The meeting with Soviet coach Gomorsky went very well, and the Soviet coach did not patronize the victory with the players after the game, but remembered the date with Gan Guoyang before the semi-finals, and went to the Olympic Village alone to talk to him about Sabonis.

Although the mass media was not particularly developed at that time, and the United States and the Soviet Union were also in a state of hostility, as a professional basketball person, he was also full of interest in the NBA.

When he learned that a Chinese player was able to gain a foothold in the NBA, he was surprised and curious, and did everything possible to know about Gan Guoyang's play.

It was in 1985 that David Stern sent several videos to China Central Television, including a video of Gan Guoyang's game.

After he saw the live video of Gan Guoyang's game, he was shocked for a while, he didn't expect that a yellow person has such excellent physical fitness and basketball skills, and in the powerful NBA, not only is it a good mix, but it even has a tendency to dominate the league.

Of course, these tapes shocked not only Gomorsky, but also the entire Eastern European basketball world, the success of a yellow man in the NBA, undoubtedly made those white big men eager to go to the highest halls of world basketball to try their skills.

In fact, in the pre-tournament mobilization for the semifinals against the United States, Gomolski promised some players that they would be able to go to the NBA and show themselves on a higher basketball stage.

If history had gone its way, Gomorsky would have broken his promise, and with his energy, it would not be enough to break the deadlock between the United States and the Soviet Union and send Soviet players, especially Sabonis, a center who had already been drafted by the Trail Blazers in the 1986 draft, to the NBA.

But the emergence of Gan Guoyang changed history, this change is not only passive, in fact, Gan Guoyang took the initiative to participate in the rewriting of history, which is also the process of him taking a great risk and hoping to change the history of basketball by relying on his personal strength.

In Gan Guoyang's view, history has been distorted a lot anyway, the Celtics picked up Baias in the 1986 draft, Baias had a heart attack in a celebratory drug abuse, but was found in time to save it, although this made Baias banned by the league and triggered a major cleanup of the player's drug problem, but he eventually survived.

The surviving Baias made up for the Celtics' lack of athleticism, allowing Kevin McHale and Larry Bird to get more rest in the regular season, and although his mediocre performance in the 1987 Finals, his presence was enough to help the Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers, avenging the 1985 Finals defeat and completing the first consecutive championship since 1969 - the last time was also the Celtics.

However, in 1988, the Celtics finally suffered injuries, Bird's back injury, Kevin McHale's leg injury, and Wharton's injury all over the body, which led to their defeat to the bad boy Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and the loss of a three-game winning streak.

However, the Pistons with Adrian Dantley did not waste the opportunity of the Finals, and after winning the Tianwang Mountain in the fifth game to take a 3:2 lead, in the fourth quarter of the sixth game, Isaiah Thomas, who was dragging a broken leg, scored 25 points in a single quarter, and Bill Lambir blocked Abdul-Jabbar's last attack, helping the Pistons win the sixth game and win the 1988 NBA championship in one fell swoop, which also led to the Lakers losing to the NBA Finals for two consecutive years.

All of this is inconsistent with the original history, but it is a little similar to the history that "blind" Chris told Gan Guoyang, so Gan Guoyang felt that it was time to take the initiative and fight for his championship ring.

Sabonis is an important step for Gan Guoyang, as the star of the Trailblazers, but for a Soviet player who may coincide with his position, he specially went to South Korea to mediate, including the Pioneers themselves, they all feel that Gan Guoyang's approach is unreasonable and inexplicable.

First of all, he understands that even without Sabonis, the possibility of winning the championship is quite high in terms of the lineup after the Trail Blazers trade this year, but Gan Guoyang has more than just a championship in mind. In the current era when the center dominates, having such a super big man with a changeable style of play, even if he and Gan Guoyang's position coincides, it will definitely be more beneficial and less harmful to the Trailblazers.

Secondly, in Gan Guoyang's heart, the biggest opponent in the West is the Lakers, although Abdul-Jabbar is forty years old, but in this year's playoffs, it still caused a lot of trouble to Gan Guoyang, plus Riley's targeted defensive strategy, if you have Sabonis, the Trail Blazers will definitely have more options in dealing with Abdul-Jabbar and cracking the Lakers' interior defensive strategy.

Third, after considering the West, it is necessary to consider the possible opponents of the Eastern Conference Finals, and whether it is the Celtics who beat them in 86 or the Pistons who won the championship this year, they all have proud frontcourt strength, especially the Detroit Pistons, Bill Lambir, Dennis Rodman, Rick Mahon, John Sully and James Edwards' frontcourt combination, with extremely terrifying defensive ability, in the 1988 regular season meeting, the Trail Blazers lost to the Pistons twice, and Gan Guoyang was treated like a wheel war.

Now, the Trail Blazers have gathered Gan Guoyang, Buck Williams and Kevin Duckworth on the inside, and they can already fight the Pistons.

It is based on these three considerations, coupled with interest and confidence in Sabonis, that Gan Guoyang persuaded the management of the Trail Blazers, and even opened up the top management of the league, hoping that they could give Sabonis the green light to enter the NBA, for which Gan Guoyang also contacted Stern many times.

The United States is easy to handle, but the real difficulty is the Soviet side, due to the bad political relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, Sabonis's club CSKA Moscow is proposing a sky-high transfer fee to make it difficult for the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Gomolsky that Gan Guoyang is now going to meet is the head coach of CSKA Moscow, and, after the end of this Olympic Games, he will become the president of CSKA Club.

If Gomolsky can be managed, then Sabonis's journey to the United States will be half the battle.

It was not as difficult as Gan Guoyang imagined to meet Gomolsky, he didn't know, in fact, Gomorsky wanted to see him more than he wanted to see Gomolsky, and he wanted to see Gan Guoyang play a game on the court the most.

The meeting took place in a South Korean barbecue restaurant near the Olympic Village, and Bellman still felt a little "red when he saw Gomolsky, after all, the Soviet Union under Gomolsky had defeated the American team half an hour earlier."

Soon, however, Gomorski, who is proficient in English, had a good conversation with Gan Guoyang and Bellman, because they had the best common language between them - basketball.

The conversation lasted almost two hours, and Gomorski and Gan Guoyang not only talked about Sabonis's transfer, but also talked a lot about basketball insights and ideas.

Gan Guoyang's ideas for the future development of basketball, especially some of his ideas for three-point shooting, made Gomolsky very interested, and Gomolsky's deep basketball knowledge and unique European basketball insights also made Gan Guoyang feel refreshed.

In addition, Bellman is also a basketball maniac, and the three of them chatted so passionately in the barbecue restaurant that they almost forgot about Sabonis.

Gan Guoyang is still sober in the end, and he never forgets to emphasize the various benefits that Sabonis will bring after going to the NBA, the most important of which is that Gan Guoyang "revealed" to Gomorsky that the United States will send real NBA professional players to participate in the Olympics next time, and at that time, if Sabonis is prosperous in the NBA, then the Soviet Union will have more confidence to confront the United States.

Although Gan Guoyang's words were true, he did not dare to "reveal" with Gomolsky that the Soviet Union would not survive for that year, and of course Gomorsky would not believe it, anyway, he would fool Sabonis to the United States first.

At the end of the day, Gomolski said, "Being able to go to the U.S. and take on the challenge is definitely the most important thing in Avedas's destiny, and it will have a huge impact on his basketball career, and he will face a whole new world, and as a basketball worker, I would like to see him take that step." But ......"

Gomolsky's "but" raised Gan Guoyang's heart to his throat.

"Lao Tzu Trail Blazers No. 1 star came all the way for his substitute, if you are a person who doesn't give me a denial, even if Sabonis really comes to the NBA in the future, Lao Tzu will explode once he sees him." Gan Guoyang was also a little unhappy in his heart, he had really done it to the extreme, so extreme that other players said he was a fool, and Barkley ridiculed him as "a loyal fighter of communism, all to expand the power of the socialist camp in the NBA." ”

If Gomorsky can't pass this hurdle, Gan Guoyang will return to the United States, and it is estimated that he will be ridiculed to death by people like Ba Fatzi.

"But...... I can try my best to mediate for Avedas to go to the United States, but whether I want to go to the United States or not, the most important thing is to look at Avedas himself, if he doesn't want to go, then even if I push him, it's useless. In the sense of Gomolski's words, Sabonis himself doesn't seem to be interested in the NBA that way.

Gan Guoyang did not expect that the biggest problem might come from Sabonis himself, indeed, as Gomorsky said, if Sabonis himself did not want to come, even if the Soviet Union and the United States shook hands and jointly defended the earth now, the pioneers would not be able to get him.

"Well, thank you, Mr. Gomorsky, and I think I'll do my best to convince Sabonis if I have the chance to meet with him."

"It's okay after the final, then we won't be playing anymore, to be honest, my players want to see you, I didn't even dare to tell them you were in the stands during the game just now, I'm afraid they will be distracted."

"No problem, when the time comes, I will give him a reason that he can't refuse."