The Golden Age of Basketball

On April 1989, 4, the Trail Blazers ushered in their last game of the regular season at home, against the Sacramento Kings at the Memorial Stadium. In the last few games of the regular season, due to the impact of the recording incident, the team's morale It fell to the lowest point, and even lost three games in a row, and finally lost the chance to hit the best record in history and win the first 23 wins in history.

However, now they still have a chance to achieve the best record in history. As long as they win the last game, the Blazers will end the regular season with a score of 69 wins and 13 losses, equal to the 1972 Lakers who shared the best record in history.

Three hours before the start of the game, Gan Guoyang arrived at the Memorial Gymnasium early in the car, and he found that a banner had been hung high outside the gymnasium, which read "the-best-team-we-ever-have" (we have The best team ever), before Portland fans also expected the Trail Blazers to create the best record in NBA history, and now they can only tie the best record, but in the eyes of Portlanders, this team The Blazers are undoubtedly the best Blazers in history, even better than the 1977 and 1978 teams.

Gan Guoyang looked at the banner, squeezed his fists, and thought of Paul Allen's insidiousness. If he hadn't made such a move, the Blazers would have continued to triumph, and winning 70 wins would not be a problem at all.

Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of Gan Guoyang, the Trail Blazers team gradually united again. When Gan Guoyang arrived at the training hall yesterday morning, he found that the other players had basically arrived. The Blazers also completed the most complete and efficient training in the past week The training and the players' condition are quite good. In any case, the game will continue.

The aftermath of the recording incident has not completely dissipated so far. The NBA has officially imposed a penalty decision on the Trail Blazers, issuing a huge fine of 50 US dollars to Weinberg, which is rare in the history of the NBA. Knowing that Gan Guoyang’s salary was 210 million U.S. dollars per year at that time, in the era of future superstars with annual salaries of tens of millions of dollars, the fines usually would be tens of thousands of U.S. dollars.

Because of his carelessness, Weinberg not only paid a heavy financial loss, but also suffered damage to his reputation. After all, he was a World War II veteran in the past. He once fought for his country on the European battlefield, but now he is labeled as a racist. The label of a discriminator. Since the incident broke out, Weinberg has never appeared in the Memorial Stadium to watch the game. Many people speculate that it is not far from Weinberg selling the team. If the Blazers can win a championship this year , will undoubtedly allow Weinberg to sell for a good price.

But in this way, the Blazers will also become the first team in history to be sold after winning the championship.

In the locker room, Gan Guoyang changed his jersey and came to the court early for warm-up training. At this time, the entire gymnasium was almost empty, only some staff members were inside.

No matter what kind of difficulties and experiences ahead, Gan Guoyang will never relax in basketball. Gan Guoyang is also bound to win this game and win the best record in history, so he began to spectate in the gymnasium. Warm up with a run on the aisle.

When the other Blazers players arrived at the stadium one after another, and the reporters followed along, Gan Guoyang had already adjusted his state to the best. This is why Gan Guoyang always has a fiery touch in many games, because he is always the most fully prepared .

As night fell, the arena became more and more lively. Advertisements were posted in many places to promote the Blazers' upcoming playoffs. Tickets for the first game of the playoffs have already been sold. It won't take long for sure. Will be sold out.

Gan Guoyang stood in the center of the field, looking at the same lively field, the depression and irritability of the past few days were finally swept away, and he could put aside all kinds of affairs outside the field for the time being, devote himself to the basketball game, and experience the joy and joy of victory. The sadness of failure.

The players of the Trail Blazers are also full of energy. Gan Guoyang's scolding made everyone sober up a lot. Discrimination is discrimination, and the game will continue to be played. No matter who the team owner is, the victory and honor are the players themselves. Yes, no matter how unhappy you are, these things still need to be spelled out clearly.

On the opposite side, the Sacramento Kings have undoubtedly become villains again. They were the ones who blocked the Trail Blazers from creating the best record before. Now in the last game, the Kings still have a chance to stop the Trail Blazers. Anyway, they are hopeless in the playoffs. The following games were purely for honor, and it can be said that they gave it a go.

The good news for the Trail Blazers in this game is that Danny Angie, an important backcourt substitute for the Kings, missed the final battle due to injury. Angie's three-pointer in the last game made the Blazers suffer. However, Gan Guoyang also admires Anji, a smart guard. For the Blazers, if they can supplement players like Anji, it will greatly make up for the shortcomings of the lineup.

Without Angie and only relying on Kenny Smith, the Kings' outside offense was obviously not enough. Facing the high-speed and high-intensity offensive and defensive rhythm of the Blazers, the Kings seemed to be dragged down in just two quarters.

But in the second half, a white guard shooter stood up on the King's bench, Dan Negro (later the head coach of the Clippers). He does not shoot three-pointers, but shoots two-pointers in one step from the three-point line. In this game, he is extremely accurate. He can almost shoot from 20 feet away.

Negro's outburst made the Blazers almost overturned by the king, but Gan Guoyang, the king of the third quarter, could not let a Negro disrupt the situation of the Blazers. There is no solution, as long as you get the ball in the low post, you will either foul or watch Gan Guoyang score.

At the same time, Adelman also personally asked Jerome Cosey to help defend Negro, not to let him shoot so easily, and then Negro would not have a good chance to attack.

When Gan Guoyang grabbed an offensive rebound in an offense and succeeded in hitting a three-pointer at the same time, the score was stretched to 11 points. Gan Guoyang stood on the free throw line and at the same time the audience began to shout "mvp", and the sound was louder than ever. A wave resounded through the audience.

This season's regular season mvp candidate is basically a certainty. Although Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan have performed very well and are at the historical level, Gan Guoyang has played an epic season. When Gan Guoyang made the free throw, he Already scored 40 points, this is Gan Guoyang's No.30 40-point performance this season, and his average rebounds have also reached 18.6, which is another player who averaged 1973 rebounds per game after Elvin Hayes in the 1974-18 season A player who can grab more than [-] rebounds.

More importantly, for the NBA league, Stern needs to award the mvp to Gan Guoyang. Because of the aftermath of the recording incident, many Asian fans are still very dissatisfied with the NBA. This kind of performance has not won the mvp, and the Asians in the United States are really going to rebel. Therefore, everyone speculates that Gan Guoyang is bound to win the mvp this time.

When the game score was fixed at 127:110, the Trail Blazers won the last game of the regular season and achieved the best record in history of 69 wins and 13 losses. Arm, what he needs now is to bring a championship to the Portlanders.

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"Forrest Gump, are you back? I'm sorry, I had an operation today, so I couldn't watch your game." Back home at night, Wang Fuxi apologized to Gan Guoyang. Today, Gan Guoyang was unable to play in the last regular game due to work. go to.

"It doesn't matter, there are still playoffs, as long as you can come to the finals, I can win the championship, and then we will get married."

"Okay, it's a deal... Oh yes, Gan, I watched TV just now, and the news said that something happened in mainland China. One of your leaders passed away, and then many students commemorated him in the square. More and more..."