After enduring three days and two nights of harassment at the Boston hotel, the Trail Blazers can finally challenge the Celtics at Boston Garden Plaza on the 27th, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.

When packing up your things and heading to the Garden Square, Gan Guoyang found in the car that a large number of fans had already flowed around the Garden Square, some driving cars, some riding motorcycles, some walking, and some taking public transportation.

"It's only been past five o'clock now, why are there so many people?" Gan Guoyang sat on the team bus and looked at the huge crowd of fans like a market.

So far, Gan Guoyang has also followed the team to play games in many cities, and fans in each city have their own characteristics.

For example, Lakers fans behave in a civilized manner, supplemented by watching football and mainly socializing. When Gan Guoyang was in high school, he went to the Great Western Forum Arena to watch football. He felt that many fans were not at all concerned about the game in the first three quarters of the game, but were busy chatting and spanking with people around him.

Although the Great Western Forum Hall is almost full of games, the atmosphere at home is not so strong.

In comparison, the Trail Blazers' home court and Indiana's home court are more lively or noisy, which may also be related to the design structure of the stadium.

Texas fans are relatively casual and often come late to watch football. Gan Guoyang played several away games in Texas. At the beginning of the first quarter, his seat was often half empty.

Seattle fans should be the ones who watch football more punctually, and Portland fans are the same. This may be related to the climate relationship between the north and the south.

Gan Guoyang hates the most, the fans in Detroit. This car city has a fierce and domineering smell of motor oil. He still remembers the swear words that Detroit fans gushed out after he was sent out for punching Ranbill.

Now, Gan Guoyang looks at the Boston fans wearing green clothes as if green wheat waves gather from all directions of the city, and he wonders what the fans here will look like.

Anyway, judging from the experiences of the Trail Blazers in Boston in the past few days, these fans will not give the Trail Blazers a good color.

"Boston fans are almost the most terrifying thing in the NBA, but don't worry, play the game well, there is no stadium that cannot be captured in the NBA." Mitchell Sampson seemed to see that Gan Guoyang was a little nervous and comforted him in the player channel.

"Yeah." Gan Guoyang nodded. He was not afraid. It was just the first time he played against a team like the Celtics. It was inevitable when he was nervous.

"Okay, let's go and see the away locker room in Boston first. I hope they can fix that damn radiator this time!" Sampson seemed to think of some bad memories and said with a frown.

It was not until he entered the away locker room that Gan Guoyang understood what Sampson said meant.

In the NBA arena, it is normal for home team locker rooms and away team locker rooms to be treated differently.

The home team's locker room is often spacious, with complete facilities, and all kinds of essentials. Some wealthy bosses also decorate the home team's locker room in a very luxurious way.

The visiting team's locker room is much more miserable. Not to mention the small space, many equipment are missing, let alone decoration, it is just ordinary.

Gan Guoyang remembers that in the Portland Memorial Stadium Trail Blazers' locker room, there was the latest water bath relaxation tank and a large massage chair. In the visiting team locker rooms in other stadiums, there was no such thing, and the cabinets for clothes were also very small.

But in general, as a professional league, the visiting team locker rooms in various stadiums can still meet the players' basic needs. However, this is the first time Gan Guoyang has seen such a dilapidated visiting team locker room like Boston Garden Plaza.

Needless to say, the space is small, except for the cabinet for clothes, there are a few stools, a tactical board, and a few small shower rooms, there is nothing else.

Moreover, as soon as I entered the locker room door, Gan Guoyang felt a sense of coldness. It was January. The temperature in Boston, located on the North Atlantic coast, was below zero. It was slightly better in the stadium because there was heating, but it was even colder in the locker room than outside the locker room.

"Damn it, why do their heating break down every winter? Next time they play in Portland, they must turn off the heater or air conditioning in the visiting team's locker room!" Sampson must have enjoyed this treatment last year, but this year has not improved.

"This is Boston. We are going to play against the Celtics. These tests are not a test. The real challenge has not begun yet. Everyone should change their clothes quickly and warm up on the court. The temperature in the court should be slightly better." Ramsey reminds everyone to change their clothes quickly and leave this ghost place.

Gan Guoyang has also seen the tip of the iceberg of the terrible part of the Boston Devils' home court. If there is no heating in winter and no air conditioning in summer, this is simply causing the visiting players to freeze or heat to death.

In this case, if the visiting team players are not prepared enough, their combat effectiveness will be weakened halfway before the game begins.

All the players quickly changed their jerseys and sweatshirts outside, formed a circle in the player passage and shouted the team's slogans, and then entered the court first.

"Get-out-of-our-house! (Get out of our home court!)" The Trail Blazers just entered the court and heard the roar from Boston fans in the audience.

Nearly two hours before the start of the game, but there were already many fans sitting in the audience.

"The fans in the Eastern Conference are always so uneducated." Sampson said without even looking at the fans.

Since the ease of relationship with Sampson, Gan Guoyang's relationship with him has also become better and better. Gan Guoyang discovered that Sampson is a very unique guy, and he always looks like he is not a bird for anyone at any time.

Although he plays on the court like clocking in at work, he also has his own ideas about basketball and the NBA, and some of his ideas are not necessarily correct, but they are always interesting.

For example, he especially likes to criticize the Eastern teams, believing that the Eastern teams are rough and violent, and their fans are not cultured or literate. For Boston fans, he collectively calls them "the bed bugs of the New England region."

"Drop a basket and show me, monkey!" When the Trail Blazers player warmed up on the court, Gan Guoyang successfully made a layup and found that a fan behind the basket shouted at him, calling him Monkey.

Gan Guoyang knew that the Boston area was the most serious racial discrimination in the United States, and many black players were unwilling to come to Boston to play. Even Bill Russell, the Lord of the Rings in Celtic history, did not like Boston. After retiring, he lived in Louisiana for many years.

Although Gan Guoyang is not a black man, he is indeed the only yellow man in the NBA. It is normal to attract provocations from certain racial elements like this.

Gan Guoyang is too lazy to care about these fans now, and he can't figure out who is rude among the crowd behind the basket.

After more than an hour, more and more spectators entered the stadium, and the venue became more and more troubled.

At this time, a huge cheer suddenly burst out from the entire stadium. The cheer was obviously not for the Trail Blazers, but for the home team that had just entered the court, the Boston Celtics.

"Don't be nervous, the fans here are just country bumpkins who have never seen the world. They still have to shout when they see the home team players entering the court. If the US president comes, they will not be overturned." Sampson still looked disdainful and did not look back at the Celtics entering the court.

In fact, even if the US president comes, the audience will probably not have such cheers. The American people are much more enthusiastic about sports than politics.

Gan Guoyang still looked back and immediately saw Larry Bird, a "big bird" wearing a white background and green sportswear, among the Celtics players wearing a conspicuous blonde hair and a No. 33-sided body.

Gan Guoyang had heard of various legendary deeds about Bird in later generations. He was always curious that such a white player who seemed to have mediocre physical fitness and no particular highlight would have such great energy to create an era in the entire NBA.

However, Bird did not look at Gan Guoyang, but practiced shooting on the court. In this regard, he was not like the Magician at all.

The Lakers played several games with the Trail Blazers. Every time they warmed up, Johnson would run to the midfield to say hello to Gan Guoyang. Although Johnson never showed mercy in the game, he liked Gan Guoyang very much off the court, and Gan Guoyang also had a good impression of the Magician.

And Johnson likes to laugh very much. His smile can infect anyone, and Bird has been cold since entering the field, just like the cold weather in Boston.

At about seven o'clock, the entire Boston Garden Stadium was finally filled with noise, and the atmosphere of the entire venue seemed to have entered the last two minutes of the game, but in fact the game had not started yet.

Players from both sides returned to the bench and prepared to start the entry ceremony.

"The last one, from Indiana West Patton, graduated from Indiana State University, Larry Bird!"

When the DJ on the scene introduced Bird to the entry, the atmosphere reached its first climax. Because there was no cheerleader at Boston's home court, the fans naturally could not focus on the cheerleader beauty, so they had to release all their enthusiasm and energy to cheer for the Boston heroes.

After DJ introduced the players from both sides, the audience sang the American national anthem together, and Gan Guoyang continued to stand there pretending to listen carefully.

Afterwards, the starters of both sides took off their sportswear and stood on the unique and old wooden floor in the Garden Square, preparing to start the battle between the top teams in the East and West.
Chapter completed!