During the days when Gan Guoyang was waiting for the finals, no time had made him feel longer than this final in 1986.

Since the Trail Blazers and the Rockets fought seven games, the first finals was scheduled on May 28th. The Trail Blazers had four days to rest and prepare, and the Celtics had been resting for almost a week.

However, these five days made Gan Guoyang feel particularly difficult. The seven battles did not make him tired. He recovered with a full ten hours of sleep.

Then the next morning, he wanted to do the same thing, woke up from his sleep, put on his sportswear, ran out with bread in his mouth, and went to the training center for training.

In Gan Guoyang's view, everything is as usual, the season's journey is not over yet, and the most important battle is coming.

But in the eyes of the Portland people, the Trail Blazers have completed their tasks this season ahead of schedule. Regardless of the finals, Gan Guoyang is already a hero of Portland.

Therefore, the journey of Gan Guoyang running to the training hall this morning was quite difficult. Along the way, he met too many enthusiastic citizens. Whether it was students riding bicycles to school, office workers driving to work, or old ladies and aunts walking to supermarkets to shop, whenever they saw Gan Guoyang, they would come forward to embrace Gan Guoyang, and some students would ask for autographs.

After all, Gan Guoyang's height and appearance make him recognize too much. A 6-foot-10 Chinese cannot hide his own.

"Come on, Gan! Give Bostonians some color to see!" The taxi drivers on the road also rolled down the window and shouted at Gan Guoyang.

The twists and turns of the journey made Gan Guoyang unable to run to the training hall in one breath. He spent nearly an hour on the way. When he arrived at the training hall, he found that at the entrance of the training hall, a group of fans had gathered early, pulling slogans supporting the Trail Blazers and Gan Guoyang, waiting for the players to arrive.

This time, Gan Guoyang rarely failed to arrive at the training hall first, but his arrival still aroused the emotions of the fans. Some fans even began to sing the song "Southern-nights" (Southern Nights) that Campbell sang for the Trail Blazers after the Trail Blazers won the championship in 1977.

The fanaticism of Portland fans was far beyond Gan Guoyang's expectations. This was not finished. After Gan Guoyang and the Trail Blazers finished their morning training at noon, the number of fans at the entrance of the training hall increased instead of decreasing, and everyone started to hold basketball parties here!

At this time, Weinberg called the training center. He heard that there were more and more fans at the entrance of the training hall, so he decided to hold a large-scale meeting in the square of the Memorial Stadium, which can be regarded as a sworn in the Blazers' upcoming expedition.

Therefore, the Trail Blazers' afternoon training was cancelled. After dinner, the players drove to the Memorial Stadium. The Trail Blazers staff also made a notice to the whole city through radio broadcasts.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Portland was also shining with sunshine, the temperature was not too low, and today was not a weekend, but there were still many enthusiastic fans gathered at the entrance of the Memorial Stadium to attend this temporary meeting.

At the meeting, Coach Ramsey and Gan Guoyang expressed their gratitude to the fans on behalf of the coaching staff and players, and then promised the fans that they would do their best to bring the championship trophy back to Portland.

Amid the singing of "Night of the South", the fans gave the Trail Blazers the biggest cheer. In two days, Portland's only concern will travel far to the East Coast.

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"The fans in Portland are so enthusiastic, but the Bostons are just as enthusiastic, but they won't cheer for us. I'm afraid that we will not have less trouble at that time."

After the rally, Gan Guoyang and Ramsey were in the same car. They wanted to go to the hospital together. Ramsey went to see his wife. Gan Guoyang decided to go to Shui Miao for physical therapy on his right arm, hoping to try to solve the problem of strain.

After the game last night, Gan Guoyang's right arm injury was further relieved. He slept for a night and went to the training hall in the morning to do some simple training, but he was unable to shoot at the moment.

"Boston's madness is famous, but we don't have to be afraid. The Lakers can win the championship in Boston, so we can also win in Boston... although it is indeed a bit difficult."

Ramsey is not a coach who likes to say discourageous words, but this year's Celtics are indeed too strong. They only lost one game in the Eastern Conference playoffs, and their edge is close to the Philadelphia 76ers in 1983. Now some Boston media and fans have believed that the Celtics will sweep the Trail Blazers 4:0, so that they will copy the 76ers' 1983 Fo, Fi, and Fo miracle (the 76ers, the number one in the Eastern Conference, was bye bye in the first round of the playoffs that year, only played three rounds)

And they will have more than 76 players in the winning game, becoming the team with the highest winning rate in the playoffs.

Gan Guoyang's concern for Ramsey can also be understood. The Celtics are indeed arrogant. Although the Trail Blazers doubled the Celtics in the regular season, the playoffs are two worlds after all, and the Finals are a new world.

The Celtics have reached the Finals for the third consecutive year, and they just suffered a shameless defeat last year. Their revenge is extremely strong. Since their number one revenge target, the Lakers, have already failed, they will naturally vent their anger on the Trail Blazers and avenge the revenge of being double-killed in the regular season.

When Gan Guoyang thought of this, he was a little worried and more excited. He couldn't wait to taste the taste of the finals.

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After receiving physical therapy at Shui Miao in the afternoon, the pain in Gan Guoyang's right arm was greatly relieved. When he took the bus home, he found that a guest had arrived at home - his agent, David Falke.

Since the start of the playoffs, Falk has rarely come to harass Gan Guoyang because Gan Guoyang has made it clear that he must concentrate on playing all business matters during the playoffs.

Now, seeing that Gan Guoyang has reached the finals, Falk must be unable to sit still. He must come to meet Gan Guoyang. He didn't even make a phone call and flew directly to Portland. Anyway, this is not the first time he has done a sudden attack like this. Now he just doesn't make arrangements for Gan Guoyang casually, and it's not surprising that he is a sudden attack on Gan Guoyang.

After meeting, Falk went straight to the point and told Gan Guoyang that his current commercial value had increased by at least five times.

"Now not only sports goods companies will ask you to advertise, sports drinks, cars, TVs, puffed foods, and even house humidifiers, which may ask you to endorse their products. This is the charm of the finals. Even if you haven't played a game now, or you will be shaved by the Celtics, it doesn't matter. The finals are different from the average playoffs."

"Hi, hey, don't say that David, before the game started, you curse us shaved our heads by the Celtics. I was not happy to hear it." Gan Guoyang shook his head and said with a smile when he heard Falk's statement.

"This is not what I'm saying, everyone says that. I think all other states in the United States will think that the Celtics will win the championship - oh no, Californians won't think so. The key to the problem is that they will win the championship in a few games, and they mostly tend to four games."

Falke is telling the truth. No matter how Portland fans rejoice in the victory of the Trail Blazers, other neutral fans will think that the Trail Blazers are not opponents of the Celtics - no matter what the perspective is.

"Well, if we can drag the game to the fifth game, even if we win, we will award the O'Brien trophy directly to us." Gan Guoyang joked with self-deprecatingly.

"Okay OK, let's talk about the main business, first of all, the advertising issue. I brought a list, you can choose the following in the offseason..." Falke took out a stack of documents from his briefcase and handed them to Gan Guoyang.

"Okay, I don't want to watch it, I leave it to you. The season is not over yet, and I don't want to be distracted by these things. I believe you will make a good choice for me." Gan Guoyang didn't go to watch it, and he didn't want to be distracted.

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"Think about how I know you, Mr. Falke. I believe in Zemikis' potential, just as you believe in mine. I will consider working with him, but I still want to say that it is not the time to leave it to you."

Although Gan Guoyang had tried his best to get rid of Falke's absolute control over him, after experiencing the police station storm, Gan Guoyang understood that Falke was still on his side, and he was indeed very capable and trustworthy, so Gan Guoyang now handed over the full power of the affairs to Falke, but he had to obtain Gan Guoyang's consent in person.

"Okay, I don't know what kind of videos you can work with, sports movies?"

"Who knows, maybe it's an animation?" Gan Guoyang said casually. He didn't know that he really collaborated with Zemikis to create an animation in the future.

Falk came and went in a hurry, and politely declined Wang Fuxi's invitation to keep him for dinner. He left Gan Guoyang's home and returned to his nest to continue working. He left Gan Guoyang alone to make experimental dishes and taste Wang Fuxi's new dishes.

"Forrest Gump, is the whole wheat bread I made delicious?"
Chapter completed!