On May 30, Gan Guoyang came to Boston, the state capital of Massachusetts, for the third time.

For teams in the West, only one team is "lucky" to travel to Boston twice a year, and in the past two years, only the Lakers have visited on time in June, which is the most from the Purple and Gold in history.

This year, things finally changed, and the Trail Blazers became Boston's new "guests," and the historic city of the United States, full of basketball vibes and racism, was filled with things about the Finals — and signs welcoming the Trail Blazers.

"Welcome to new virgin land, Pioneers" – this is the placard that stood on the side of the road as the Pioneer buses arrived in downtown Boston.

This slogan does not seem to be aggressive, but it is full of contempt, the Trail Blazers, as a young team, although they have had a short period of glory, but on the big stage of history, especially on the stage of the finals, compared with the green giant Celtics, the Trail Blazers are just a small shrimp.

"I hate it here, and when I see the green here, it's like seeing the disgusting moss and mud in the sewers, and my heart immediately feels sick." After seeing these slogans, veteran Jones said that even if he doesn't count his ABA experience, he has come to Boston to play on the road the most times in the team.

"If it's a good feeling to be a player here, it's that there are so many racists here, and it's not easy for a black player like me to play here."

"I hope they don't have an opinion on the Chinese, if they do, then I can only say I'm sorry, I don't know your rules here, so I can only kick your ass hard." Gan Guoyang sat in the first row and looked back and said.

Gan Guoyang's words made the whole car laugh, Gan Guoyang has always been 100% retaliatory against all racists.

In the average team, racial discrimination often leads to pittishness between black and white players, especially in the sixties and seventies, when blacks were still restricted from entering the league.

But in the Trailblazers, their boss is a unique yellow person, not to mention in the Trailblazers, Gan Guoyang in the whole league is encouraged and helpless.

In this particular situation, Gan Guoyang is either isolated, or breaks the barrier and mingles with everyone, obviously Gan Guoyang is the latter, the entire Trailblazers team may have all kinds of contradictions, but there is absolutely no contradiction caused by skin color - anyone who speaks with skin color means disrespect to Gan Guoyang.

"It's almost time to get to the hotel, let's take a rest when we arrive, don't eat indiscriminately, have a good rest, I'm afraid that we will be harassed at night, so hurry up and sleep." In the afternoon we will arrange some simple training, keep in shape, be mentally prepared, and the evening will be very tough. Ramsey reminded the Trail Blazers that years of experience have taught him that he must be mentally prepared to play in Boston for any unexpected that may occur.

When the Trail Blazers arrived at their hotel, the hotel was already surrounded by slogans about the Celtics, including disparaging labels for the Trail Blazers, and the players were not surprised by this.

Fortunately, the Trail Blazers players all got a better rest in the afternoon, perhaps because the opponent was not the Lakers, and the local fans in Boston didn't seem to be very concerned about the Trail Blazers, and they didn't harass the Trail Blazers players endlessly.

After a full rest, the Trail Blazers team drove to Boston Garden Square at 4 p.m. to start pre-game warm-up training in advance, and more importantly, to adapt to the sweltering arena in advance.

"Hopefully their air conditioner won't break tonight." Gan Guoyang changed his clothes in the cramped and aggrieved away locker room in the Garden Square, while praying that the air conditioning in the stadium was working properly.

In the famous 1984 Finals series, the Celtics and Lakers played 2:2 in the first four games, and in the crucial fifth game of Tianwang Mountain, the central air conditioning in the Garden Square was "damaged", and the temperature of the court soared to 34 degrees Celsius, a temperature that is very unsuitable for players to play.

The Lakers' players struggled to adapt to such heat, and the 37-year-old Abdul-Jabbar almost fainted on the bench and had to rely on oxygen equipment to maintain his condition; On the contrary, the Celtics were like fish in water in such high temperatures, and Bird even said after the game that "running is windy", in such a state, Bird slashed 34 points and 17 boards, won this key battle, and finally won the championship.

While Red-headed Auerbach certainly won't admit to deliberately breaking the air conditioner, this cunning godfather will do anything to win, and you don't know what kind of tricks this old fox will use against the young Trailblazer tonight.

"If they dare to break the air conditioner, then let them taste the power of the sun god and scorch them completely!" Colter followed Gan Guoyang to get up with the "fox fake tiger might".

After the Western Conference Finals, Gan Guoyang has already earned his new title - "Sun God", and his shocking performances in Game 5 and Game 6 have conquered the basketball world, and major media outlets have taken the headline "Sun God Scorched Texas Land" to cover this miraculous series.

Of course, these are all in the past, and new problems are in front of the pioneers.

The first is physical strength, the Trail Blazers in seven big games, to face a 4-0 clean sheet opponent on the road, rest for more than a week, and wait for the Green Shirts at home, even if the average age of the Trail Blazers is younger, physical strength will become a big problem in the highly competitive finals.

Then there are injuries, in the Western Conference Finals, the Trail Blazers' two most important core players, Drexler and Gan Guoyang, both suffered injuries, and the glider suffered a foot injury for a season, and it is impossible to say that the Finals have no impact.

Gan Guoyang's left arm injury is also a time bomb, after a few days of rest and treatment, Gan Guoyang can already play, but his right arm is still wrapped with a thick arm guard, whether the finals can guarantee playing time, maintain the state is still a problem.

Finally, the most critical problem is the gap in strength, mentality, experience, etc., the gap between the Trail Blazers and the Celtics is obvious, even if the strongest center position, even if there is Gan Guoyang, in front of the Celtics' strong frontcourt lineup, I dare not say that there is an advantage, let alone the Trail Blazers' extremely inexperienced backcourt.

Colter and Drexler are really hard to take advantage of in front of Danny Angie and Dennis Johnson.

“One，Two，Three，Four…… Eleven，Twelve，Thirteen…… （1，2，3，4…… 11，12，13…… After the injury, Gan Guoyang was very worried about his shooting feel, after all, the fifth and sixth games relied on Gan Guoyang's anti-sky feel to pull back the team's momentum and bring the team back from the dead.

In the finals, based on the lessons of the regular season and the experience of the tragic death of the Rockets in the last round, the Celtics will definitely not let Gan Guoyang score so presumptuously.

Of course, whether they want to or not is one thing, whether they can or not is another thing, it all depends on Gan Guoyang's feel.

When Gan Guoyang's hand came, the big hook hand he had worked hard for many years was really difficult to stop, he was younger than Abdul-Jabbar, with more strength, better physical strength, and better offensive continuity.

Although Gan Guoyang was afraid of pinching, as soon as he felt better, he didn't give the other party a chance to pinch, and the last round of rockets was pinched by three people

used it, but as soon as Gan Guoyang received the ball, he immediately turned over and hooked his hand, and it was too late to strike.

"How's Gan, how is your arm recovering, is there a problem with shooting?" Ramsey walked over to Gan Guoyang and asked.

"I think I'll have to practice my left hook in the summer, otherwise something goes wrong with my right hand and I won't be able to keep up the firepower." Gan Guoyang looked at his left hand, although his left hand can also attack and hook his hand, but it has not yet reached the point of ignoring defense like his right hand.

"Don't think about the summer, don't think about the championship, think about this game, everybody says we're going to be swept by the Celtics." Ramsay said.

Now that fans, especially Boston fans, are looking forward to the Celtics setting a new record for playoff wins, a sweep of the Trail Blazers is their greatest desire, perhaps stronger than winning a championship.

Gan Guoyang also remembered that on the way to Boston, he also saw the slogan "Sweep", so that the Celtics could not only win the championship, but also set records, and avenge the sweep in the regular season, which was really a triple win.

"I know I'm not going to let them get away with it." Gan Guoyang said lightly.

At this time, Gan Guoyang actually remembered Iverson, in 2001, in the face of the Lakers who were undefeated in the first three rounds and had a rainbow of morale, Iverson led the Philadelphia 76ers, who had just fought two rounds and seven games, and scored 48 points on the road, pulling the invincible Lakers off the horse and breaking the undefeated golden body of the Lakers in the playoffs.

Although the 76ers still lost 1:4 to the powerful Lakers in the end, Iverson's momentum of seeing God and killing God in the Staples Center, as well as the spirit of "willing to cut his body and dare to pull the emperor off the horse", are deeply engraved in the minds of fans.

Of course, it's 1986, and Iverson is just 11 years old, sitting in front of the TV waiting for the Finals to begin, and his heart is behind the Portland Trail Blazers, who are not favored by most people.

After the training, the whole Trail Blazers decided to have dinner at Boston Garden Square instead of going back to the hotel, they were afraid of being plotted, and the staff of the stadium were still more responsible.

Not only the players, but also the team's staff ate together in the stadium, this time because Gan Guoyang had an arm injury, so Shui Miao, as his personal doctor, also came to Boston to pay attention to Gan Guoyang's injury at any time.

When the two were sitting together to eat, Gan Guoyang suddenly said to Shui Miao: "Old cat, feed me." ”

Shui Miao couldn't believe her ears when she heard it: "What did you say?" ”

"Feed me, I don't want to hold a knife, fork or chopsticks in my hands, it will ruin my feel." Gan Guoyang carefully placed his hand on his chest and did not touch anything.