(I'm really sorry today, something happened. The author's bank card that received the manuscript fee was stolen, and all the manuscript fees he got were gone... I called the bank for a long time, anyway... I'm sorry, it's late to update, there may be more typos, please forgive me.)

When Gan Guoyang left Andy's Bar, Portland had already fallen into darkness, and it was already early in the morning.

Portland was so cold at midnight, but Gan Guoyang, who was sitting in Kenny Carl's car, was hot in his heart. First, Carl's words made him feel a lot, and now he was really active. Second, he looked at Carl who was drunk driving next to him and couldn't help but tremble.

Don’t finally figure out some problems, but you ruin yourself because of an accident. This is the biggest tragedy in the world.

Fortunately, there were almost no cars on Portland Street at midnight. Although Carl drank a lot of alcohol, he was all beer. It was no problem to drive with his alcohol tolerance.

"Portland, beautiful Portland, I love this place, the fans here love the beer here even more!" While driving, Carl kept talking. He said enough tonight.

Portland is a famous beer capital, and the climate here is very suitable for brewing quality beer, so once it was traded here, Carl, who is good at liquor, fell in love with this place.

He has decided that no matter where he is traded, he will return to Portland to settle down and start his construction company after retirement.

"Gan, Portland is really a great place. Believe me, if I win a championship here... Oh my God, I can't imagine..."

"I dare not imagine...can you look ahead..."

Among all the players of the Trail Blazers, only Gan Guoyang can't drive. Everyone else, even if the water dispenser manager, has their own cars, so Gan Guoyang can only ask Carl to take him home.

It was finally safe along the way, and Carl sent Gan Guoyang home.

"Goodbye Mr. Carl, I learned a lot when talking to you." Gan Guoyang breathed a sigh of relief, got off the car and said goodbye to Carl.

In the Trail Blazers, except for coaches and staff, Gan Guoyang never calls anyone else a gentleman.

"Goodbye, Gan, do it well. I believe you will definitely achieve great things. At that time, don't forget Kenny Carl who drove you home!" Carl also emphasized, "Gou Fugui doesn't want to forget."

"No problem, Mr. Carl, the championship will have your share...it's the opposite! It's over there! It's back..."

After Gan Guoyang returned home, he lay alone in bed and carefully sorted out his exchange with Carl tonight. He decided to make some changes.

Of course, how to change it specifically cannot be achieved by having one or two ideas. It requires action in practice, and this will be a long process.

After drinking some wine, Gan Guoyang, who was a little dizzy, was lying on the bed, but he couldn't sleep.

So he turned on the TV to see if there were any basketball-related programs on the TV station at midnight.

As a person from later generations, Gan Guoyang was really dissatisfied with the main entertainment facilities of TV at that time.

Not only is the small screen, but the TV stations' programs also reveal a rural atmosphere everywhere.

Especially those advertisements, in Gan Guoyang's eyes, they are all creative ideas that cannot be more rustic, which is a thousand miles worse than CCTV-5's sports advertisements. He didn't expect that there are no advertisements for CCTV-5 now.

After turning a few channels, I finally saw a trailer about tomorrow's game on the local TV channel in Portland.

Gan Guoyang has a bad habit, which is that he never looks at his team's schedule. In his own words, he said, "maintain the mystery of his opponent to ensure his thirst for the game."

So Gan Guoyang stopped the button and saw which team the Portland Trail Blazers will play against in the next game (local channels broadcast their own team's games). Generally speaking, the TV stations are willing to broadcast more exciting games.

At that time, the NBA's television broadcasting promotion was developing rapidly, but it had not reached the point where there was a broadcast signal for every game in later generations, so only some strong confrontations would get broadcasting opportunities.

Only those most popular wars of Mars crashing into the Earth can get the opportunity to broadcast live across the United States.

"Tonight, at 19:00 Pacific Time, we will broadcast the Portland Trail Blazers' home game against the San Antonio Spurs. At that time, the audience is welcome to watch it on time..."

"Spurs? The Spurs must be very powerful, right? But who is the Spurs? There must be no Duncan... Will there be Popovich..." Hearing the name of the Spurs, Gan Guoyang subconsciously thought that this was a strong team.

Because in Gan Guoyang's impression, since he started looking at the NBA, the Spurs with Duncan have been as strong and stable as ever, and they look strong and stable forever.

So he thought the Spurs were probably a strong team in the 1980s, otherwise how could they get the opportunity to broadcast?

(PS: Don't think that the NBA stars at that time were all NBA Pepsi. When Larry Bird entered the Celtics, he couldn't even figure out how many championships Russell won.)

Just as he thought about it, Gan Guoyang slowly fell asleep. This was his rare sleep in a state of thorough relaxation.

Of course, the San Antonio Spurs are not always as strong as Gan Guoyang thought. This team, which merged from the ABA, reached its first peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

They reached the division finals in the 1979, 1982 and 1983 seasons, and were only one step away from the finals several times, but in the end they all failed.

By the mid-1980s, the beginning of this season, the Spurs were gradually entering a period of decline.

Last season, they signed the old No. 1 pick John Lucas and wanted to fight again after losing the Western Conference Finals in 1983, but they didn't even make the playoffs.

This season, Lucas returned to Houston to find the place where the dream began, and the Spurs, who were one year older, slowly grew old with the carving of time.

However, they still achieved a 50% winning rate in the previous game, barely ranked eighth in the West and on the edge.

The next day, Gan Guoyang got up early in the morning. He had been getting up early for many years and had formed a stubborn biological clock. He would wake up on time no matter how late he slept.

Moreover, Gan Guoyang did not feel any discomfort, which showed his strong body, and that little alcohol was not a problem at all.

As usual, he ran to the training center. Gan Guoyang thought he would be the first one again, but he didn't expect that when he arrived in the center, he actually heard the sound of catching a ball.

"Is it Clyde? He actually came earlier than me?" Gan Guoyang thought in confusion. Generally speaking, he was the first to arrive, and the second to arrive was Drexler.

But when Gan Guoyang changed his clothes and came to the training ground, he found that it was Mitchell Sampson who was training on the court.

In Gan Guoyang's impression, Mitchell Sampson's training is like a white-collar worker going to and from get off work, not coming sooner or leaving for a second.

He always arrives on time at the assembly time and leaves after a little strength training.

He was the same in the game, winning 2010 per game, and then his work seemed to be over.

He rarely scores out against the sky when other players perform poorly, and rarely performs particularly poorly, only getting a few points or a few boards.

He is always so stable.

The last game was one of his few poor performances. Although the Trail Blazers won the game, he only scored 6 points and 4 rebounds, and Larry Nance, who was against the team, scored a game-high 26 points.

This is not the first time he has suffered a loss in front of Nance.

More importantly, he lost to Gan Guoyang in the training one-on-one day before the game. In addition, his misperforming performance in the game undoubtedly made Sampson, who had a strong self-esteem, feel completely lost his face.

So, before dawn today, Sampson came to the training center and was sweating profusely on the court.

It has been a long time since he came to the Trail Blazers.

In 1978, the Trail Blazers were very lucky to get the No. 1 pick. They just won the NBA championship last season, and they reached the top of the team last season and ranked first in the regular season league. If it weren't for Walton's injury, they would have been likely to have successfully defended their title.

The Trail Blazers won Sampson from the University of Minnesota with the No. 1 pick, because in the Trail Blazers' view, this 6-foot-10 player has the function of 6-foot-11 Walton and can replace Walton during Walton's injury.

At the same time, he has the ability to be 6-9 Morris Lucas (the second hero of the championship and the team's scoring champion), and can act as a scorer in the power forward position after Walton returns.

This looks really a perfect choice, and it can be done without wishing. Walton ended up having a breakup with the Trail Blazers due to injury, and applied for a deal, and finally went to the Clippers.

Sampson did not show Walton's amazing strength. Perhaps he was better than Morris Lucas, but he could not lead the Trail Blazers to regain their glory.

As the Trail Blazers' lineup was gradually disbanded, Sampson eventually stayed and became the team's last veteran except Ramsey.

His ambitions when he first entered the league have been almost wiped out by cruel competitive games. All he wants is to enjoy basketball, enjoy his position among the Trail Blazers, and enjoy the fertile life he brought in to the professional league.

However, the arrival of Gan Guoyang disrupted Sampson's "calm" basketball life.

This guy is always fighting for the first place and is competitive in everything. Even if he goes to take a shower after the game, this guy has to strive to be the first to wash and finish the first one.

Although he did not target Sampson, his competitiveness made Sampson feel a crisis.

This yellow-skinned boy seemed to challenge him all the time, not carrying his bag, fighting for the ball rights on the court, shouting and commanding everyone during training. In Sampson's impression, this guy was not like a Chinese at all - he heard that all Chinese were very well-behaved.

He felt that one day he would be kicked off by Gan Guoyang from the position of "nominal boss" of the Trail Blazers - this Trail Blazers do not seem to have a boss.

But Sampson didn't expect that this day would come so quickly, and Gan Guoyang would defeat him directly in training with a one-on-one challenge.

Although this one-on-one challenge is nothing in the adult world, in the arena, such one-on-one challenge is by no means meaningless.

Sampson was sure that others could not think that Gan Guoyang became the boss just because they lost the one-on-one challenge, but Sampson's "majesty and status" were greatly damaged.

So, he was using his actions to show that he could come very early and that he could be the first to start practicing on the training ground.

Gan Guoyang had already guessed what point he had in his heart when his clothes were soaked in sweat.

If Gan Guoyang hadn't talked to Carl last night, he would definitely think that Sampson was fighting back at him. Gan Guoyang would definitely invite Sampson to fight one-on-one again and then defeat him again.

But now Gan Guoyang knows that Sampson is not going to fight back against Gan Guoyang, but more importantly, he is trying to prove to everyone that he is also a hard-working and talented player, and that the respect others respect him is worth it.

"Good morning, Mitchell." Gan Guoyang shouted to Sampson.

Sampson, who was shooting, was obviously stunned. He had already noticed that Gan Guoyang was coming, but he did not expect that Gan Guoyang would actually say hello to him.

"Good morning, Gan." Sampson responded faintly.

The two said these words to each other early in the morning, but this was a huge improvement, because this was the first time Gan Guoyang greeted Sampson in morning training after coming to the Trail Blazers.

This is a good start. It is impossible to expect Gan Guoyang to change his attitude immediately and call him brothers and Sampson. Gan Guoyang is also a very proud person.

At least the two people have returned to their previous state without affecting each other.

Of course, other players did not see this little episode. They arrived one after another behind Gan Guoyang. They were a little surprised after seeing Sampson, but they immediately understood something.

After Ramsey arrived at the stadium, the training officially began. Ramsey did some targeted training for the next game.

"Run, run quickly! I'll let you run quickly! You have to pass the half as quickly as the defender! Have you ever played for a few games, your legs are weak?" Ramsey shouted.

Today he did not practice any special offensive or defensive tactics, and he was just yelling "Run!Run!Run!" during training.

"Old man, I know how to shout for running quickly. If the coach only needs to shout like this, I can be a coach." Gan Guoyang, who was driven like a donkey, slandered in his heart, but he still gritted his teeth and participated in the fast offensive practice on the field.

He knew that Ramsey had certainly made sense for practicing like this.

"Very good, Gan, I hope you will have as much energy in tomorrow's game as today. Remember, when facing Gilmore tomorrow, you must run more and not run to the low post casually, where you will spend more energy." Ramsey said to Gan Guoyang who stopped.

"Gilmore? Who is Gilmore?" Gan Guoyang looked puzzled.

"Oh my God, I can know the basic situation of all players in a week's NBA, and you don't even know Gilmore. I really don't know what your brain is for!"

"I just want to defeat other people. As for who the others are, I don't care." Gan Guoyang brags that he won't pay tax anyway.

"In the afternoon, I'll take you to take a good look at his videos so that you can have a basic understanding so that you can be mentally prepared. OK, keep running, don't stop!"
Chapter completed!