The Golden Age of Basketball

() In the United States in June, the most important basketball event, the nba finals, also came to an end in this increasingly hot weather.

In the end, the Philadelphia 76ers still lost to their old rival Los Angeles Lakers with a total score of 2:4.

The Los Angeles Lakers won the second championship trophy in three years amidst the cheers of thousands of fans at home. Magic Johnson once again won the finals mvp by relying on his outstanding performance. This is only his third year in the NBA.

Everything came to an end in this way. Some people are frustrated and some are proud, some are happy and some are sad. This kind of drama will be staged again and again in the future, showing scenes of basketball tragedies and comedies for those who love basketball.

At this time, Gan Guoyang, as a preparatory actor, was on the difficult road of obtaining an actor qualification certificate.

He stayed in Los Angeles for nearly a week, except for watching the third, fourth, and sixth finals, he was with Wang Fuxi almost the rest of the time.

After watching his cheap apprentice surprise everyone in the slam dunk contest that day, Gan Guoyang was led by Wang Fuxi to have lunch at her favorite Chinese restaurant under Martha's surprised eyes and teasing.

Every day after that, Gan Guoyang would look for Wang Fuxi at noon and evening, and wander around Inglewood with her.

Gan Guoyang's life in the past was actually very monotonous. Reading and basketball were almost all of his life.

Although he is from the future, he has no interest in video games, because in Gan Guoyang's opinion, video games in this era are really bad.

In American high schools, many people start to fall in love early. As the amphibious star of Palo Alto High School, Gan Guoyang finds a girlfriend easily.

But on the one hand, he always felt that being in love would occupy his training time too much, and on the other hand, he had some small psychological barriers to falling in love with a girl who actually belonged to his "mother" class.

Of course, in the final analysis, it was because he hadn't met anyone he liked.

When a person meets someone he likes, all the reasons for not wanting to fall in love with him in the past will be reasonably discarded and thrown into the trash can.

Gan Guoyang didn't know if he was in love like this now, but at the very least, he felt very happy and peaceful during the week with Wang Fuxi.

When he and Wang Fuxi walked side by side on the not-so-clean and tidy streets of Inglewood, everything seemed better.

The relationship between them is also getting closer, and there are more and more things to say.

Wang Fuxi also discovered that the basketball idol in his heart also had amazing knowledge and conversation.

He has extensive reading and insight into history, geography, astronomy, music, and movies.

Especially his foresight analysis of some future trends, although Wang Fuxi half understood, confused, but always felt that Gan Guoyang knew everything and everything he said was right.

This guy Gan Guoyang is naturally exposed to the light from the future and the explosion of Internet knowledge, but he doesn't know that the reason why the girl with him always listens so earnestly to him saying things that girls are not interested in is not because Because of how right and good what he said, but because he is Gan Guoyang.

Now he is still far from understanding what the structure of a woman's brain looks like.

However, the two never crossed that line, and they didn't even hold hands, just like two friends.

Occasional friction between arms is already the limit of contact between the two.

Even so, in the hotter and hotter June, when touching Wang Fuxi's arm, Gan Guoyang could still feel a touch of smoothness and coolness, like a piece of white jade.

Every time he did this, he felt a rush of blood rushing to his heart, as if he was the one to throw the last ball at the last moment of the game.

The one-week wonderful contact is coming to an end soon. After the finals, Gan Guoyang, Gan Guohui and Chen Xing will return to San Francisco together.

During this week, Gan Guohui and Chen Xing were no strangers to Gan Guoyang disappearing in the morning and coming back after dinner. Anyway, these two guys went to the Electric City in Los Angeles to play video games every day. Go take care of big cousin.

However, the time away from Los Angeles this time is not too long, because Gan Guoyang and Qian Hui will soon go to UCLA to fill in their own materials, prepare for the admission procedures, and enter this dominant school of American college basketball.

On June 6th, the fifth day after the finals, in the southern hemisphere, the Falklands War ended on this day. < fu also declares downfall.

At this time, Gan Guoyang, who had only been home for a few days, was sitting in his cousin Qian Hui's car, driving on the California highway, heading to Los Angeles again.

A war started when Gan Guoyang entered Los Angeles, but ended when Gan Guoyang returned to Los Angeles again.

For Gan Guoyang, this period of time was a journey of his own mind, a baptism and rebirth of himself. At this time, he became more mature and stable; but for a regime, this period of time brought destruction.

Time is like this. On the way forward, you recklessly overthrow everyone. Whether you can get up depends on yourself.

Qian Hui also experienced a baptism recently, but what baptized her was not her own heart, but the huge pressure from the outside world.

The Hinckley case will start on the 21st, and she will soon go to Washington to defend the murderer who assassinated the president.

As a lawyer, no matter how heinous the criminal is or how certain the crime is, she must try her best to protect the legal rights of the criminal so that the criminal can get a fair trial and punishment.

Although in the eyes of others, the principal culprit in such a case is not worth defending at all, and he can be killed directly, so why should it take so long.

At least, from Gan Guoyang's point of view.

"Auntie, that murderer, how are you going to defend him? They took guns and went straight to kill the president. Putting our ancient China aside, that's the murder of the nine clans!" Gan Guoyang sat in "Master Qian"'s Chevrolet convertible, asked looking at the straight and empty California freeway.

"This is not ancient China. The United States is a society that emphasizes the law. Even if it is a serial murderer, there will be lawyers to defend him so that he can receive a fair and just trial." Qian Hui explained. She found that this cousin had a lot of ideas in his mind, stronger than her unlucky son.

"Oh, fairness, those who were killed or injured, the moment they lost their lives or health, there is no fairness at all." Gan Guoyang sat on the co-pilot and said boredly.

But as soon as he said this, Qian Hui didn't know how to respond, and the car returned to silence.

Gan Guoyang didn't want to talk about such a heavy topic anymore, he just thought that when he arrived in Los Angeles, he must find Wang Fuxi.

When we parted last time, he looked at the girl as if crying, although she tried to cover her eyes with her hat.

During the few days in San Francisco, I didn't contact her, because he didn't even know her home phone number. It's really annoying to not have a mobile phone in this day and age.

In this way, Qian Hui drove all the way to Los Angeles, where Gan Guoyang's soul haunted him.

Instead of going to Inglewood, though, they headed straight for a more important destination, UCLA.

The University of California, Los Angeles, referred to as UCLA, was the overlord of American college basketball in the 70s and the winner of seven consecutive championships.

They had a legendary coach, John Wooden, and they had two legendary centers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- then he was called Alcindor -- and Bill Walton.

In short, this is the holy land of American basketball. All American high school players, especially centers, hope to play here to inherit the glory of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Walton.

However, when Qian Hui drove to an intersection not far from UCLA, the car broke down.

"Oops, it seems that there is something wrong with the engine." Qian Hui drove the car and suddenly found that although the foot was on the gas pedal, the car was obviously not moving.

Finally, the speed of the car was getting slower and slower, Qian Hui had no choice but to drive him to the side of the road before the car completely lost power.

"I can only call the police and ask them to help deal with it." Gan Guoyang got out of the car, but was helpless.

He was also a little worried that he might be too tall and heavy to break the car.

"That's the only way to go. Fortunately, the school is not far away. Look, it's just ahead. Have you seen the red twin towers?" Qian Hui pointed to a red church-like building not far ahead. , there is ucla.

Gan Guoyang looked up, and there were many buildings hidden in the lush greenery.

Is UCLA there, the place where I will fight with basketball?

"It still feels so far away..." Gan Guoyang thought in his heart, not sure if it meant far away or something else.

But now, the problem came again, the phone could not be found.

In the era without mobile phones, you can only find public phone booths, but there are no phone booths nearby!

"Otherwise, leave the car here. The school is not far away anyway. We can go there first, and then call the traffic police at the school to help." Gan Guoyang suggested.

"Well, that's the only way to go." Qian Hui could only shake her head helplessly.

"Hi, do you need help?" At this moment, a rough and hoarse voice came from the side, as if passers-by saw the plight of the two and wanted to help.

"Uh...we..." Gan Guoyang was about to turn around and say something, but the owner who saw the voice was obviously stunned.

Too high.

This was the thought that popped into Gan Guoyang's mind immediately when he saw the speaker.

At this time, Gan Guoyang is already a 6-foot-10 giant, and he has always been looked up to by others when he walks on the street.

Even on the basketball court, there weren't too many taller players than him in high school games.

However, the white man in front of him needed him to look up. Gan Guoyang felt that his forehead should only reach the other's nose.

And the figure of this person is also a whole circle bigger than Gan Guoyang.

Obviously, this is a super giant with a height of about 7 feet 3.

Qian Hui was also taken aback when she saw this giant.

Gan Guoyang was already tall enough, and he felt aggrieved sitting in her car, but now there was a taller one.

It was as if she had come to the kingdom of giants.

"Hi, is there anything I can do for you?" said the giant again, slowly but sincerely.

"Our car broke down. It seems that there is something wrong with the engine. Moreover, we can't find a phone here, and no traffic police came to help." Gan Guoyang recovered and said to the other party.

"Oh, if you don't mind, I can show you what's wrong. Do you have a toolbox?" The giant offered to help see what's wrong with the car.

Qian Hui saw that there was really no good solution now, so she took out a set of tools from the trunk and handed it to the big white man.

He lifted the front cover of the car skillfully, took out the wrench and screwdriver in the toolbox, and tapped on the engine to check it.

"Can it be fixed, sir?" Gan Guoyang asked.

"Oh, there should be a problem with the carburetor of the engine. Some impurities blocked the pipe, preventing the oil mist from being sprayed into the combustion chamber, so the car couldn't move forward." The big white man quickly discovered the problem .

"Then what should we do?"

"Need to take down the carburetor and deal with it, wait for a while." As he spoke, he began to disassemble the parts on the engine.

"Oh my god, can it be repaired?" Qian Hui muttered in her heart, this Chevrolet was bought last year, it's a new model.

"You must have used unqualified fuel, which caused the carburetor to be clogged with some oil." The big white man had already removed the carburetor of the engine and began to remove the dirt inside.

"Sir, you are so tall, do you play basketball?" Gan Guoyang finally couldn't hold back his inner curiosity, and asked.

"Oh, yes, but I'm graduating this year. Well, the problem shouldn't be too big. Clean it up and put it back on again, and it will be fine." It seems that the big white man is about to solve the problem.

But Gan Guoyang is obviously more interested in the first half of his sentence.

"Are you a student of UCLA? Are you a member of the UCLA basketball team?"

"Oh, yes, but I'm just a nobody. Don't compare me with Alcindor and Bill Wharton," said the big white man, laughing.

"Okay, no problem, I'll put it on and the car will be on the road again!"

"Then will you participate in this year's NBA draft?" Gan Guoyang kept asking behind like a paparazzi.

"Oh, I don't know, maybe maybe not. To be honest, I don't have much confidence. If no team wants to draft me, then I'll go back to the gas station or the auto repair shop and be an auto worker. Look, My technique is not bad, the car should be able to start."

Qian Hui sat in the driver's seat again, turned the key to start the car, and sure enough, the engine worked normally again.

"Thank you, sir. I believe that you will be able to achieve a good draft result. Good people are rewarded with good rewards." Gan Guoyang said to this enthusiastic big guy.

"Haha, thank you, I hope so. By the way, I still like repairing cars." The big white man said humorously.

"Goodbye, I hope to see you again on the basketball court. My name is Gan, sunny.gump." Gan Guoyang got in the car and said goodbye to the big white man.

"Oh, bye, gump, my name is Mark Eaton."

Marco Eaton, a former auto repair worker, was finally selected by the Utah Jazz in the fourth round of the 1982 draft.

But he ended up becoming the leader in blocks per game in NBA history and the winner of the best defensive player twice.

In Gan Guoyang's NBA career, Eaton will become a mountain he has to climb.