Chapter 442: Losing the Record

On April 18, 1989, the Portland Trail Blazers traveled to Sacramento for an away game against the Kings, the Trail Blazers' penultimate game of the season, and for them who already had a 68-10 record, one more win would tie the Los Angeles Lakers' record of 69 wins in a single season set in 1972, and hopefully hit an unprecedented 70 wins.

Then, the Trail Blazers, who were caught in the racist storm of the boss, suffered Waterloo in Sacramento, and in the middle of the season, it was the Sacramento Kings who began to implement targeted tactics against the Trail Blazers, and achieved good results, and now in the face of the Trail Blazers with internal problems, the Kings have no mercy to become the Trail Blazers' record setter.

Originally, Boston's veteran Danny Ainge became a killer, he scored 32 points in the game, and shot a fatal three-pointer at a critical moment, his three-pointers were 5 of 7, and the entire Kings' three-point shooting was 9 of 13, such a high shooting rate, to be honest, even if the Trail Blazers did not have internal problems, it was not so easy to win.

In the face of the outburst King, the Trail Blazers' side of Cauchy, Williams and other players were obviously emotional, and some of them did not work the court, Porter and Drexler looked quite hesitant, they wanted to play well, but it seemed that playing well at this time was a mistake, and they had to do something to resist Weinberg.

As the protagonist of the incident, he worked hard to carry the team's offense and defense, so that the team always bit the score with the king, and in the fourth quarter, some of the king's fans began to applaud Gan Guoyang, and the king's inside line was like paper paste in front of Gan Guoyang.

However, the two fists are hard to beat the four hands, Gan Guoyang, who scored 39 points and 16 rebounds in the whole game, still failed to stop the king who broke out of the whole team, although in the fourth quarter, players like Drexler and Porter couldn't stand Gan Guoyang's hard work, and they also started to play with a correct attitude, but they fell too far behind, and the king's feeling was that they couldn't prevent it, and finally the Trailblazers lost to the king by two points away from home, and they were still one game away from the record.

After the game, Adelman was furious in the locker room, scolding the players for not working hard, and said that Cauchy and others had nothing to say, but Adelman also knew in his heart that the boss said such a thing, it was impossible for the players to have no ideas in their hearts, and not everyone was Gan Guoyang, even Gan Guoyang, a few days after the recording time broke out, he was always silent and did not accept any media interviews, even Wu Zhiwen did not have any revelations, and everyone did not know what medicine was sold in Gan Guoyang's gourd.

However, the answer was soon revealed, the day after the game between the Kings and the Trail Blazers, on April 19, five days after the recording incident broke out, Weinberg made a live apology to the whole United States on ESPN TV, and accepted a live interview with the host, giving some explanations about the ins and outs of the matter, and Gan Guoyang also arrived at ESPN's scene, accepted Weinberg's apology, and hugged the two cordially on TV, indicating that they had released their previous suspicions - although the two had no previous suspicions.

Unlike CBS's interview with Isaiah Thomas in 1987, this apology can be said to have been carefully prepared, every detail and every issue has been carefully scrutinized and considered, and even the TV station has written the script to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Gan Guoyang and Weinberg made a scene together and gave the public an explanation, so that Gan Guoyang not only regained face for the race of his own complexion, but also gave Weinberg a step to go down, so that it would not be like in 1987, when Bird left the field, Thomas and the home team were embarrassed and speechless, and finally, Gan Guoyang brought ESPN a hand, giving ESPN a big opportunity to show his face.

As for Sterling, this guy is actually the real racist, and his conversation with Weinberg is also a topic starter, Weinberg is just a loader, but just like Rodman and Thomas in 1987, the words are said by Rodman, the views are Rodman's, Thomas just echoed a sentence, but he is the boss of the team, he will be in charge, and he will bear the storm of public opinion behind, and no one cares who Rodman is.

And this time, Weinberg and Gan Guoyang are the protagonists, a bad team like the Clippers, Sterling discriminates against no one at all, so he was able to escape, but he can hide from the first day of the first year and can't hide from the fifteenth, it is really possible for people to step into the same river at the same time, and the punishment for Sterling's big mouth has not yet come.

And the real hidden protagonist of the incident, Paul Allen, the driving force behind the scenes, was in his Seattle mansion, and after watching the apology live broadcast, he kept repeating his evaluation of Gan Guoyang in his heart, "You are really an excellent capitalist." ”

An excellent capitalist should transform unfavorable factors into favorable factors, resolve contradictions, and value harmony, which is incompatible with the character of competitive players "either you die or I live", the two traits are mixed in Gan Guoyang's body, and even Paul Allen can't guess him.

Of course, Paul Allen will not know that there are two souls hidden in Gan Guoyang's body, although the original Gan Guoyang has been replaced, but his memory and personality have not been completely replaced, and the two personalities are mixed together to form the seemingly contradictory personality traits of Gan Guoyang now.

The turmoil has not completely subsided here, and there are two other problems, one is the slackness within the Trail Blazers, which reached its peak on August 21, when the Trail Blazers lost to the Seattle SuperSonics on the 20th, and the Trail Blazers immediately returned to Portland for their penultimate game of the season, home to the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Trail Blazers are undefeated against the Lakers this season, something that no team in the West has been able to do in the past decade, and if they win again, they will become the first Western team to sweep the Lakers in a single season in the 80s.

But the Lakers obviously won't give the Trail Blazers such a chance, and the Trail Blazers are not ready, the players have slowly recovered their attitude after a few days, and the training has been re-invested, but they have lost a lot of morale, and this kind of thing does too much damage to the team's morale.

As a result, on their home court, the Portland Trail Blazers lost to the Lakers 110-124, and all the tactics and strategies used to deal with the Lakers failed before, Magic Johnson scored a triple-double on their heads, and Pat Riley left Portland with the Lakers proudly, winning this victory means that it is impossible for the Trail Blazers to break the winning record set by the Lakers in 1972!

After the game, Gan Guoyang was rarely furious, unlike usual, usually Gan Guoyang was always the last to go back to the locker room, and this time he was the first to return to the locker room, and when he entered the door, he kicked the iron door on his locker cabinet, and the huge sound made all the players behind Gan Guoyang shrug their hair.

"It's the worst team I've ever seen in the world, the worst! Fucking worse than Palo Alto East High School because there's no team that would choose to lose in the face of such a record-setting opportunity! Not to mention that the opposite side is the creator of the record! It's the most shame I've ever had in my life, on our home court, missing out on 70 wins, and then being on an equal footing with the Los Angeles Lakers at most, that's what you want? Look at how you've been in the last few games, how bad has it been? What the fuck are you trying to prove? Prove that you are great, prove that you say you can't touch it, and if anyone dares to scold you, you will sit on the ground and ignore him? What the fuck is this team! What team? Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! ”

Gan Guoyang was emotional, and said Fuck three times in a row, and the whole locker room was almost overturned by him, and when he stopped scolding, the whole locker room could be heard quietly falling down, several young players who didn't play hard lowered their heads and sat there biting their fingers, and the team's big brother Jones stepped forward and patted Gan Guoyang's shoulder to express his apology.

In fact, in the past few days, no one's pressure is greater than Gan Guoyang, he is in the whirlpool of the storm off the field, a large number of media continue to ask, many fans are also asking whether Gan Guoyang is leaving the Trailblazers, Gan Guoyang withstood everything and continued to play steadily on the field, but other players who had nothing to do started a strike.

"I'm sorry, Gan." Cauchy was straightforward, he was the first to apologize to Gan Guoyang, and then, Williams, Drexler, Porter and others apologized to Gan Guoyang.

"Tomorrow, at six o'clock, I'll be at the gym and I want everyone to be there, we're going to start preparing for the playoffs!"