Chapter 50 Mechanics
In June, the NBA Finals, the most important basketball event in the United States, also came to an end in this increasingly hot weather.
In the end, the Philadelphia 76ers still lost to their old rival Los Angeles Lakers with a total score of 2:4.
The Los Angeles Lakers won their second championship in three years to the cheers of thousands of fans at home, and Magic Johnson won the Finals MVP again with his outstanding performance, which is only his third year in the NBA.
Everything came to an end, some people were disappointed and some were proud, some were happy and some were sad, and such dramas will be staged again and again in the future, showing scenes of basketball tragicomedy for those who love basketball.
At this time, Gan Guoyang, as a preparatory actor, was on the difficult road of obtaining an actor qualification certificate.
stayed in Los Angeles for nearly a week, except for watching the third, fourth, and sixth finals, he was almost always with Wang Fuxi the rest of the time.
After watching his cheap apprentice surprise in the dunk contest that day, Gan Guoyang was led by Wang Fuxi, and in Martha's surprised gaze and teasing, he went to her favorite Chinese restaurant for lunch.
Every day after that, Gan Guoyang would find Wang Fuxi at noon and evening, and hang out with her in Inglewood.
Gan Guoyang's life in the past was actually very monotonous, and reading and basketball were almost all of his life.
Although he is from the future, he has no interest in video games, because video games in this era are really bad in Gan Guoyang's opinion.
In high schools in the United States, many people start to fall in love early, and Gan Guoyang, as an amphibious star of Palo Alto High School, is really easy to find a girlfriend.
But firstly, he always felt that falling in love would occupy his training time too much, and secondly, he had a small psychological barrier to falling in love with a girl who was actually his "mother" level.
Of course, in the final analysis, it is because he did not meet the person he liked.
When a person meets someone he likes, then all the reasons for reluctance and love in the past will be reasonably discarded and thrown into the trash.
Gan Guoyang doesn't know if he is in love now, but at the very least, he feels very happy and calm in the week he has been with Wang Fuxi.
When he and Wang Fuxi walked side by side on the streets of Inglewood, which were not very clean and tidy, everything seemed to be beautiful.
Their relationship is also getting closer, and there are more and more things to say.
Wang Fuxi also discovered that the basketball idol in his original heart also had amazing knowledge and conversation.
He has a wide range of knowledge and insights in history, geography, astronomy, music, and film.
Especially his foresight analysis of some future trends, although Wang Fuxi seems to understand it or not, he always feels that Gan Guoyang knows everything and says everything right.
Gan Guoyang, this guy, is naturally stained with the light from the future and the explosion of Internet knowledge, but he doesn't know that the reason why the girl who is with him always listens to him so seriously and listens to him say something that girls are not interested in at all is not because of how good he is right, but because he is Gan Guoyang.
He is still far from understanding what the structure of a woman's mind is like.
However, the two never crossed that line, and they didn't even hold hands, just like two friends.
The occasional friction between the arms is already the limit of contact between the two.
Even so, in the increasingly hot June, touching Wang Fuxi's arm, Gan Guoyang could still feel a trace of slippery and cool, like a piece of white jade.
Every time he did this, he felt a surge of blood rush through his heart, as if he was going to throw the last shot at the end of the game.
A week of wonderful contact ended soon, the finals were over, and Gan Guoyang was going back to San Francisco with Gan Guohui and Chen Xing.
In this week, Gan Guohui and Chen Xing disappeared in the morning for Gan Guoyang, and it was no surprise that they came back after dinner, anyway, these two guys went to the electric city in Los Angeles every day to play electric, and they had a lot of fun, where to care about the eldest cousin's business.
However, this time he left Los Angeles for a short time, because Gan Guoyang will soon go to UCLA with Qian Hui to fill in his own materials, prepare for admission, and enter this school that dominates American college basketball.
On June 14, five days after the end of the Grand Final, in the Southern Hemisphere, the Falklands War ended on this day.
Argentina, which had taken the lead in an undeclared war, lost to the British fleet that had come from afar, announced its surrender, and the Argentine dictatorship collapsed.
At this time, Gan Guoyang, who had only been home for a few days, sat in his cousin Qian Hui's car, drove on the California highway, and went to Los Angeles again.
A war began with Gan Guoyang entering Los Angeles, but ended with Gan Guoyang returning to Los Angeles again.
For Gan Guoyang, this period of time is a mental journey for himself, a baptism and rebirth for himself, and he has become more mature and stable at this time; For a regime, however, this period of time has brought destruction.
Time is like this, desperately pushing everyone down on the way forward, whether you can get up or not, only depends on yourself.
Qian Hui has also been undergoing a baptism recently, but it is not her own heart that baptizes her, but the huge pressure from the outside world.
Hinckley's case is about to go to trial on the 21st, and she will soon be on her way* to defend the killer of the president's assassination.
As a lawyer, no matter how heinous the criminal is and how certain the crime is, she must try her best to protect the legal rights of the criminal, so that the criminal can get a fair trial and punishment.
Although in the eyes of others, in such a case, the main culprit is not worth defending at all, and he can be killed directly, why drag it on for so long.
At least, in Gan Guoyang's opinion, this is the case.
"Cousin, that murderer, how are you going to defend him? All took guns and went directly to kill the president, put aside our ancient China, that is the Nine Tribes! Gan Guoyang sat in the Chevrolet convertible of "Qian Ye", looking at the straight and empty California highway and asked.
"This is not ancient China, the United States is a society that pays attention to the law. Even if he is a serial murderer, he will have a lawyer to defend him so that he can receive a fair and just trial. Qian Hui explained that during a year of contact, she found that this cousin had a lot of ideas in his head, which was stronger than her unlucky son.
"Alas, fairness, there is no justice for those who are killed or injured from the moment they lose their lives or health." Gan Guoyang sat in the co-pilot and said boredly.
But as soon as he said this, Qian Hui didn't know how to respond, and the car returned to silence.
Gan Guoyang didn't want to talk about such a heavy topic anymore, he was just thinking that he must go to Wang Fuxi when he arrives in Los Angeles.
The last time they parted, he looked at the girl as if she was crying, even though she tried to cover her eyes with her hat.
During the few days in San Francisco, he didn't contact her, because he didn't even know her home phone, and it was really annoying to have a mobile phone in this era.
In this way, Qian Hui drove all the way to Los Angeles, where Gan Guoyang was haunted by his dreams.
Instead of going to Inglewood, though, they headed straight for an even more important destination, UCLA.
The University of California, Los Angeles, abbreviated as UCLA, was the dominant player in American college basketball in the 70s and the winner of seven consecutive championships.
They have legendary coach John Woodon and two legendary centre-forwards, Kareem Abdullah Abdul-Jabbar, who was still called Alcindor at the time, and Bill Wharton.
In short, this is the mecca of American big basketball, and all American high school players, especially centers, want to play here to carry on the glory of Abdul-Jabbar and Wharton.
However, when Qian Hui drove to an intersection not far from UCLA, the car broke down.
"Oops, it looks like there's something wrong with the engine." Qian Hui drove and suddenly found that although his foot stepped on the accelerator, the car was obviously not working.
Finally, the speed of the car became slower and slower, and Qian Hui had no choice but to drive him to the side of the road before the car completely lost power.
"I have to call the police and ask them to deal with it." Gan Guoyang got out of the car, but he was helpless.
He was still a little worried about whether he was too tall and heavy and broke the car.
"That's all it takes, fortunately, the school isn't far away, look, it's just ahead, do you see the red twin towers?" Qian Hui pointed to a red church-like building not far ahead, which was UCLA.
Gan Guoyang looked up and saw that in a lush green, there were many buildings hidden.
Is that UCLA, the place where you will be fighting with basketball?
"It still feels so far away......" Gan Guoyang thought in his heart, I don't know if he meant to be far away, or something else.
But now, the problem is again, the phone can't be found.
In the era when there were no mobile phones, you could only find a public phone booth, but there were no phone booths nearby!
"Otherwise, let's leave the car here, anyway, the school is not far away, we can go there first, and then call the traffic police in the school to help." Gan Guoyang proposed.
"Well, that's all there is to it." Qian Hui could only shake her head helplessly.
"Hey, do you guys need help?" At this time, a somewhat rough and hoarse voice came from the side, and it seemed that passers-by saw the plight of the two and wanted to help.
"Uh... We..."Gan Guoyang was about to turn around and say something, but the owner who saw the voice was obviously stunned.
It's too high.
This is the idea that immediately popped into Gan Guoyang's mind when he saw the speaker.
At this time, Gan Guoyang was already a 6-foot-10 giant, and when he walked on the street, he was always an existence that others looked up to.
Even on the basketball court, there weren't too many people taller than him in high school games.
However, the white man in front of him needed him to look up, and Gan Guoyang felt that his brain should only go to the other party's nose.
And this person's figure is also a full circle larger than Gan Guoyang.
Obviously, this is a super giant who has reached a height of about 7 feet 3.
Qian Hui was also taken aback when she saw this giant.
Gan Guoyang is already tall enough, and he is very aggrieved when he sits in her car, and now he has a higher one.
It was as if she had arrived in the land of giants.
"Hello, is there anything I can do to help?" Again, the giant spoke, speaking a little slowly, but with sincerity.
"Our car broke down, it looked like there was something wrong with the engine. Also, we couldn't find a phone here, and no traffic police came to help. Gan Guoyang came back to his senses and said to the other party.
"Oh, if you don't mind, I can help you see what's wrong. Do you have a toolbox? "The giant offered to help see what was wrong with the car.
Qian Hui saw that there was really no good way to do it now, so he took out a set of tools from the trunk and handed it to the white man.
I saw that he skillfully lifted the front cover of the car, took out the wrench and driver in the toolbox, and checked it on the engine.
"Can it be fixed, sir?" Gan Guoyang asked.
"Oh, it must be that there is a problem with the carburetor of the engine, and there are some impurities blocking the pipes, so that the oil mist cannot be sprayed into the combustion chamber, so the car can't move forward." The white man quickly figured out the problem.
"So what should I do?"
"Need to take the carburetor off and deal with it, wait a minute." With that, he began to disassemble the parts of the engine.
"Oh my god, can it be fixed?" Qian Hui muttered in her heart, this Chevrolet was only bought last year, a new model.
"You must have used substandard fuel to cause the carburetor to get clogged with some oil." The white man had already removed the carburetor from the engine and began to remove the dirt from it.
"Sir, you're so tall, do you play basketball?" Gan Guoyang finally couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and asked.
"Oh yes, but I'm graduating this year. Well, the problem shouldn't be too big, clean it up, and then put it back on, and there will be no problem. "It seems that the white man is about to be solved.
But Gan Guoyang was clearly more interested in his first half of the sentence.
"Are you a UCLA student? Is it the UCLA basketball team? ”
"Oh yes, but I'm just a nobody. But don't compare me and Alcindor to Bill Wharton. The white man said with a big laugh.
"OK, no problem, I'll put it on and the car will be on the road again!"
"And will you be in this year's NBA Draft?" Gan Guoyang was like a paparazzi, asking questions in the back.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe it won't. To be honest, I don't have much confidence, and if the team doesn't want to pick me, then I'll go back to the gas station or the garage and work as a car worker. You see, my skills are okay, and the car should be able to start. ”
Qian Hui sat back in the driver's seat, twisted the key and started the car, and sure enough, the engine was working normally again.
"Thank you, sir, I believe you will be able to get a good draft result, good people will be rewarded." Gan Guoyang said to this enthusiastic big guy.
"Haha, thank you, I hope so. Anyway, I still like to fix cars. The white man said with a big humor.
"Goodbye and hope to see you again in the future, on the basketball court. My name is Gan, and Sunny Gump。 Gan Guoyang got into the car and said goodbye to the white people.
"Oh, goodbye, Gump, my name is Mark Eaton."
Marco Eaton, a former mechanic, was drafted by the Utah Jazz in the fourth round of the 1982 draft.
But he eventually became the NBA's all-time block per game champion and two-time Defensive Player of the Year winner.
In Gan's NBA career, Eaton will be a mountain he will have to climb.