The Golden Age of Basketball

In fact, this is the first time Gan Guoyang has entered the interior of Seattle's Space Needle. Although he has played here five years ago, and has also played here twice a season after entering the NBA, he always comes and leaves in a hurry. In a hurry, I can only see this building like an alien flying saucer from a distance.

The Space Needle Tower is a landmark building built in Seattle in 1962 to host the World Expo. Its shape was very avant-garde until the 80s. In fact, the tower body of the Space Needle Tower is a huge steel support frame. , there are up and down elevators inside, and the big flying saucer on the top can really be used for people to visit, restaurants and eat.

Sitting on the elevator, the whole picture of Seattle slowly unfolded in front of Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi. At this time, the rain was still floating in the sky, so Seattle was also hazy.

"Look, the Dome is there!" Wang Fuxi pointed to a large stadium in the distance. Its huge circular dome indicated that this was the Seattle Dome.

Because after Gan Guoyang entered the NBA, the Supersonics changed their home court to the Seattle Center Arena, so it is understandable that Gan Guoyang is not familiar with the route of the Dome.

At this time, Gan Guoyang was not in the mood to find the Dome like Wang Fuxi. He was naturally thinking in his heart, who invited him to the top of the tower? His coming to Seattle to watch the game was purely a private act, so there should be no Everyone knows, and now the big black man beside him seems to have been waiting for him under the tower for a long time.

Gan Guoyang didn't ask the big black man who his boss was. Anyway, if he wanted to, he would tell himself. If he didn't want to, it was useless to ask. He would see his boss soon.

The high-speed elevator quickly arrived at the big flying saucer on the top of the tower, which can be described as a unique cave. Above it is Seattle's famous Sky City restaurant, as well as boutique stores, the most famous of which is their revolving restaurant, which occupies an entire floor, every 47 It will rotate once every minute, so that customers who eat inside can see the scenery outside the window through the window after three to forty-seven minutes.

However, under the leadership of the black man, what Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi went to was not the Sky City Restaurant, nor the revolving restaurant, but the observation deck on the top floor, which is the highest floor of the Space Needle Tower except for the lightning rod. The first floor was added in 1982. It was delayed for 20 years before the top was added due to cost and technical problems.

On this viewing platform that can accommodate hundreds of people, there is actually a Starbucks coffee shop, and the big black man brought two people into this coffee shop.

Seattleites love to drink coffee. The world's most famous chain coffee shop was born in Seattle. The emerald green color of Starbucks brand is also the city color of Seattle. At this time, there are not many people in the coffee shop, only a few tourists. Sit inside and drink coffee while admiring the blurry Olympia outside the window, before it gets dark and out of sight after a while.

The big black man brought Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi to the door of a small private room, knocked on the door, and then opened the door, motioning for the two to go in, then he backed away and left the cafe.

Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi opened the door and walked into the private room, and saw that there were already two people sitting in the small coffee room, one was wearing glasses and had chestnut hair, looking very elegant; while the other had a long face , with a narrow face and a high nose, looks very shrewd.

Both stood up, and the one wearing glasses reached out to Gan Guoyang and said, "Hi, Mr. Gan, and you, Ms. Gan."

Gan Guoyang also extended his hand to shake hands with him. At this time, the long-faced man took out two big woolen blankets from behind the seat and handed them to Gan Guoyang, saying, "We know that you and your wife are getting wet, but there seems to be no suitable blanket here." Your clothes, so two blankets. Also, some coffee to warm you up."

As he spoke, he poured two cups of hot coffee from the coffee pot, handed them to Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi, and said, "Authentic Blue Mountain coffee is produced in Jamaica, and I grind it myself."

Gan Guoyang put a blanket on Wang Fuxi, and then sat down and took a sip of hot coffee. Anyway, he didn't know much about coffee. Blue mountains and red mountains tasted like Banlangen in his mouth.

After drinking, Gan Guoyang did not speak, he was waiting for the two people opposite, and soon, the person wearing glasses began to introduce himself: "It is very presumptuous to invite you to come and have coffee with us, let me introduce briefly, I am Alan, here is This is a good friend of mine, Schultz."

The person wearing glasses simply said two names, but behind them it means huge wealth. He himself is one of the founders of Microsoft, Paul Allen, and the person pouring coffee is the founder of Starbucks. Man, Howard Schultz.

Of course, Gan Guoyang has never heard of these two names. As soon as Paul Allen mentioned the names, Gan Guoyang had already guessed who these two people were, but Wang Fuxi only knew that one was named Allen and the other was named Schultz. They didn't know what they were doing, so they had no choice but to drink coffee with coffee cups in their hands. Authentic Blue Mountain coffee like this is often priced but not sold, and people with money can't drink it.

Gan Guoyang's mind was spinning fast, he remained calm, thinking about what these two guys invited him here for, it is impossible to say that the two just knew that the basketball star Sonny Gan went to Seattle to watch the game and lost his way, Kindly invite him to drink a cup of hot coffee to warm himself up.

Looking at Paul Allen, Gan Guoyang suddenly remembered a key clue. In his later memories of the NBA, the owner of the Blazers was Paul Allen. It seemed that he bought the Blazers at the end of the 80s of.

But in this time and space, the Blazers boss Weinberg saw that the Blazers had achieved outstanding results, and it was simply his best money-making tool. Gan Guoyang heard that someone tried to acquire the Blazers several times, but Weinberg rejected them all.

If Gan Guoyang was not a time traveler, he would naturally not associate Paul Allen with the acquisition, because the acquisition negotiations are secret, and the players generally would not know about it, otherwise it would also have an impact on the mentality of the players, not to mention that Alan Len and Weinberg never entered into actual negotiations.

At the same time, Gan Guoyang also thought of the incident of encountering a skinhead in a nightclub and receiving a note from a mysterious person in a bar. Gan Guoyang connected these clues together, and finally had an idea in his mind.

"Mr. Allen, do you want to buy the Portland Trail Blazers?" Gan Guoyang suddenly said to Paul Allen who was opposite after taking a sip of coffee.

Gan Guoyang's question was so sudden that Paul Allen and Schultz did not expect it at all. They were calmly waiting for Gan Guoyang to ask questions, but they were shocked by Gan Guoyang's words.

Gan Guoyang looked at the two people who were a little surprised, and knew that he had guessed right. Although Alan and Schultz tried their best to hide the surprise in their hearts, they couldn't hide their expressions for a moment.

Now that Gan Guoyang was confident, he drank coffee with peace of mind. At this time, he glanced at a radio and asked, "Can this radio work? I want to listen to tonight's game. It seems that I I couldn’t go to see it.”

At this time, Paul Allen had returned to his original composure. He stood up and turned on the radio, and tuned to the Seattle Sports Channel. Blackburn's commentary on the game came from inside. The game had already started for a while.

At this time, Paul Allen sat down again and looked at Gan Guoyang and asked, "Are you interested?"

"Why?" Gan Guoyang asked back.

"Because you are like us."