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Chapter 187 The Magical 60s ***** (5/12)

It has been almost 7 years since Wei Xia first entered the old time.

It can be said that he has witnessed the same year, youth and college years as Haflicke.

He cannot control what time he entered the old time. Sometimes, the days pass faster. Before he entered the NBA, the interval between his two entry into the old time is often about ten days.

Since he entered the NBA, everything has slowed down.

This was the first time he was "reversing" in his old days.

He actually returned to October 30, 1962, and he remembered that the last time he came to the old time was early November.

On October 30th, it happened to be on the trip to St. Louis...

He is sensitive to this period and to this location.

If he remembers correctly, today is the day when the Celtics play the St. Louis Hawks away, and he played six times in the arena.

The reason why he played six times in the same game was because he wanted to change the outcome of the game.

The failure of six attempts means that the Celtics should lose this battle.

Wei Xia didn't think there would be anything special today, so she traveled over and talked to the big guys about life and training as usual.

Sam Jones sat next to Weisha.

Today's era is an era when white people can talk to black people at will. Racial discrimination is not a red line that no one dares to touch. The biggest problem is between race prejudice and hatred.

Auerbach does not allow discrimination and hatred on his team, so he will let white players sit with black players.

Russell and Cousy are paired with Cousy, Haflicecke and Jones, K.C. Jones and Tom Heinthorne are paired with, Tom Sanders and Frank Ramsey are paired with.

"Sam, why don't you squint your eyes and look for beautiful girls?" k.c Jones asked jokingly.

Sam Jones looked horrified: "Do you want me to eat a gun? This is St. Louis, and they don't even allow whites and blacks to live in the same street!"

Wei Xia asked curiously: "Why?"

"Because this is St. Louis!" Sam Jones answered vaguely.

In the era in which Weisha was, there was nothing special about St. Louis.

"What's wrong with St. Louis?" Wei Xia acted like a fool who turned a blind eye to the window.

"You don't know that the racial problem here is very sharp?" Heinthorne, the other seat, looked over in surprise.

In 1916, St. Louisians voted to pass a “reform” decree that prohibited anyone from buying housing in a neighborhood that was occupied by more than 75% of other races. Citizen leaders opposed the proposal, but it passed by a two-thirds majority, becoming the first referendum in the United States to impose apartheid on housing issues. The following year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Buchanan v. Warley (bu                                                                                                                                                                                                      �

This contract was not illegal until 1948 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer, a case originating from St. Louis.

The law cannot stop people from their hearts, and people living in St. Louis spontaneously isolated each other.

Whites live in the north, while blacks live in the dirty and smelly south.

Any black man who dares to cross the line will be subject to extreme discrimination and fatal attacks.

Many black people who moved to the north were shot by crazy whites, and that's why Sam Jones said he didn't want to eat a gun.

As the black equality movement prevailed in the 1960s, the isolation policy in St. Louis became more and more extreme. Whites not only discriminated against black people, but were more worried that their entry would lead to depreciation of properties in their areas.

There are many advantages and interests of resistance at the spiritual level to resistance at the physical level and then to resistance at the economic level. Any black man who wants to move into a white community must make a will for himself in advance.

Bill Russell said: "I think this policy is good. At least the niggers will not work hard to find shit on the ground when they go home after working hard... Hehehe!"

He tells his experience seriously and then ends with Russell-like magical laughter.

Not many people are funny, mainly because his laughter is very horrible.1.

When the bus arrived, they experienced something unsatisfactory.

At this time, the NBA team did not sign cooperation terms with the hotels on the away game, so the hotels to stay in the away game are often changed.

The hotel in St. Louis told the Celtics that they did not accept nigger customers recently, and only the whites on the team could settle in.

Auerbach negotiated with them for a long time and finally ended the negotiations with hot swear words.

"Let's go, we can always find a place to stay!" Auerbach roared.

Even if this hotel is not the best in St. Louis, it is one of the best. The Celtics can contact training grounds nearby and it is convenient to get to and from the competition hall. Suddenly, the team's plans are messy. They need to spend more time looking for the hotel. It is hard to say whether they can prepare for the game in the best state.

Wei Xia now knows why the Celtics were in poor form that night's game, and the problem was off the court.

On the bus, Auerbach scolded the Hawks.

He believed that this was the Eagles' off-the-scene move, so they could not make pre-match deployments and might not even be able to do training.

His suspicion is reasonable and it is the home court of the Eagles, and they are mortal enemies. It is not difficult to connect with hotels that have contact with the Celtics. In this city where racial discrimination is prevalent, giving them some benefits can make them tear up the agreement with the Celtics.

In order to find a hotel, the Celtics spent an extra hour.

They were forced to head to the black community in the south.

This is also a difficult challenge for the whites in the team. The whites in the local area hate blacks. Don’t blacks hate whites?

"Are we really going to live here?" Ramsey didn't discriminate against black people, he was just afraid.

Heinthorne lit a cigarette and spit out a cloud-like smoke, "Do we have any choice?"

Bob Cousy took the lead in getting out of the car, and white sports stars of his level, local black people could not see once in their lifetime.

He smiled, nodded to the onlookers, and then took his luggage into the hotel without showing any unhappiness.

Russell's appearance sparked cheers from residents.

In the eyes of black people, Russell is not just a successful NBA player. He has received much more respect in the black world than Wilt Chamberlain. To put it bluntly, Chamberlain is a white man in black skin. Russell is not the case. He has been fighting discrimination all his life. Even during the season, if there are any discrimination incidents that require him to come forward, he will appear on the front line to block the gun.

Weisha was as nervous as Ramsey, and they followed Russell's pace and quickly entered the hotel.

The waiters inside were all black people, and they had clear hostility towards Wei Xia and others.

Wei Xia did not make any requests, as long as he could live in someone.

Since there are no gyms nearby, Auerbach lets players gather in his room and they will head to the home of the Hawks, St. Louis Arena, two hours in advance.

Go ahead and warm up fully before the game starts to find the feel.

Everyone has no objection.

However, it still miscalculated.

Since they can arrange for the hotel to refuse you to check in, of course they can also contact the gymnasium people before the game starts.

At 7 pm, the Celtics went to the St. Louis Arena and wanted to enter the court early to warm up, but were told that the Arena would only be open 30 minutes before the game started.

However, many spectators had already walked in front of Auerbach with tickets.

"How do they calculate?" Auerbach asked in anger.

"They are local residents and white people." The bastard at the door wrote "I just deliberately beat you up" on his face, "This rule is only valid for outsiders."

This is an unreasonable era. Without league control, each team has constant off-field moves, so don’t say that Auerbach is despicable. If you don’t disgust others, others will disgust you. Isn’t the reason why Auerbach is not famous because he is the most successful among the people who use off-field moves?

He is the most successful, but not the only one. The other teams are not Little White Rabbit, and no one is qualified to blame anyone.

Auerbach angrily told the players that they could not enter the stadium, and the only thing they could do now is to see if there are parks nearby or something to run.

Wei Xia was often refreshed by things in the 1960s. He thought it was amazing enough to call a black nigger casually, but he didn't expect that there were still these things.

Not staying in a good hotel, not providing training grounds, and even being in advance for scouting may be prohibited.

They did not find a park that provided them with warm-up, and had to go back to the bus to rest.

Wei Xia thought that his old journey to this day ended, so he slept on the bus.

However, consciousness did not take him into the arena.

An hour later, he was woken up by Sam Jones and they were about to enter the game.

Wei Xia was confused and realized that he seemed to have the opportunity to play in the old time today? This changed his understanding of the rules. He thought that all he had experienced in the old time was daily affairs. He had to go to the pure black world to play games, but today it was completely different...

October 30, 1962, Celtic vs. Eagles, St. Louis, today?

1 Recommended everyone to watch the previous part of the 2008 Green Kai Champion documentary. Russell also interviewed him when he came. As he chatted, he suddenly laughed. The first time I saw someone’s laughter can have a reggae effect. It’s like the combination of the magical laughter of Grand Sima and PDD. The most exaggerated thing is that when he laughed, something seemed to be stuck in his throat, which made his weird laugh sound hoarse and uncomfortable.
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