After three days and two nights of harassment at a Boston hotel, the Trail Blazers could finally challenge the Celtics on the 27th, at 7 p.m. ET, in Boston Garden Square.

When packing up his things and driving to the Garden Square, Gan Guoyang found in the car that a large number of fans had already poured around the Garden Square, some driving cars, some riding motorcycles, some walking, and some taking public transportation.

"It's only five o'clock now, why are there so many people?" Gan Guoyang sat on the team bus and watched the huge crowd of fans, like rushing to the market.

So far, Gan Guoyang has also followed the team to play in many cities, and the fans in each city have their own characteristics.

For example, Lakers fans behave more civilized, supplemented by watching games, and are mainly communicative. When Gan Guoyang went to the Great Western Forum Arena to watch the game in high school, he felt that many fans in the first three quarters of the game were not on the game at all, but were busy chatting and farting with the people around him.

Although the Great Western Forum Arena was almost full, the atmosphere at home was not so strong.

In contrast, the home of the Trail Blazers, Indiana's home stadium is much more lively, or much more noisy, which may also have something to do with the design and structure of the court.

Fans in Texas are relatively casual and often late for the game, and Gan Guoyang has played several away games in Texas, and at the beginning of the first quarter, the seats are often half empty.

Seattle fans should be more punctual when watching the game, and the same is true for Portland fans, which may have something to do with the climate relationship between the north and the south.

Gan Guoyang should hate Detroit fans the most, this car city from the players to the fans, there is a fierce and domineering smell of engine oil, he still remembers the Detroit fans after he was sent off for punching Ranbier, Detroit fans gushed out of the court.

Now, Gan Guoyang looks at the Boston fans dressed in green like green wheat waves gathering from all directions of the city, wondering what the fans here will be like.

Anyway, judging from what happened to the Trail Blazers in Boston in the past few days, these fans will not give the Trail Blazers a good color.

"Boston fans are pretty much the scariest in the NBA, but don't worry, play well, there's no stadium in the NBA that can't be conquered." Mitchell Sampson seemed to see that Gan Guoyang was a little nervous and comforted him in the tunnel.

"Hmm." Gan Guoyang? Guoyang nodded, he wasn't afraid, but it was the first time to play against a team like Celtic, or away, and it was inevitable when he was nervous. 、

"Alright, let's go see the away locker room in Boston first, and hopefully they can fix the damn radiator this time!" Sampson said with a frown, as if he had some bad memories in mind.

It wasn't until he entered the away locker room that Gan Guoyang understood what Sampson meant.

In the NBA's arena, it's normal for the home team locker room to be treated differently from the away team's locker room.

The home team's dressing room is often spacious and well-equipped, with all kinds of necessities, and some wealthy owners even decorate the home team's dressing room very luxuriously.

The away team's locker room is much more miserable, not to mention the small space, a lot of equipment is missing, not to mention the decoration or something, it is ordinary.

Gan Guoyang remembers that in the locker room of the Trailblazers at the Portland Memorial Coliseum, there was the latest water bath relaxation tank and a large massage chair, while in the visiting team locker room in other stadiums, there were none of these, and the cabinets for clothes were also very small.

But in general, as a professional league, the away team locker rooms in various stadiums can still meet the basic needs of the players, but it is the first time Gan Guoyang has seen such a dilapidated away team locker room as in Boston Garden Square.

Needless to say, there is nothing but a cabinet for clothes, a few stools, a tactical board, and a few small shower rooms.

Moreover, as soon as he entered the door of the locker room, Gan Guoyang felt a cold air, it was January, the temperature in Boston on the North Atlantic coast was below freezing, and it was slightly better in the stadium due to the heating, but it was colder in the locker room than outside the locker room.

"Damn, why do their heating break down every winter! The next time they play in Portland, be sure to turn off the heating or cooling in the away team's locker room! "Sampson certainly enjoyed that treatment last year, and this year it hasn't changed.

"This is Boston, we're going to play against the Celtics, these tests are not tests, the real challenge hasn't started yet, let's change our clothes quickly, go to the court to warm up, the temperature in the stadium should be a little better." Ramsey reminds everyone to hurry up and change their clothes and get out of this hellish place.

Gan Guoyang can also be regarded as the tip of the iceberg of the terrible thing about the Boston Devils' home stadium, there is no heating in winter, and there is no air conditioning in summer, which is simply making the away team players freeze to death or heat to death.

In this case, if the away team's players are not well prepared, the combat effectiveness will be cut in half before the game even starts.

All the players quickly changed into their jerseys and sweatshirts, shouted the team's slogan in a circle in the players' tunnel, and entered the stadium first.

“get-out-of-our-house！ (Get out of our home turf!) No sooner had the Trail Blazers entered the arena than they heard roars from Boston fans in the audience.

There were still almost two hours before the start of the game, but there were already many fans sitting in the audience.

"The fans in the East are always so uneducated." Sampson didn't even look at the fans, and said in his mouth.

Since the relationship with Sampson eased, Gan Guoyang's relationship with him has also been getting better and better, Gan Guoyang found that Sampson is a guy with a lot of personality, and he always looks like no one is a bird at any time.

Although he plays like clocking in to work, he also has his own ideas about basketball and the NBA, and some of his ideas are always funny, although not necessarily correct.

For example, he especially likes to criticize Eastern teams, saying that Eastern teams are rough and violent, and their fans are uneducated and uneducated, and for Boston fans, he collectively calls them "New England bugs." ”

"Show me a dunk, monkey!" When the Trail Blazers players were warming up on the court, Gan Guoyang made a successful layup and found that there was a fan behind the basket yelling at him and calling him a monkey.

Gan Guoyang knows that the Boston area is the most racist place in the United States, and many black players are reluctant to come to Boston to play, even Bill Russell, the Lord of the Rings in Celtic history, does not like this place in Boston. After retiring from the army, he lived in Louisiana for many years.

Although Gan Guoyang is not black, he is indeed the only yellow person in the entire NBA, so it is normal to provoke certain racial elements.

Gan Guoyang is too lazy to bother with these fans now, and he can't figure out who is speaking disrespectfully among the large number of people behind the hoop.

After more than an hour, more and more spectators entered the stadium, and the stadium became more and more noisy.

At this time, the entire arena suddenly erupted in a huge cheer, which was obviously not for the Trail Blazers, but for the home team that had just entered, the Boston Celtics.

"Don't be nervous, the fans here are hillbillies who have never seen the world, and they have to shout when they see the home team players entering the stadium, so if the president of the United States comes, he will have to overturn the roof of the stadium." Sampson still looked disdainful and didn't look back at the Celtics who came in.

In fact, even if the president of the United States comes, the audience is expected to have such cheers, and the American people are much more enthusiastic about sports than politics.

Gan Guoyang still looked back, and immediately saw Larry Bird, the "big bird" with conspicuous blonde hair and No. 33 on his back, among the Celtics players wearing a white-on-white and green-edged tracksuit.

Gan Guoyang has heard all kinds of similar legends about Bird in later generations, and he has always been curious that such a white player who seems to have mediocre physical fitness and nothing particularly outstanding will have such great energy and create an era in the entire NBA.

However, Bird did not look at Gan Guoyang's side, but practiced shooting on his own on the court, which is not at all like the magician.

The Lakers and the Trail Blazers have played a few games, and every time they warm up, Johnson would run to the halfcourt to greet Gan. Although Johnson never showed mercy in the game, he liked Gan Guoyang very much off the court, and Gan Guoyang also had a good impression of magic.

And Johnson loves to laugh so much, his smile can contag anyone, and Bird has been cold since he came in, just like the cold weather in Boston.

Towards seven o'clock, the entire Boston Garden arena was finally filled with noise, and the atmosphere of the whole stadium seemed to enter the last two minutes of the game, but in fact, the game had not even started.

Players from both sides returned to the bench and prepared to begin the entrance ceremony.

"The last one, from West Barton, Indiana, graduated from Indiana State University, Larry ~ Bird!"

When the DJ on the scene introduced Bird to enter, the atmosphere of the scene reached the first **, because there is no cheerleader at the home stadium in Boston, so the fans naturally couldn't pay attention to the beauty of the cheerleader, so they had to release all their enthusiasm and energy to cheer for the heroes of Boston.

After DJ introduced the players from both sides, the audience played and sang the American national anthem together, and Gan Guoyang continued to stand there and pretend to listen carefully.

Afterwards, the starters of both sides took off their jerseys and stood on the unique and old parquet floor of the Garden Square to prepare for the battle between the top teams in the East and West.

“elcome-to-boston。 (Welcome to Boston.) As Gan Guoyang stood in the center circle, he heard a welcome speech from Larry Bird.