Chapter 186: Stay the course
The 1985 All-Star Game will be played at the Dome in Indianapolis.
The NBA All-Star Game began in 1950, when the NBA had just been in production for four years, but it was already starting to lose money.
In order to make up for the loss of regular season games and increase the popularity and appeal of the league, the NBA decided to select the best players from the East and West Divisions to play a matchup in the middle of the season.
This idea is not unique to the NBA, in fact, the MLB, an even older baseball league, has long been organizing star games in the middle of the season.
The first All-Star Game was held in the old Boston Garden Square, and as the event gradually became popular and loved by fans, the Star Smash Bros. began to be held in various NBA cities in turn.
But before 1985, the NBA was up and down, and by the 70s, it was even worse, and by the early 80s, there was even a situation where the NBA Finals were not broadcast live on TV!
Correspondingly, as an all-star game that reflects the popularity and popularity of the entire league, it is becoming less and less attractive, and even the stars themselves do not like to participate in such boring star gatherings.
That all changed when Stern took over, and in 1984, the NBA All-Star Game introduced a slam dunk contest that injected a whole new dimension and energy into the All-Star Game.
In the 1985 season, which was the full season in charge of the NBA, the NBA All-Star Game also ushered in a new life, although it is still composed of two parts: the slam dunk contest and the All-Star game, but in many ways it is very different from the previous All-Star Game.
The first difference Gan Guoyang experienced was the endless publicity about the All-Star Game in recent days.
After Gan Guoyang was officially elected as the All-Star backup center, from February 8, all kinds of publicity about the All-Star Game have been flooding Gan Guoyang's side.
Newspapers, television, magazines, street banners, every way imaginable advertising, you can see the NBA All-Star Game.
Gan Guoyang was not idle, and Nike seized the opportunity to take Gan Guoyang to the studio to shoot a bunch of advertising photos and videos to warm up for the All-Star Game promotion of his sneaker "Skyscraper".
Later, Gan Guoyang was joined by Van Dewig and Drexler, who was going to Indianapolis on Feb. 9 to participate in the dunk contest, where the February 10 All-Star Game will be played.
Of course, in addition to the two of them, they were accompanied by assistant trainers from both teams, as well as the head coach of the Western Conference All-Star team, Jack Ramsay.
Ramsey was able to become the head coach of the Western All-Star Game this season, Gan Guoyang naturally contributed a lot, from another period of history, if there was no Gan Guoyang, the Trail Blazers' record would not be the current 34-16, then Ramsey certainly can't be the head coach of the Star team - although the All-Star head coach is simply up to play.
But Gan Guoyang still made Ramsey break out in a cold sweat, because Gan Guoyang actually said in the game against the Knicks that he didn't want to participate in the All-Star, and Ramsey's brain didn't react at that time.
And after the game, Gan Guoyang didn't give Ramsey any chance to ask, and ran away early, which not only made Ramsey very angry, but also made him wonder how Gan Guoyang could suddenly look like this.
Fortunately, in the evening, Gan Guoyang still called Ramsey, apologized to Ramsey, explained the situation, and said that he was willing to participate in the All-Star Game, but because he was too nervous, his behavior was a little abnormal.
Although this explanation is a bit far-fetched, it is barely acceptable, as long as Gan Guoyang is willing to participate in the All-Star Game, come over and have a fun, it will be pulled down when it is over, anyway, in the eyes of an old coach like Ramsay, participating in the All-Star Game is a waste of life.
In contrast, for Drexler, an All-Star fledgling, this All-Star trip to represent the glory of NBA players is especially valuable, even if he only participated in the slam dunk contest in the past, so he was sitting on the plane and nagging all the way.
"Gan, what do you think I should use in a dunk position? What kind of use of? Do you jump from the free throw line? Or a 180-degree rotation in the air? I don't know what kind of tricks Jordan will use. "The biggest thing Drexler was worried about along the way was how he should dunk in the slam dunk contest.
"This is the hundredth time you've asked me Clyde, and I'll tell you, seven hundred and twenty degrees in the air plus a big windmill with a crotch change, and I promise you'll get the first place. Of course, you'd better do another two-handed dunk from the three-point line, and I guarantee that the championship trophy of the slam dunk contest will be called the 'Drexler Cup', and then your actions will be imitated by countless players in the future, and your legendary deeds will be widely praised by fans. Gan Guoyang couldn't stand Drexler's nagging and began to joke about him.
"Don't be so willing...... You're giving me an idea, I don't want to lose to Jordan again. "In Drexler's heart, Jordan has always been his biggest rival.
When Gan Guoyang saw Drexler's appearance, he wanted to tell him the dunk tricks of some slam dunk champions in the future, such as letting him put a little panties on his head to be Batman - the bat looked like a glider.
However, Gan Guoyang thought that if Drexler won the championship of the slam dunk contest, would it have an impact on history, and finally affect him?
Thinking of this question, Gan Guoyang felt that his head was about to blow up.
This is simply an unsolvable question, no one knows how history should go, and no one knows what impact a small change will have on history.
For Gan Guoyang, although he has traveled through time and space, Chris's deeds tell him that he, a person who violates the rules of time, is in an unpredictable crisis, and the complexity of the changes in historical events has long exceeded his comprehension.
Although Gan Guoyang doesn't know enough about the history of the NBA, judging from the recording left by Chris, the NBA history he said about after the death of "Gan Guoyang" is different from the history that Gan Guoyang knew in later generations!
Gan Guoyang remembered that the Trail Blazers had entered the finals twice after 1977 and had not won the championship, but Chris said that the Trail Blazers won the championship in 90, so there was no Gan Guoyang.
At the same time, Gan Guoyang also knew that the Lakers should have had a consecutive championship in the late eighties, but it did not appear in Chris's narrative.
However, since 1991, the history of the NBA seems to be back on the "right track", Jordan's Bulls have won three consecutive championships, the Rockets have won two consecutive championships, and Jordan's Bulls have won three consecutive championships, but I don't know if their opponents are still those teams.
Chris seemed to be in a hurry, leaving only a recording and disappearing, and he, a blind person, didn't know how he walked and where he went, Gan Guoyang didn't know at all.
The experience of these two days is like a nightmare for Gan Guoyang, everything originated from his impulse to drive home, but he didn't expect to escape death later, and in the end it turned out to be such a situation.
"Could it be that I should follow Chris's words in the future, either retire and not play basketball and become an ordinary person, or I will go with the trend and watch these teams win championships and not compete with them to protect myself?" Gan Guoyang fell into a deep conflict, making him give up competing for the championship and watching others win the championship, which was more uncomfortable than letting him die.
For him, basketball is no longer a game, a five-for-five gadget, but his career, an inseparable part of his life.
And to win and win the NBA championship will be his eternal pursuit on the road of life.
"Hey, Gan? Sweet? What are you thinking? If you can't figure out how to dunk, forget it, it's normal to not be able to think of it with your dunk level. Drexler looked at Gan Guoyang in a daze, and began to stimulate Gan Guoyang with his clumsy agitation method.
"Hmph, I'm afraid that you can't do the dunk tricks I said, you must know that you are a glider, not a helicopter." Gan Guoyang said disdainfully.
"Of course I can't do the 720 degrees of air rotation plus the big windmill under the crotch that you said, I want those movements that can be achieved and can be done by normal players." In Drexler's mouth, he has become a "normal player" with a beastly physique.
Gan Guoyang thought about it, and didn't care how normal he was as a "normal player", he decided to help Drexler.
"Death is death, if there is any accident, it depends on my life! Since it didn't kill me that night, I don't think I could die! I'll do what I have to do! Win the championship, win the MVP, win the scoring king and rebounding king, I want to get the honor worthy of my strength! ”
Gan Guoyang gritted his teeth and came up fiercely, he knew that there were some things, anyway, he should not be able to hide if he wanted to, in this case, he also stepped into the self-assertion and continued to walk on the road of basketball.
Of course, Gan Guoyang didn't know that after he came to this time and space, he didn't just change history, on the contrary, a lot of history was started by him and promoted by him, which may be one of the reasons why he has been able to be active in the world all the time.
As for why he died in another time and space, and now he survived, only God knows.
"Okay Clyde, I can teach you some tricks, and when the time comes, I'll let you participate in the slam dunk contest happily, and even if you don't win the championship, you will go down in history, of course, you have to play well."
"No problem, as long as you don't let me do a 720-degree air rotation plus a big windmill with a crotch change hands......"
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"Hey Kiki, I think you should practice your three-point shot well and prepare for the future."