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

The game was played at 7 p.m., and before the game began, Stern arranged for all the All-Stars to have a rich Texas barbecue dinner at the best barbecue restaurant in Dallas, Brian's Rotisserie, and just like last time, all the players who were married brought their families together.

This time, Wang Fuxi also followed Gan Guoyang to Dallas, and attended the dinner as Gan Guoyang's fiancée, as a female fan, she was still very excited, after all, she had dinner with so many stars and their families who had only seen them on TV and in the stands in the past, and she couldn't think of it before.

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

At the point of the game, Gan Guoyang and others went to the locker room of the western team, and since the western team was playing at home this time, they were able to change clothes in the locker room of the home team.

Among the 12 All-Stars in the West, Gan Guoyang is still the youngest player like last year, and this year's rookies in the West are not good, and no one has entered the All-Star lineup.

In comparison, the Eastern team has a new face - Patrick Ewing, but unfortunately Ewing suffered an injury before the All-Star break, which was not particularly serious, but the Knicks still banned Ewing from playing on the court for the sake of insurance, and could only sit on the bench as a spectator.

Ewing was originally a taciturn guy, after the start of the new season, the New York media, which has always been tricky and difficult, found that this new champion is like a stone in a latrine, smelly and hard, and can't pry his mouth at all, which may be the consistent tradition of NBA center players, from Russell to Abdul-Jabbar, from Abdul-Jabbar to Moses Malone, from Moses Malone to Wharton, from Wharton to Olajuwon, these giants are all arrogant and withdrawn masters, and it is more difficult for the media to have a good relationship with them than to let Magic not bubble girls.

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

In the pre-game interview, in the face of some reporters' tricky questions, Gan Guoyang wittily used "Chinese" to answer, you must know that because Gan Guoyang has been in the United States for a very long time, his English has long been the same as ordinary Americans when he enters the NBA, so there is no need for English translators in the team.

At that time, the NBA did not open up the Chinese market, and there were no professional Chinese translators among reporters or NBA staff, and Gan Guoyang spoke Mandarin with a straight and round language, and he didn't know how to answer what those reporters said.

Instantly, those reporters felt that this interview could not be carried out, and Gan Guoyang could even use a few words in a rural Virginia accent like Moses Malone, but he really couldn't understand a word in Chinese.

The key Gan Guoyang is also serious, each question is answered very well in Chinese, his expression is also very serious, and he also communicates with the reporter who asks the question with his eyes from time to time, which makes the reporter feel very embarrassed.

Especially when Gan Guoyang was interviewed by CBS TV reporters, CBS reporters also received the same treatment, and this interview was also broadcast on TV by CBS TV, and basketball fans across the United States saw and heard it.

Some fans criticized Gan Guoyang's behavior, believing that he was disrespectful to reporters, viewers, and fans, but more people's interest was on "what Gan Guoyang said", at that time, there was no Internet, no subtitle group, and there were not many people in the United States who knew Chinese.

This also set off a small Chinese language craze among fans, although it subsided very quickly, and people's focus shifted after the All-Star ended, but Gan Guoyang's behavior also won praise from Chinese organizations in the United States, believing that Gan Guoyang's interview in Chinese greatly improved the sense of Chinese presence in American society and enhanced the cultural identity of Chinese, and Gan Guoyang was also given the title of "Light of the Chinese".

Gan Guoyang really didn't expect this, his only purpose in doing this was just to not want to answer those boring questions and deal with annoying reporters, but he also didn't want to have a bad relationship with the media, so he played a little clever.

By the time the game was about to start and everyone was warming up on the field, there were no reporters running up to harass Gan Guoyang, and reporters were still more willing to interview Magician or Dr. J.

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

The two have known each other since the summer of 1982, and after entering the NBA, they have become direct competitors, but they have always maintained a good relationship, and Tiangou himself has always been the object of Gan Guoyang's learning and catching up, and Abdul-Jabbar has not cared about Gan Guoyang replacing his starting center position this season, and has been in the league for 17 years, except for the victory, Abdul-Jabbar has long seen everything.

The two start to play each other from under the basket, and whoever scores a ball can switch to a farther position, all the way to the three-point line.

So before the game, the audience and other players enjoyed a wonderful hook battle, the two of you and me, the first few balls were all one-shot, without a basket, to the position of about 17 feet, that is, outside the three-second zone, where the horns were located, Gan Guoyang took the lead in inaccuracy, and Abdul-Jabbar was still stable and hit steadily.

But Gan Guoyang came from behind, because Abdul-Jabbar missed three consecutive hooks outside the three-point line, and Gan Guoyang hit two consecutive shots and also came to the three-point line.

Then outside the three-point line, Gan Guoyang adjusted his breathing, and under the gaze of the audience, he made a super big hook at a position of 45 degrees, and the ball hit the board into the basket!

The entire reunion stadium erupted in enthusiastic cheers, and Gan Guoyang, who won the hook fight, also hugged Jabbar warmly, as if completing a kind of inheritance between the two greatest hook forwards.

No one would have thought that after these two people, the technology of Tiangou would disappear from the NBA arena.

But the cheers received this time are also the most cheers that Gan Guoyang greeted tonight, when it came to the official All-Star game, Gan Guoyang obviously did not become the focus of the audience, and he did not have much interest in becoming the focus, as last year, Gan Guoyang's goal is to have his share of all technical statistics.

And among all the technical statistics, Gan Guoyang didn't expect that the first thing to complete the task was a foul.

The Western All-Stars took the lead in scoring after the opening game, Magic Johnson made a high throw pass from beyond the three-point line for the first shot, and last season's All-Star MVP Ralph Sampson jumped high and caught the ball with both hands to kick off the All-Star Game.

Subsequently, Isiah Thomas, the starting point guard of the Eastern Conference All-Stars, held the ball from the middle and went straight to the basket, his dazzling crotch dribbling was very rare in the NBA at the time, and was often criticized by some academics as useless, but his dribbling in the All-Star Game was undoubtedly full of spectacle.

His breakthrough was as sharp and swift as his dribbling, and Gan Guoyang habitually stuck a delay, but the referee's whistle "beeped", and the referee awarded Gan Guoyang a defensive foul.

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

At this time, Crawford was not as famous as he was later, after all, he was still a rookie referee at that time, he entered the NBA in 1977 as a referee, and this year is his eighth season, and he is also the assistant referee in this game, and the referee is the more experienced veteran referee Jack Maiden.

Gan Guoyang still "remembers" famous incidents such as Joe Crawford blowing a technical foul on Duncan because he was sitting on the bench laughing, blowing four technical fouls in 10 minutes, and Haslem throwing braces at him, although none of these things have happened.

Crawford is not old enough to be a young referee on the field, not as controlled as he was later.

There is no problem with blowing the penalty this time from the perspective of rules, Gan Guoyang did foul, but it is not obvious, it can be blown or not.

Gan Guoyang didn't expect his first technical statistic to be a foul, and then looked at Crawford's already shiny big bald head, and thought about teasing and teasing this referee.

Soon, the Eastern Conference All-Stars re-served, Thomas received the ball and passed to Dr. J Irving, Irving received the ball near the free throw line and made a jumper, and Irving only opened the practice of his hands.

The rebounding king Gan Guoyang picked up the backcourt rebound, but he ignored the magic's reach for the ball, and instead began to dribble all the way through the halfcourt, anyway, this is the All-Star Game, and no one minds Gan Guoyang like this.

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.

Normally, referees run outside the touchline, but Crawford didn't pay much attention to it and ran close to the touchline in the field, after all, there are still very few players dribbling to the touchline near midfield.

But Gan Guoyang rushed diagonally to the sideline like this, and then when he was about to hit Crawford, he turned around with a beautiful spinning top on the spot, "passed" Crawford, and then dribbled forward and passed the ball back to the magician.

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

But the fans at the scene have laughed, at that time the players were not very entertaining, most of the players were more rigorous and old-fashioned, like Gan Guoyang was interviewed in Chinese before the game, and the scene of turning around the referee during the game was really the first time for the fans to see.

"Regardless of the outcome of the game, I think the MVP of this All-Star Game should be given to Gan Guoyang because of his entertainment." CBS commentator Stockton said.