemed to be a real sword." Gan Guoyang also replied softly.

As a traveler who has seen all kinds of incredible high-tech movies in the 21st century, the simulation props in "Conan the Barbarian" are just tricks in the eyes of Gan Guoyang.However, the big snake model in the movie surprised Gan Guoyang. He didn't expect that Hollywood's model production level was already so high at this time.

And the person sitting next to Gan Guoyang who would occasionally ask questions while watching a movie intently was Wilt Chamberlain.

Chamberlain played two and a half seasons in San Francisco, and his No. 13 jersey was also retired by the Warriors.Therefore, he still has a lot of affection for the city of San Francisco.

Although he mainly lives in New York after retiring, running his nightclub, real estate, and stock business, but this time he went to San Francisco to spend Christmas with his old friends, and after getting to know Gan Guoyang, a "little friend", he decided to stay here. The last period of time, and this stay until the end of February of the second year, it is almost March.

Because Chamberlain was there, Gan Guoyang took time to go back to San Francisco every weekend to play with Chamberlain at the Big Nate Grill. Of course, the most important thing was to learn the fadeaway jumper.

After entering the new year in January, the California high school league has entered a more intense competition period. Many teams are working hard to qualify for the state championship, including the Palo Alto Vikings.

The Vikings' goal isn't just to enter the state bid, though, but to enter the California State Basketball Championship as District No. 1!

In this year's California Basketball League, there will be more than 200 teams entering the "playoffs," which means qualifying for the state championship.

There are five divisions of high schools in California, and Palo Alto's second division -- the class of schools with 1600 to 2000 students -- will have 56 teams enter the state championship.

The 56 teams will be divided into two regions, Southern California and Northern California, to compete separately, and finally decide the champion of Southern California and the champion of Northern California, and these two teams will compete for the final state championship.

Of course, the same is true for other districts, which means that there will eventually be 5 state champions, which is unique among all states in the United States.

Now, the Vikings have made great strides on the way to the state championship, or they have begun to prepare for the state championship.

In the 32 games that have ended, they have achieved an astonishing record of 29 wins and 3 losses, and they have already secured the top spot in the division.

What is even more surprising is that after Gan Guoyang returned, the Vikings only lost one game. The reason for the loss in that game was that Gan Guoyang ate a hamburger before the game and his stomach broke down and he couldn't play normally...

In the 27 games he participated in, Gan Guoyang averaged 28.5 points, 14.9 rebounds, 4.1 blocks and 3.5 assists per game, which can be said to be thriving in the entire California region.

If it weren't for his identity as a yellow race, he would have been on the covers of major basketball magazines by now.

Come early March, the last regular season game will be over, at which point all teams that finish first in the division will go directly to the state championship, and the remaining teams will be selected by committee.After the roster is determined, the schedule will be based on the geographic location of the high school.

Before the start of the official championship, each team will have about two weeks of rest until mid-March, when the California Basketball Tournament and the National NCAA College Basketball Tournament will start together, and the entire United States will fall into the "Crazy March" of basketball !

The movie gradually came to an end with the arrival of the climax. At this moment, Chamberlain stood up from the back row and said to Gan Guoyang next to him, "Let's go first, or there will be troubles if there are too many people later."

Chamberlain's figure is so eye-catching, he will be recognized wherever he goes, and he will be pulled over by passers-by to take a group photo.And Chamberlain is warm and generous, and rarely refuses the fans' requests. It is very difficult for him to walk on the streets of San Francisco.

So today Chamberlain and Gan Guoyang chose such an old small movie theater, and chose to come to watch the movie at the midnight show, and sat in the last row, and delayed entry by 5 minutes.Now they have to leave early.

"Okay, let's go." Gan Guoyang nodded, and followed Chamberlain to leave the auditorium like a thief.

Fortunately, there were no fans of Chamberlain among the staff of the cinema, so although they saw the two giants, Chamberlain and Gan Guoyang, staring wide-eyed, they did not come up to ask for autographs.

The two left the movie theater smoothly, and Gan Guoyang got into Chamberlain's custom-made golden-yellow Lamborghini "Searcher", and drove like lightning on the midnight streets of San Francisco.

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This song can be regarded as the city song of San Francisco. McKenzie's slightly lazy voice and the free and free atmosphere in the lyrics coincide with the atmosphere of San Francisco and even California.

Chamberlain quickly drove the car to the beach and opened the roof of the car, letting the night sea breeze blow on their faces.The sound of the music is even more indistinct in the sound of the wind, fluttering and scattered, as if it is the sound from the sky.

"Gan, do you want to enter the NBA?" Chamberlain asked Gan Guoyang suddenly.

"Well, of course." Gan Guoyang replied without hesitation.

"Gan, remember, you must control your destiny in your own hands." Chamberlain turned his head and glanced at Gan Guoyang and said.

"Uh..." Hearing this, Gan Guoyang thought of the Bill Russell he had met. He also said that he should "control himself".Later Thurmond also told him that the king not only controls himself, but also controls others.

"Haha, you will understand in the future. There are too many involuntary people in this world. Whether you are a tiny caterpillar or a huge elephant, you have to fight for your own destiny." Chamberlain saw that Gan Guoyang did not speak, said again.

"Then can you control your own destiny now?" Gan Guoyang asked.

"Maybe, I can do what I want to do, open a nightclub, run around the country, and do all kinds of things I like."

"But the only thing I can't control is loneliness," Chamberlain changed his tone, "No one likes Goliath."

Goliath was a biblical giant who was eventually killed by David.

And Chamberlain is like Goliath among ordinary people, regarded as an outlier.He's unquestionably a superstar, but people still like David more than Goliath.

"A giant is always lonely." Gan Guoyang said, because he is already a 6-foot-9 giant now, and he will not be 6 feet in later generations.

His basketball future looks bright now, but sometimes he misses life when he was short.

That way he doesn't have to bow his head when he enters the door, the bed doesn't need to be lengthened, and he doesn't scare the kids all the time when he goes out on the street on weekends.He can live an ordinary student life like an ordinary person, instead of being the focus of attention wherever he is now.

Perhaps one day he will face the same troubles as Chamberlain, and he must avoid this society in exchange for peace.

"Then learn to enjoy loneliness." Chamberlain said with a smile after listening to Gan Guoyang's words, and accelerated the speed of the car again.

"Then what are you going to do next?" Gan Guoyang asked.

"I... I'm going to participate in the filming of a movie! That kid Jabbar has also made one, and I want to make one now!" Chamberlain watched a movie tonight and thought about making a movie. In Gan Guoyang's eyes, he looked too much like a man. Just kidding, although it's not too difficult for a star like Chamberlain to be in a movie.

However, two years later, Chamberlain did appear in a movie.

And the name of that movie is "Conan the Destroyer", which is the sequel to the movie "Conan the Barbarian" that the two of them watched tonight!

"By the way, Gan, there is only one game left in the high school league? I heard that you have already won the first place in the division." After talking about his plan, Chamberlain began to care about Gan Guoyang's high school league.

The high school league in California is still very famous in the United States, not only because it is rich in NBA stars, but also because of the league system here.All high schools in California, regardless of public, private, or size, can join the CIF (California Interschool Federation), so the number of participating teams in the entire league has reached a staggering 1300.

Because of the large number, California has to classify all teams according to the size of the number of people, which makes it impossible to start a state-wide chaos like Indiana, which reduces the level of excitement.

However, a large number of games and high-quality high school players can still attract the attention of basketball players across the United States, especially in California where there are many famous basketball schools, such as LA, which also makes the California High School Basketball League more attractive.

In the McDonald's All-American High School All-Star Game in 1981 last year, four of the 24 high school star players came from California, accounting for one-sixth of the total number, and the United States has a total of 4 states.

"Yes, but according to Coach Behrman, he probably won't let me play in the last game, for fear that I'll get hurt." For Behrman now, Gan Guoyang is a treasure, and no one can do without him.The Vikings with Gan Guoyang and without Gan Guoyang are basically two teams.

"Hehe, you are the biggest reliance of the Vikings now, but you still have to remember that the game is always five people, don't imagine that you can rely on one person to win the final victory, maybe you can in high school, but in the future it will never be. possible."

It can be said that Chamberlain has a deep understanding of what he said. He made a big splash in high school and college. Since he entered the NBA in 1959, he has started to refresh various records in personal data.In the first seven years of his career, he won the scoring title seven times, setting a super record of 50 points in a single game and [-] points per game in a single season.

However, in the past seven years, he has had nothing and nothing; while his predecessor and opponent Bill Russell has won 9 championships, including an eight consecutive championships that created the history of American professional sports.

Finally, in 1967, Chamberlain's eighth season in the NBA, he was no longer the leading scorer.But his Philadelphia 76ers created the league's best record and defeated the eight-time champion Celtics in the playoffs. Chamberlain personally ended Russell's eight-year rule.

Eight years, this is a tormenting time for Chamberlain. In the loneliness and accusations, he kept trying to do better. He scored more and more points and grabbed more and more rebounds, but he still didn’t There is a way to catch up with the green back in front.

Now, he didn't want this kind of pain to be imposed on the young man next to him.Although sometimes arduous tempering is a necessary condition for superstars to shine, but more people have become dust instead of diamonds under heavy pressure.

Even a rare talent like Chamberlain had the idea of ​​retiring in the second season.

"Thank you, Mr. Wilt. I think maybe I will always be alone, but on the court, every teammate will be my brother, and every opponent will be my enemy. Ball (no brothers, no basketball)."

The clock on the car crossed midnight, February was over, March had arrived, and it was going to be a crazy March.