For Gan Guoyang, the All-Star Game on February 9 should be the happiest game he played this season.

The game was held at 7 p.m. Before the game started, Stern arranged all the All-Star players to the best barbecue restaurant in Dallas, Bryan Barbecue, for a rich Texas barbecue meal. Like last time, all married players brought their families and gathered together.

This time, Wang Fuxi also followed Gan Guoyang to Dallas and made a fortune as Gan Guoyang's fiancée. As a female fan, she was quite excited. After all, she had dinner with so many stars who had only seen on TV and stands and their families in the past. She didn't dare to think about it before.

However, Wang Fuxi, wearing an evening dress, was indeed very beautiful, no worse than the stars' spouses at all, which also added enough confidence to her. She behaved appropriately at the banquet and gave Gan Guoyang a lot of face.

At the game point, Gan Guoyang and others went to the Western Team's locker room. Since the Western Team was considered home games this time, they were able to change clothes in the home team's locker room.

Among the 12 players in the Western Conference All-Stars, Gan Guoyang is the youngest player just like last year. The rookies in the Western Conference this year are not good, and no one has entered the All-Star lineup.

In comparison, the Eastern Conference team has a new face - Patrick Ewing. Unfortunately, Ewing suffered an injury before the All-Star Game, which was not particularly serious. However, in order to be on the safe side, the Knicks still banned Ewing from playing games and could only sit on the bench and be an audience member.

Ewing was originally a taciturn guy. After the start of the new season, the New York media, who has always been tricky and difficult to deal with, found that this new No. 1 pick is like a stone in the toilet, smelly and hard, and cannot open his mouth at all. This may be the usual tradition of NBA center players. From Russell to Jabbar, from Jabbar to Moses Malone, from Moses Malone to Walton, from Walton to Olajuwon, these giants are all arrogant and remote masters. If the media wants to have a good relationship with them, it is harder for the Magician to not play girls.

Ewing undoubtedly inherited this glorious tradition, but compared with Ewing, Gan Guoyang is not like this. Although Gan Guoyang does not like the media and paparazzi very much, Gan Guoyang will use another method to deal with those cunning vampires of writing.

In the interview before the game, facing some reporters' tricky questions, Gan Guoyang cleverly used "Chinese" to answer. You should know that since Gan Guoyang stayed in the United States for a long time, his English was no different from that of ordinary Americans when he entered the NBA, so the team did not need to be equipped with an English translation at all.

At that time, the NBA did not open up the Chinese market, and there were no professional Chinese translation talents among journalists or NBA staff. Gan Guoyang's straightforward Mandarin was stunned by the reporters' speech, and he didn't know how to respond.

In an instant, the reporters felt that the interview could not be carried out. Even Gan Guoyang could use a few words like Moses Malone to use the accent of Virginia in the countryside, but he really couldn't understand a single sentence in Chinese.

The key is that Gan Guoyang is also serious. Every question is answered very well in Chinese, and his expression is also very serious. He also communicates with the reporters who ask questions from time to time with his eyes, which makes the reporter feel very embarrassed.

Especially when Gan Guoyang was interviewed by a reporter from CBS TV, CBS reporters were treated the same way. This interview was also posted on TV by CBS TV, and basketball fans across the United States saw it and heard it.

Some fans accused Gan Guoyang of his behavior, believing that he was disrespectful to reporters and audiences and fans, but more people were interested in "What did Gan Guoyang say". At that time, there was no Internet or subtitle group, and there were not many people in the United States who knew Chinese. Apart from waiting for the official translation of the TV station, others could only ask the Chinese fans around them.

This also sparked a small Chinese craze among the fans. Although it faded very quickly, people's focus changed after the All-Star ended. However, this behavior of Gan Guoyang also won the praise of Chinese organizations across the United States. It is believed that Gan Guoyang's interviews in Chinese greatly improved the presence of Chinese in American society and enhanced the cultural identity of Chinese people. Gan Guoyang was also given the title of "Light of Chinese".

Gan Guoyang really didn't expect this. The only purpose of his doing this was to not want to answer those boring questions and deal with annoying reporters, but he was unwilling to get into evil with the media, so he was a little clever.

When the game was about to begin and everyone was warming up on the court, no reporters came up to harass Gan Guoyang, and the reporters were more willing to interview Magicians or Dr. J.

So Gan Guoyang had enough time and began to have a hook competition with Jabbar on the court.

The two met in the summer of 1982 and became direct competitors after entering the NBA, but they have always maintained a good relationship. Tian Gou himself has always been the target of Gan Guoyang's learning and catching up. Jabbar doesn't care about Gan Guoyang replacing his starting center position this season. He has been in the league for 17 years, and except for the victory, Jabbar has long been clear about everything.

The two started to fight against each other from the basket. Whoever scored a goal could move to a farther position until the three-point line.

So before the game, the audience and other players enjoyed a wonderful hook fight. The two of them were one and one, and the previous few goals were hit in one shot, without any of them. When they reached a position of about 17 feet, which was outside the three-second zone, Gan Guoyang was the first to miss the accuracy, while Kareem was still stable and hit steadily.

But Gan Guoyang came from behind because Jabbar missed three consecutive hooks outside the three-point line, while Gan Guoyang scored two goals in a row and also came outside the three-point line.

Then outside the three-point line, Gan Guoyang adjusted his breathing, and under the gaze of the audience, he had a very long hook at 45 degrees, and the ball hit the board and entered the basket!

The entire reunion gymnasium burst into warm cheers, and Gan Guoyang, who won the hook battle, also hugged Jabbar warmly, as if he had completed a heritage between the two greatest hook centers.

No one would have thought that after these two people, Tiangou's technique would disappear from the NBA.

But the cheers received this time were also the most cheers that Gan Guoyang received tonight. When the All-Star Game was officially played, Gan Guoyang obviously did not become the focus of the whole audience, and he did not have much interest in becoming the focus. Like last year, Gan Guoyang's goal is to have his own share in all technical statistics.

Among all the technical statistics, Gan Guoyang did not expect that the first task to complete the task would be a foul.

After the opening, the Western Conference All-Stars scored first. Magic Johnson passed the ball with a high throw outside the three-point line. Last season's All-Star MVP Ralph Sampson jumped high and caught the ball with both hands and dunked, opening the curtain for the All-Star Competition.

Subsequently, Eastern Conference All-Star starting point guard Isia Thomas took the ball and rushed straight to the basket from the middle. His dazzling dribble under his crotch was very rare in the NBA that year and was often criticized by some academics as useless, but his dribble in the All-Star game was undoubtedly full of viewing.

His breakthrough was as sharp and fast as his dribble, and Gan Guoyang habitually stuck it on and blocked it. As a result, the referee's whistle sounded "beeping" and the referee judged Gan Guoyang to make a defensive foul.

In the All-Star Game, the referee basically has the decoration, just a little punishment is enough, and the real performance has to be handed over to the players. Gan Guoyang looked at the referee who was blowing the whistle and found that he was an old acquaintance, the famous bald referee Joe Crawford!

At this time, Crawford was not as famous as he later. After all, he was still a new referee at that time. He entered the NBA as a referee in 1977. This year was his eighth season. He was also the vice referee in this game. The referee was the more experienced old referee Jack Maiden.

Gan Guoyang still "remembers" about the famous incidents such as Joe Crawford, who blew up Duncan on the bench and laughed, blew up four technical fouls in 10 minutes, and Haslem throwing braces at him, even though these things have not happened yet.

Crawford's qualifications are not old enough now. As a young referee, he is quite restrained on the court, not as strong as he would have control over the game later.

There is nothing wrong with this call from the perspective of rules. Gan Guoyang did make a foul, but it was not obvious. It can be hyped or not.

Gan Guoyang didn't expect that his first technical statistics would be a foul. Looking at Crawford's already shining big bald head, he thought to tease the referee in his heart.

Soon, the Eastern Conference All-Stars re-served. Thomas received the ball and passed it to Dr. J. Irving received the ball and jumped near the free throw line. He missed the iron with a "bang". Irving was just practicing his skills at the beginning.

Rebound King Gan Guoyang took the backcourt rebound, but he ignored the Magician's reaching out to ask for the ball, but started dribbling all the way through the half. Anyway, this is an All-Star Game, and no one minds Gan Guoyang.

At this time, Crawford also began to run from the sideline to the other side. Gan Guoyang looked at Crawford's short and fat back and suddenly dribbled towards him.

Generally speaking, the referees run outside the sideline, but Crawford doesn't care much and runs along the sideline on the field. After all, there are few players dribbling to the sideline near the midfield.

But Gan Guoyang rushed to the sideline in a diagonal manner. When he was about to hit Crawford, he turned around with the ball, "passed" Crawford, and then dribbled forward and passed the ball back to the Magician.

Crawford only felt a gust of wind blowing by his side, and a shadow flashed over, and then he saw Gan Guoyang running in front of him. He didn't know what was going on.

But the fans at the scene had already laughed. At that time, the players were not very entertaining, and most of them were more rigorous and old-fashioned. This was the first time that fans saw the scene like Gan Guoyang who was interviewed in Chinese before the game and turned around to the referee during the game.
Chapter completed!