In the 1985 NBA Finals, there was a thrilling battle between yellow and green.

In the first game, the Los Angeles Lakers were slaughtered by the Celtics at the Boston Garden Arena, and they lost by a deficit of 114:148, 34 points.

In this game, Abdul-Jabbar, who was a little old in the Western Conference Finals, performed even more poorly, he was completely blown out by Robert Parish, and at the age of 38, he seems to have reached the end of his career.

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When Gan Guoyang saw this situation at the time, his reaction was different from that of many media, many of whom believed that the Lakers and Abdul-Jabbar were out of play, and they were no match for the Celtics at all.

But Gan Guoyang knew how cruel the Lakers' trainers were when he was in Palm Springs last offseason, when he and Drexler practiced for a day and went straight down.

And the Lakers have been training with this intensity for a whole summer, and he has experienced the surging motivation of the Lakers players in the Western Conference Finals, so Gan Guoyang fully believes that the Lakers will never fail.

What's more, the words of the blind Chris are still firmly in his mind, the champion in 1985 was the Los Angeles Lakers.

Sure enough, in the second game, Jabbar was crazy about teenagers, who only scored 12 points and 3 rebounds in the last game, and slashed 30 points, 17 rebounds, 8 assists and 3 blocks at the Boston Garden Arena, completely pressing Robert Parish, who "humiliated" him in the last game.

Under the full control of Magic Johnson, the Lakers achieved an all-round advantage from the beginning, pressing the Celtics all over the game, and finally defeated the Lakers 109-102, sweeping away the shame of the last game and regaining the home-court advantage of the sharp game.

In the third game, which was played on June 2 at the Great Western Forum, the Lakers beat the Celtics 136-111 to take a 2-1 lead in the series, and the team was in a good situation.

In the crucial fourth game, the game on June 5, Gan Guoyang took the tickets to the finals purchased in advance and went to Los Angeles to watch the game in person.

This is the second time Gan Guoyang has watched the NBA Finals in Los Angeles, the last time was in 1982.

Gan Guoyang is an inconspicuous on the court? In the eye-catching corner, I watched this thrilling yellow-green battle.

On the Celtics' side, Larry Bird struggled on offense with injuries and Michael Cooper's strong defense.

In the second game, he only made 9 of 21 shots, and in the third game, he only hit 8 shots of 21 shots, and the slump of the core characters greatly reduced the Celtics' form.

However, McHale and Dennis Johnson stepped up in Game 4, and the two of them supported the Celtics' offense inside and out.

The two sides fought to the final critical moment, and in the most tense moment, Dennis Johnson received a pass from Bird and hit a buzzer-beating jumper to help the Celtics beat the Lakers on the road, and the overall score of the two sides became 2:2.

After the game, when Gan Guoyang left the stadium with the slightly disappointed fans, he saw an old acquaintance near the players' tunnel.

"Hey, Wilt!" Gan Guoyang squeezed all the way from the back seat to the front as he saw the front seat stand up to Wilt Chamberlain.

As a former member of the Lakers, Chamberlain brought a championship ring to the Lakers, and his jersey was also hung over the Great Western Forum Arena, so he would definitely be invited by the team to watch a game like the Finals.

However, Chamberlain didn't expect that Gan Guoyang, the opponent of the Lakers, would also come to watch the game.

"Hey, Gan! You're wearing a cap, and I don't really recognize you. In order to prevent too much unnecessary trouble, Gan Guoyang not only picked the back position when he came to watch the game, but also wore a big peaked cap.

Chamberlain's shout startled the celebrities around him who were watching the game, and they all turned their heads to look at the giant standing behind them.

"Stinky boy, how dare you come here to watch the game? I finally know why the Lakers lost today, it's all because of you! It was Gan Guoyang's old friend at the Great Western Forum Arena, Jack Nicholson.

The two had a lot of verbal battles during the Western Conference Finals, especially when the Lakers finally eliminated the Trail Blazers, which made Nicholson even more proud, he didn't expect Gan Guoyang to go to the Great Western Forum Arena to watch the game.

Gan Guoyang looked at Nicholson's fierce mouth, but with a smile on his face, knowing that this family was still joking, so he said: "Okay, I promise that I won't come to watch the next game, and I wish the Lakers to win the championship." ”

"You kid, when did your mouth become so sweet, it doesn't look like you at all." Nicholson was also sprayed by Gan Guoyang in the game.

In addition to Nicholson, an old friend, sitting in the front row of VIP seats are famous musicians in the American pop music industry, Burt Baikla and Neil Diamond, as well as Hollywood star Tom Selick.

Burt Bykla and Neil Diamond, Gan Guoyang was not familiar with them in later generations, but after coming to the United States in the eighties, the songs of these two guys appeared in Gan Guoyang's ears all year round.

And Tom Selick, Gan Guoyang has not seen his movie, but he stared at Selick's face because he felt that the more he watched it, the more he looked like a person in a certain TV series, until Gan Guoyang shook hands with him and the two greeted each other, Gan Guoyang remembered that this guy was Monica's boyfriend in "Friends", ophthalmologist Richard Burke.

Of course, at that time, Friends hadn't even started filming.

Gan Guoyang and these Los Angeles celebrities greeted each other one by one, and his arrival also caused a commotion in the media on the sidelines, many reporters picked up their cameras and took pictures of Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang knew that he would definitely be in the newspaper tomorrow.

Subsequently, Chamberlain invited Gan Guoyang to have a supper together, and the two talked about basketball at the dinner table, but unlike Thurmond's careful teaching of Gan Guoyang's defensive skills, Chamberlain's most advice to Gan Guoyang was "After the game, have more fun, don't always soak in the training hall."

Gan Guoyang had long been accustomed to Chamberlain's impropriety, he would not follow Chamberlain's suggestion to go to Japan to gather 20,000 women, and after eating, he went back to his residence in Los Angeles, Wang Fuxi's house.

Wang Fuxi was still in school at this time, so Gan Guoyang lived in his father-in-law's house for two days as a prospective son-in-law to facilitate him to watch the game.

However, after staying for a few days, Gan Guoyang couldn't stay any longer, he didn't care so much about the final ownership of the championship, and he couldn't find a place to play in Los Angeles, which was his biggest headache.

Now he can't go to the street courts of the black district alone, after all, he is too famous, and for a Chinese star, it is still quite dangerous to play in Inglewood.

As for UCLA, Chamberlain would have played there in the summer, but Gan Guoyang didn't want to go back there, and he didn't bother to go to Qian Moss, he was afraid that Qian Moss would take him to spend time drinking.

At this time, a phone call from Spokane may solve Gan Guoyang's troubles, and the caller is none other than Gan Guoyang's college friend, John Stockton.

In the call, Mr. Stockton invited Mr. Gan to Iowa for a vacation, saying that his teammates on the Jazz had a small estate in a small town where the two could also play basketball.

Gan Guoyang also misses the days of playing with Stockton, and he also wants to stay away from the media, and he has been harassed by the Los Angeles media a lot in the past few days.

Finally on June 7, the day of the finals of Tianwang Mountain, Gan Guoyang said goodbye to Wang Fuxi's parents and went to Los Angeles Airport to fly to Des Moines, the capital of Iowa.

Iowa is located in the central region of the United States, further east than Nebraska, and like several central states, Iowa is also a famous agricultural state, which is what Gan Guoyang calls "the big countryside".

The most famous agricultural product here is pork.

Compared to Indiana and other states, Iowa is a barren region for sports, with no NBA teams, no MLB baseball teams, no NFL football teams, and a professional league desert except for college teams.

When Gan Guoyang arrived in Des Moines, the largest city in Iowa, he found that he was completely ordinary here, and the people around him stared at him because of his height and skin color, but few people knew that he was a famous star in the NBA now.

But this is exactly what Gan Guoyang wants, when the Internet media has not yet become popular, it is relatively easy for a sports star like him to disappear from the public eye.

At the airport gate in Des Moines, Stockton drove a blue Ford car and waited for Gan Guoyang's arrival, and there was no extra greeting after the two met, Gan Guoyang opened the door directly and sat in the front seat, and Stockton also started the car.

"Which of your friends lives in a place where this bird doesn't poop? I think Salt Lake City is good enough for birds not to. Gan Guoyang asked, looking at the sparse vehicles along the way.

"It's Bob Hansen, our team's backup point guard, and I'm good friends and I've learned a lot from him. He invited me to her little estate in the summer, and I thought you'd love the quieter ones too, so I came to you. Stockton replied.

"yes, I'm going to be annoyed by reporters in Los Angeles, and I can't go anywhere."

"We'll go to Hansen's house later, we'll pack up a little bit, and drive straight to Muscatine, where his estate is."

"Muscatine? Sounds like a good feeling. ”