Chapter 89 1984

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1984 was probably one of the most important turning points in the history of mankind in the 20th century and in modern Chinese history.

In January 1984, Apple launched the epoch-making Macintosh computer, and the development of computers entered a new era; Deng Gong toured the south and put forward the theory of market economy, and China's development also entered a new period.

In February 1984, Soviet General Secretary Andropov died, the second Soviet supreme leader to die in two years, and it also heralded a huge storm that was about to descend on the Red Sè Empire.

In March 1984, the Gonzaga Bulldog won the ncAA championship, which may have been a very inconspicuous event in world history, but only the season's MOP understood that it could well be a crucial step in changing history.

In April 1984, China won the Battle of Laoshan, which seemed to be just an ordinary local defense war, but it created a stable environment for the rapid development of China's southern region after that.

In May 1984, the Soviet Union announced a boycott of this year's Los Angeles Olympics in response to the boycott of the Soviet Union by Western countries at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. But China participated in this Olympic Games, and this is the first time that China has participated in the Olympic Games;

In the same month, in the NBA draft pick, the Houston Rockets, the last in the '83 West, and the Portland Trail Blazers, who received the 1984 Indiana Pacers draft pick, competed for the first-round pick, the first pick, by flipping a coin.

For the Houstonians, they are desperate to get another No. 1 pick so they can keep the local Houston basketball hero here and form the Twin Towers with the 1983 No. 1 pick.

For the Portlanders, it would be nice to get the No. 1 pick, but more people feel that it doesn't matter if they get the No. 1 pick, so that the legendary kid in Washington State can continue to stay in the Northwest, and the Trail Blazers need a second Bill Wharton.

For other teams, even without these two giants destined to become superstars, this year's draft is still a sumptuous feast, with countless delicious newcomers waiting for them to choose.

In the end, in this game of coins, the god of history stubbornly kept the wheels on track, and the Houston Rockets won their fourth overall pick, which was also the second year in a row that they won the first pick.

This also led to the introduction of a lottery system in the 1985 nBA draft to prevent certain teams from doing anything to get the top pick.

The person who changed this old system and determined the new system was the new president of nBA, David Stern, who replaced the previous president, Larry O'Brien, as the fourth president of nBA.

From that year on, the nBA championship trophy was also replaced, becoming what became known as the Larry O'Brien Cup.

And the rookies who shook hands with Stern one by one on the Madison Stadium in New York will also open up their own golden era with the new president.

Among them, there is a yellow-skinned and black-haired player who has attracted the attention of the whole United States, because he is not only the first yellow player to enter the NBA, but also the highest-ranked foreign player.

Although his results in the draft have long made such a result a certainty, the real result still shocked the whole United States.

The first foreign players to enter the nBA were Italy's D'Antoni (later Coach of the Suns), Netherlands' Knight and Trinidad and Tobago's Charles, but they can only be regarded as fringe players in the nBA, and it is really the first one like this one who has caused a huge shock before entering the league.

And his appearance was so sudden, almost in half a year, he suddenly occupied the front pages of major sports magazines, and the most commonly used image was on the court in the center of the Seattle Dome, in a sea of people, a player wearing a Gonzaga jersey and a girl wearing a pink sè hat hugged each other, which became an indelible classic in the history of ncAA.

However, the draft is only one aspect of the nBA's new life, and with Stern at the helm of the big league, it feels like it's having a big problem and a big challenge.

To this end, nBA made a number of reforms over the summer.

Some of the more important points are the change to a best-of-5 system in the first round of the playoffs, a 2-3-2 system in the finals, a lottery system for next year's draft, an all-star system in the season, and a salary cap system in the salary of players.

This series of reforms will all prove to be very important decisions post-RI and will really change the nBA, dragging it out of the quagmire and putting it in front of the fans with a shining image.

But this summer, these reforms against xing are still quietly brewing, and it is not yet time for them to take effect.

In June 1984, the World Olympic Paralympic Games were held in Los Angeles as a prelude to the Olympic Games, and in the competition, Chinese paralympic athlete Ping Yali won the gold medal in the long jump, becoming the first Chinese disabled athlete to win an Olympic gold medal.

This also indicates that China will definitely do something in the 1984 Olympic Games.

On July 28, 1984, the 23rd Olympic Games finally officially opened at the Memorial Stadium in Los Angeles, a city on the west coast of the United States.

In this white stadium full of ancient Greek flavor, next to the Olympic torch erected in the main stand, there is also a huge electronic screen.

Through this screen, spectators sitting at a distance can also see important shots and close-ups throughout the stadium.

And when the current US President Ronald Reagan appeared on the big screen and said, "I announce that the 23rd Los Angeles Olympics are now open", the whole venue was in a state of jubilation, and the band played the Olympic anthem.

The former governor of California also became the first top U.S. leader to preside over the opening ceremony in person.

"Why is the opening speech of the president of the United States so old-fashioned, I thought there would be some new tricks." In a corner of the venue's auditorium, a spectator wearing a cap said.

"It's as if you've seen the speeches of the Chinese leaders." The audience next to him, who was also wearing a peaked cap, replied.

These two guys are Wang Fuxi and Gan Guoyang, who went to Los Angeles to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Wang Fuxi usually likes to wear peaked caps, but Gan Guoyang has to wear hats, and now he is a celebrity.

"I was ...... I have seen the opening ceremony of our county games, and the county leader gave a speech like this, saying, 'Goose smoked cloth, the second place plus the west halo east meeting, and the west will be wiped out'! Gan Guoyang said with a mouthful of eyes that he didn't know where.

"What are you talking about...... I don't understand it, and I'm not allowed to speak your tongue!" "Wang Fuxi hates Gan Guoyang speaking in dialects when he speaks Chinese.

"Oops, that's to say, 'I announce, the second prefectural athlete, now open'! Anyway, these leaders are all in tune. Give me the binoculars and let me see. Gan Guoyang wanted to take the telescope from Wang Fuxi's hand, Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi sat in a position after all, and the situation on the field was not clear enough.

"No, you want to take it to see a beautiful woman? There are no doors. "Wang Fuxi's vinegar is not small.

"No, I want to see Chinese athletes! They were walking so fast just now that I couldn't see clearly, so let me see. "The athletes' entrance ceremony has ended, and Gan Guoyang's neck is really longer than a goose when the Chinese athletes enter.

At that moment, this Chinese guy from the future had a feeling of tears in his eyes when he saw Chinese athletes on the sports field in the United States.

"What's so good about Chinese athletes? You don't know. Wang Fuxi pouted and said.

"Who says I don't know! I know Xu Haifeng, and I also know Li Ning. Gan Guoyang was not convinced, as a sports fan, he was deeply impressed by China's debut in the 1984 Olympic Games.

"Who is Xu Haifeng? Li Ning: I think I've heard of it. Wang Fuxi asked curiously.

"You don't understand, let me see, China won the first gold medal by him!" Gan Guoyang suddenly found that this problem could not be talked about in detail, so he could only fool the past in one sentence, grabbed the telescope and began to look for the Chinese team in the team.

Soon he found China's five-star red flag and a tall flagbearer holding a flagpole in a national flag.

The flag-bearers of China's previous Olympic Games have always been held by tall and mighty basketball players, from Liu Yudong to Yao Ming, who are all the leaders of the Chinese sports team.

And this year, for the first time in China's history, the flag bearer is the main forward of the Chinese men's basketball team, Wang Libin.

"What would it be like if I could be the flag bearer of the Chinese team?" Such a thought suddenly popped into Gan Guoyang's mind.

But on second thought, given the degree of openness and bureaucracy of China at that time, and his experience of playing in the United States, even if he had always been a Chinese national, it would be difficult for him to represent China in the Olympics.

And now that he's in the NBA and has become a professional player, professional basketball players can't compete in the Olympics according to the rules of the Olympic Games before 1992.

In this way, Gan Guoyang's idea of wanting to participate in the Olympics can be said to be far away.

Gan Guoyang's thoughts drifted a little far away all of a sudden, he thought of the nBA in the future, thought of the draft at Madison Square Garden, thought of the tryout in Portland, and thought of the finals that he will never forget.

At this time, Gan Guoyang looked at the faces of the Chinese team that were about to be well-known to the Chinese people in the telescope, and a strong sense of fate suddenly rose in his heart.

"I still haven't escaped Portland." Gan thought about trying out in Portland and hearing Stern say "the-portland-trailBlazers-select-sunny-gump-from-gonzaga-university!" at the draft. At that time, his heart was mixed.

He didn't expect his semifinal match with Sam Powe to change the fate of the two drafts, and in the end, Sam Bowe fell to the sixth overall pick and was drafted by the Washington bullets.

Of course, Washington Bullet did not expect that at this historical crossing, which could have escaped the fate of being pitted, Washington chose to jump from one pit to another.

Stockton was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks at No. 11, but the Utah Jazz picked up Kevin Willis with the 16th pick, a direct victim of Gan Guoyang's gibbon.

The Utah Jazz then traded Kevin Willis and a future first-round pick and some of the first money for Atlanta's Stockton and veteran center Billy Poulz.

Stockton also failed to escape the predetermined fate, and still embarked on a long journey on the snowy plateau.

But for Gan Guoyang, the fate of others seems to be still following the established trajectory, but what about him? Came to the grave of the center, a cursed place!

Thinking of this, Gan Guoyang immediately lost the mind to watch the theatrical performance, although the trial in Portland and the enthusiasm of the local fans made him excited.

"Look, it's the flame!" At this time, Wang Fuxi suddenly shouted that the more than an hour of theatrical performance had ended, and the flame had entered the stadium.

A girl carries the flame into the memorial stadium – she is the granddaughter of the late passer Jesse Owens, and after several passes the flame reaches a black athlete in a white sè tracksuit, the famous American track and field athlete La Johnson.

Eventually, he ran to the cauldron and lit a five-ring flame lighting tunnel below the torch tower, lighting the torch tower at the highest point of the stadium, and the flames burned with the cheers of the audience, and the grand opening ceremony performance officially began!

"Forrest Gump, what game did you say I would go to watch tomorrow?" Wang Fuxi asked beside him.

"Shè hit the game!" Gan Guoyang blurted out that he wanted to witness Xu Haifeng's historical moment of winning the championship.

"Is the shè fight good?" Except for basketball, Wang Fuxi doesn't know much about other sports.

"Shè hit or ......" Gan Guoyang suddenly thought that if he went to the shè strike field and interfered with Xu Haifeng's play, wouldn't he be too guilty?

The sport of shè is a very mental test of the athlete's state of mind, and the slightest disturbance can change the final result.

"Forrest Gump, what's wrong? Still thinking about things with the Trail Blazers? Wang Fuxi thought that Gan Guoyang was thinking about signing a contract with the pioneers.

"Ah, no, I'm wondering what's so nice about the shè fight." Gan Guoyang said lightly, but Wang Fuxi did say what was on his mind.

"Forrest Gump, although you are very powerful, the conditions you have set for the pioneers are too ...... Anyway, I've never seen anyone open conditions like this. Wang Fuxi put his arm around Gan Guoyang and said.

"You don't understand... Anyway, my condition is very important! Gan Guoyang said.

"But... As soon as you mention this condition, a group of people from other people's teams will lose their jobs, which is not good. ”

It turned out that Gan Guoyang's condition for signing the Trailblazers turned out to be that Portland's medical team had to be replaced, and it was replaced by a candidate that Gan Guoyang was satisfied with.

This is really a bit strange in the history of the nBA, not to mention that rookies put forward such conditions, even those famous superstars only put forward the terms of money and contract length when they are close to the contract conditions, and no one said that they asked for a change of team doctor.

But Gan Guoyang is very insistent on this, he doesn't care about other conditions, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't have any benefits.

So at the end of July, he went to Los Angeles to watch the Olympics with Wang Fuxi, and in August he will return to Portland, on the one hand, to participate in Portland's training camp, and on the other hand, to complete two signings.

"Hmph, I just don't like that Shui Miao anyway! I'm not married even when I'm so old! Wang Fuxi suddenly said angrily.

"Uh, but ......"

"Don't talk about it, we'll see later!"