Leaving the icy Milwaukee, the Trail Blazers took another flight to the second stop of the six-pack, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gan arrived in Philadelphia with the team the day before the game, and in Cauchy's words, no one wanted to spend even a minute more in Milwaukee.

Philadelphia is as cold as Milwaukee, and it was snowing when the Trail Blazers arrived, but the oldest city in the United States is much more interesting than Milwaukee, and Gan Guoyang received the news as soon as he arrived at the hotel after arriving in Philadelphia, and Wilt Chamberlain was also in Philadelphia, and was going to invite Gan Guoyang to play in the Baker League in the evening.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Gan Guoyang really received an invitation call from Chamberlain, Zhang Dashuai has always been floating around the United States, looking for people to play everywhere when he is idle, or running to the stadium to watch the game, and then accept an interview with reporters after the game, complaining about the poor scoring ability of NBA centers.

Of course, Chamberlain has always admired Gan Guoyang very much, as early as when Gan Guoyang was in high school, the two were old friends, Chamberlain especially likes to brag and chat with Gan Guoyang, sometimes he will make a special trip to the away game to watch Gan Guoyang's games, especially when the Trail Blazers played the Lakers, Warriors and Philadelphia, because Chamberlain played in these three cities, it is very simple to get a ticket.

For this unmarried old naughty boy who likes to play around, Gan Guoyang is sometimes very warm, such as going to the street to play this kind of thing, the team has always been more opposed, not to mention the possibility of players being injured, going to the street to play will also disrupt the players' physical adjustment and training plan.

After receiving Chamberlain's call, Chamberlain couldn't help but say on the phone that Gan Guoyang had no chance to refuse, so he had to agree to Chamberlain and prepare to go to his destination.

This time, Gan Guoyang is not going to play on the ordinary streets, but to participate in the famous Baker League in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia's Baker League is well-known in the United States, it was founded in 1960, the founder is Philadelphia basketball legend Sonny-Hill (Sonny-Hill), although he never entered the NBA, has been playing in the later NBA subordinate league, the "Eastern Conference" at that time, but then he created the Baker League, so that the first 5-foot-9 small man who was denied a basketball scholarship, famous in basketball history.

In the sixties, when the NBA was not yet professional, it was very common for professional players to go to the streets to play leagues in the summer, so street basketball at that time was not a fancy thing later, and there were a large number of outstanding professional players such as the famous Chamberlain, "Black Pearl" Earl Monroe, Billy Cunningham, Bill Bradley and so on.

And the pros aren't just here to kill time or get some prize money, players like Bill Bradley, who have been away from the professional league for a while, rely on the Baker league to get back to their form.

Later, as the salaries of players became higher and the NBA game schedule became more and more heavy, many big-name players were reluctant to "waste" their precious time on the streets, let alone take the risk of injury.

Later, on the basis of the Baker League, Sonny Hill founded the "Sonny Hill" League, which was mainly for young high school players, and the league has since expanded to include the lower grades and colleges, giving more and more young people the opportunity to exercise.

In the days to come, a Philadelphia son returning from Italy will hone his skills in the Sonny Hill League and eventually embark on the path to superstardom.

The Baker League has not ended, and the league has become a basketball mecca for young players in the Philadelphia area, competing with Rock Park in New York.

Gan got into a Philadelphia taxi in the snow and soon arrived at what Chamberlain called St. Joseph's University Alumni Donation Arena, which was one of the venues for the Baker League.

After arriving at the destination, fortunately, Gan Guoyang has become a household name in the United States, and the people who showed him the way along the way took the initiative to post it, and then Gan Guoyang arrived at the alumni donation gymnasium, and saw Wilt Chamberlain wearing a thin sportswear and sunglasses in the winter at the door.

"Hello Gan! You're a little too slow, Ciel and I have been waiting for you here for fifteen minutes and nine seconds! ”

Gan Guoyang lazily ignored this guy, stepped forward and high-fived him, and then shook hands with the small, flowery old man standing aside.

This little old man is none other than Sonny Hill, the founder of the Baker League and the godfather of Philadelphia basketball.

"It's nice to meet you Gan, in the past, when Jack was on the phone with me, he would often mention you, and now that he is retired, he will still mention you, haha, I have seen you play for many years, and this is the first time I have met you face to face."

The old man's enthusiasm surprised Gan Guoyang, and what surprised Gan Guoyang even more was that the jack he mentioned was the former head coach of the Trail Blazers, and now retired to take care of his wife at home.

In the sixties, Ramsey worked for the Philadelphia 76ers, when he was the team's general manager, he had long heard of Sonny Hill's name, and knew that Sonny Hill was interested in working as a basketball live broadcaster, so he kindly asked Hill to become a radio announcer for the Philadelphia 76ers, and the two formed a deep friendship.

"Thank you, Mr. Ramsay is my best mentor, and I'm sorry he didn't keep fighting in the league, otherwise I would have brought him another championship." Gan Guoyang felt a little sour in his heart when he thought of Jack Ramsay, the coach who loved and hated him.

"Okay, okay, don't let this meeting turn into a sour greeting, we should be simple, I called you here just to have a good game with you, don't talk so much nonsense, there's a guy waiting for us inside." Chamberlain said impatiently on the sidelines that he was a gentle guy, but there were times when he wasn't as patient as Nate Thurmond.

Sonny Hill gave Chamberlain a blank look, and then took Gan Guoyang into the arena, where many people were already training and competing in full swing.

Gan Guoyang immediately found the familiar guy Chamberlain said among everyone, because everyone else took the initiative to vacate a basket for him to practice shooting, and the others could only use the basket on the other side, he was wearing a red training uniform and carrying the No. 6 number on his back, which was the city basketball hero of Philadelphia, Dr. J, Julius Irving.

In the 1986-1987 season, after being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Bucks, the then 37-year-old Irving knew that his basketball life was running out, and he chose to retire at the end of the season, and the NBA's once iconic figure ended his illustrious career.

Take a season, Gan Guoyang was reimbursed for the whole season because of injury, so he couldn't complete the last two fights with Dr. J, I have to say that it is also a pity, after all, Gan Guoyang's dunk is often called the "low-flying" version of Dr. J's dunk.

At this time, Dr. J has long lost the flamboyant explosive head of his youth, but has simple and simple short hair, looking like an ordinary middle-aged black man, not at all like the super trapeze who once flew over the basketball court.

Seeing Gan Guoyang and Chamberlain coming in together, Dr. J also stopped practicing and stepped forward to shake hands with Gan Guoyang.

Not only Dr. J, but the entire alumni donation gymnasium stopped, and they looked at Gan Guoyang with a little excitement in their eyes, not knowing whether it was the excitement of seeing the idol or looking forward to the next fight on the field.

"Werther, as long as he likes it, he will call people over to play, and he calls retired people like us, even those who are on active duty to come to play." Dr. J was indeed a little helpless about Chamberlain's "domineering" behavior.

Chamberlain in San Francisco, in New York, in Los Angeles, he likes to call friends out to play, and in San Francisco Thurmond he can't call, he will pull in the Warriors players to fill the court.

In Los Angeles, he travels to UCLA every summer to meet Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, not to mention New York, where the doors of Rock Park are always open.

In Philadelphia, revisiting the Baker League is what Chamberlain often does, Moses Malone has always been uninterested in Chamberlain, and now that Dr. J is retired, Chamberlain likes to pull Irving to play in the Baker League.

Don't allow Owen and Gan Guoyang to struggle, Chamberlain took off his thin sweatshirt, and without saying a word, he pointed at the players around him, and divided the team.

Some of these players are street basketball players here, some are local college students, high school students, and all of them are Philadelphia basketball talents anyway, but these people Chamberlain don't pay much attention to it, even if he has been retired for almost 20 years.

Gan Guoyang, who is at his peak, naturally doesn't care even more, anyway, he is playing with these students, and the main task is to let Chamberlain have enough fun and have fun.

Chamberlain obviously doesn't need any warm-up, he still has a perfect athlete figure when he takes off his clothes, which is enough to see that he still maintains a lot of exercise in the more than ten years since he retired.

Gan Guoyang also didn't warm up much, took off his coat, looked at the players who were pointed at him by Chamberlain, nodded at them, and prepared to play.

"Wirt, what do you think the media will do if I recreate the miracle of scoring 100 points on your head?" Gan Guoyang walked to Chamberlain's side and suddenly said to Chamberlain.

When Chamberlain heard this, he looked at Gan Guoyang, and wanted to refute it, but when he thought that he had retired for more than ten years, Gan Guoyang was at his peak, and if he fought with all his might, he would really be able to score a hundred points on his head.

Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Chamberlain's head, thinking that maybe it was a mistake to find Gan to play, and his reputation would be ruined like this?