Muscatin, located more than 200 kilometers east of Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, on the northwest bank of the Mississippi River, is an agricultural town.

When Gan Guoyang arrived at Muscatine by the Stockton car, it was already dark, and this small city by the river was bathed in the afterglow of the sunset.

Since the agricultural economy is the main source here and there are not many industrial production equipment, the sun down the mountain shines on the red side of the horizon, which still looks thick and bright.

In Gan Guoyang's impression, in later generations, only when he was a child, he could see such brilliant sunset in the orphanage. The older he grew, the more turbid the sky became.

Muscatin is more called a town than a city. The entire city has only about 20,000 people, which is not much different from the population of a university in Gan Guoyang in later generations.

As soon as he entered the city, Stockton drove left and right and soon arrived at the destination tonight, at the home of Stockton's teammate Bob Hansen.

Gan Guoyang didn't have a deep impression of Bob Hansen, he only knew that this guy was the Jazz's substitute shooting guard, and entered the NBA one year earlier than Stockton.

When the Trail Blazers were fighting with the Jazz, the white scoreback didn't play much, but the active defense caused Drexler a little trouble.

Of course, if history is not changed by Gan Guoyang, then Bob Hansen will play an important role in the 1992 championship series where the Bulls defeated the Trail Blazers. Gan Guoyang, who did not know much about history, naturally knew nothing.

Bob Hansen is now just a marginal figure in the team, a white player with an average talent selected in the third round draft.

However, Stockton and Hansen have a very good relationship. According to Stockton, he learned a lot from Hansen, especially his experience in defense.

After arriving at Hansen's home, Gan Guoyang and Stockton were warmly entertained by Hansen's family. Hansen's father was a farmer of Muscatin. His farm was inherited from his ancestors. If Hansen retires and does not become a player in the future, he can go back to Muscatin to raise pigs.

Hansen's mother works in a large agricultural company, Monsanto Agricultural Technology, so the Hansen family is a standard middle class.

After coming to the United States, Gan Guoyang gradually discovered that in the Midwest region of the United States, the people in many places are still very simple and conservative, especially in the agricultural states in the central region. Most of the people here are hospitality, which is in sharp contrast to the indifference of citizens of some big cities.

After using a sumptuous dinner mainly made of corn and pork, Gan Guoyang, Stockton and Hansen began to watch the finals around the TV.

As Jazz and Trail Blazers, the three players were crushed by the Lakers one after another in the playoffs. As usual, they should share the same hatred, but the three players are not consistent in supporting the team.

Hansen and Stockton naturally stood on the side of the Celtics. They were swept by the Lakers in the semi-finals. Of course, they hope that the Celtics can avenge them in the finals.

However, Gan Guoyang felt that the Lakers would win this game and eventually win the series. The reason was very simple. Chris said that the Lakers would win.

Tonight's game is the fifth game of the finals. The two sides had a 2:2 draw before, so this game became the key battle of Tianwang Mountain. Whoever can win the game will win the championship point, which will be a huge psychological advantage for the winner.

Unlike other series in the playoffs, the finals' system changed from 2-2-1-1-1 to 2-3-2. The Celtics' general manager and Cardinal Auerbach made this reform proposal.

Auerbach's reason is that the team is already tired until the finals, and the two teams in the east and west are relatively far apart. If the continuous exchange between home and away games is a great loss to the players' physical strength.

Old Mr. Auerbach has been racking his brains for the victory of the Celtics all his life. As long as it is beneficial to the Celtics, Auerbach will do his best to win an advantage for the Celtics.

But this time Auerbach miscalculated and changed to a 2-3-2 match system, forcing the Celtics to play the extremely critical battle of the King of Kings at the Lakers' home court. If Auerbach knew that this would be the case, he would definitely regret proposing to change the match system.

Sure enough, the Celtics were completely suppressed by the Lakers as soon as the fifth game finals started. After a little quiet in the fourth game, Jabbar once again burst out with huge energy. Parish had no way to stop the 38-year-old Jabbar's hook.

In the first half, the Lakers established a 13-point lead.

"Bird is playing too badly. He can't compare with the Magicians. If this continues, the Celtics will be over." During the halftime, Hansen commented on the performance of representative players of both sides.

Indeed, Larry Bird seemed to have fallen into a slump after the first game, and his performance in several consecutive games was not satisfactory. In comparison, Magic Johnson, who led the Lakers to beat the Jazz and the Trail Blazers in the Western Conference Semi-Finals and the Western Conference Finals, gave assists again and again. After the slump in the first game, he sent 13 consecutive times, 16 and 12 assists in the next three games, and was in an amazing state.

"Hansen, I think you must defend the Magician in the future and let him know the power of the 'Alaska Killer'." Stockton joked at Hansen for a rare moment.

Because Bob Hansen's full name is Robert Louis Hansen II, when Hansen participated in the draft in 1983, the Iowa murderer, "Robert Hansen", who had the same name as Hansen, was arrested in Alaska and made headlines in major American media, so Hansen got such a nickname.

Although Stockton's words were a joke, in the future when the Jazz fought against the Lakers, Hansen really became a vanguard against the magician's magic.

As the game deepened, the situation became increasingly close to the side of Gan Guoyang's prediction. Bird had never been able to find his state. Without the performance of Bird, the tactical core, the Celtics really couldn't catch up with the Lakers even if they took off their pants.

In the whole game, only 7 players of the Celtics got the chance to play, and four started for more than 40 minutes, among which Dennis Johnson did not play in a minute.

This is enough to show that the Celtics are already in short supply in military use. They are exhausted and can no longer run away from the Lakers who rotate normally and are full of energy. They lost this extremely critical battle at the King of Heavenly Mountain 111:120, and have already lagged behind the Lakers 2:3 in the finals.

After winning this game, the Lakers are in sight. As long as they win the game in Boston Garden Plaza the day after tomorrow, they will not only win the NBA championship, but also wash away the shame of 8 consecutive losses against the Celtics in the history of the Lakers Finals.

After the competition, Hansen took out beer from the refrigerator and iced watermelon for the three to enjoy. One of Muscatine's specialties is watermelon, and according to Hansen, this watermelon is a new variety cultivated by Monsanto.

Eating iced watermelon and beer on a quiet summer night was a great enjoyment. Gan Guoyang felt extremely comfortable here. He couldn't help but think of Wang Fuxi, who was about to take a holiday, thinking that he would definitely buy a house with her in such a small town as a place for summer vacation in the future.

"Gan, listen to my mother that a Chinese delegation will visit their company tomorrow, but they seem to lack an interpreter. If possible, maybe Gan you can be a translator on both sides." Hansen suddenly said to Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang was very curious after hearing this. He had been in the United States for many years. Although there were many Chinese around him, very few people came directly from the other side of the ocean.

Although Gan Guoyang does not belong to this era, he also wants to know how China is now, whether it is developing well, and how the people's lives are.

"The company will definitely hire translators, and you are a star in the NBA. Don't they know you in China? If you go, those inspection teams may ask you for signatures." Stockton said.

Gan Guoyang shook his head after hearing Stockton's words and said, "Now there are not many people in China with TV stations, and TV stations will not broadcast NBA games. If I play in the NBA, there may be a few people who know me through newspapers, but there will definitely not be many. I guess most people won't even know about Magicians, Bird."

At that time, the NBA was still a sports game that Americans played themselves. Although their championship was known as the "World-Championship", their influence in the international market was still very small at that time, and China's potential huge market still needs to be developed.

Later, through Hansen's mother, Gan Guoyang learned more detailed information about the expedition team.

This expedition team is not a national-level senior expedition team, but an agricultural technology expedition team from Zhengding County, Hebei Province. However, it is said that this inspection of the United States still attaches great importance to it.

Originally, this expedition team was about to come in May, but for some reason, the inspection time was delayed by a month, so it was still coming to the United States, which happened to be a collision with Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang has always had a bad impression of this kind of overseas inspection team. In his impression, most of the so-called study and inspection officials went abroad in the name of the follow-up inspection. What can they learn?

However, after all, he was from the mainland of the motherland. Gan Guoyang missed his friends from his hometown in the United States, so he agreed to Hansen's mother's request. Tomorrow, several people took a bus to the headquarters of Monsanto Company in southeastern Muscatine to meet the agricultural inspection team from Zhengding County, Hebei Province.

The next day, Gan Guoyang got up early one morning. He was used to getting up early every morning. Hansen's father drove his big pickup truck, carrying the family and Gan Guoyang, to his destination Monsanto Company.

Because the seats in the car are really crowded for a big man like Gan Guoyang, after all, Hansen is also a man of about 1.9 meters, so Gan Guoyang did not sit in his seat, but stood in the car behind the pickup truck, wearing a pair of sunglasses and riding in the wilderness of Iowa in the wind.

When the group drove to the headquarters of Monsanto Company, Gan Guoyang saw some yellow skin wearing white shirts walking outside the Monsanto production base to take photos. It seemed that they had come early in the morning.

Gan Guoyang quickly attracted the attention of the inspection team and Monsanto accompanying staff. After all, this guy was too conspicuous. He was standing in the truck in the truck, wearing a pair of sunglasses, and most importantly, he seemed to have yellow skin.

When Gan Guoyang jumped out of the pickup truck, the people from the Chinese inspection team were obviously frightened by Gan Guoyang's huge figure.

"This guy is too tall, are you a Chinese working in the company?" someone said in the inspection team.

At this time, Hansen's mother also got out of the car and said a few words to the person Monsanto was responsible for meeting. The man glanced at Gan Guoyang in surprise, then walked to Gan Guoyang and shook hands cordially with him.

"Hello, Mr. Gan, I'm also a basketball fan. I didn't expect you to come here. I really didn't recognize you just now. I'm Tubante."

"Hello Mr. Tubante, can I ask these people from my hometown?" Gan Guoyang asked.

"Oh, of course, I'll introduce you to you... They are from Zheng-Ding-HeBei, the leader of their inspection team and the mayor of Zheng-Ding... Mr. XI." Tubante said to a middle-aged man with a round face and a smiling face.

"Mayor?" Gan Guoyang knew that Zhengding should be a county, and the so-called mayor should be their county party secretary.
Chapter completed!