(Please collect it, especially the JRs on the pedestrian street, please collect it.)

When Stu Inman stood in front of the large floor-to-ceiling glass windows of his office, looking at the peaceful Portland in the early morning and the quietly flowing Willamette River, his heart couldn't calm down.

Since the Portland Trail Blazers joined the NBA in 1970, Stu Inman has been working for this young team. He was the team's chief scout, finding the right players and potential rookies for this new team.

He has selected a group of outstanding players such as Jove Patrick, Larry Steele, Lionel Hollins, John Davis, etc. for the Trail Blazers, and has made outstanding contributions to the revitalization and rise of the Trail Blazers.

The most outstanding and best draft pick in his scouting career was the best draft pick in the history of the Trail Blazers, who won UCLA's super center Bill Walton at the 1974 draft.

Although it was almost a foregone conclusion that Bill Walton won the No. 1 pick at the draft that year, the Trail Blazers then relied on a series of drafts to select a group of high-quality young players. In addition to Bill Walton, they won their first NBA championship in 1977.

At that time, they had been in the team for less than 10 years.

Among them, Situ Inman made an indelible contribution, because the five players of this championship team were all the results of the Trail Blazers draft. Larry Steele, the oldest of the five starting players that year, was in the sixth year, while the others were in the third, second year or the watery "Fish" (rookie).

Now, Situ Inman, who has become the general manager of the Trail Blazers, wants to rely on the 1984 draft year to try to reproduce the Portland Miracle in 1977, and the Trail Blazers fanatic.

In the 1982-1983 season last year, the Trail Blazers achieved third place in the West, but were eliminated by the Phoenix Suns in the first round, and their beautiful regular season results were gone.

For this reason, Inman had a major operation on the Trail Blazers this summer. First, he packed last season's main players Calvin Knight, Wayne Cooper, and Fat Liff to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for one of the Nuggets' three shots, Chichi Vanderwich and two draft picks.

He later cut Eddie Jordan, Jeff Lamp, Tom Piotowishki, and Pete Van Horn.

In this way, the original 13-man roster was missing 7 people, and with the Van derwich who had just been traded, there were only 7 players left, only half of the original team.

Faced with such a big vacancy, Inman had to use the draft picks in his hands to fill the team with fresh blood, which is exactly what he wanted to do, relying on the draft to recreate his glory.

Ten years after 1974, in 1984, Portland had a 50% chance of winning another No. 1 pick. If possible, they would win Olajuwon of the University of Houston, making him the second Bill Walton of the Blazers.

But in that destiny, God stood on the side of the Houstonians and handed over the choice of the No. 1 pick to the Rockets.

According to the original historical trajectory, Inman will make the stupidest choice in his life, and be ridiculed by the world for this until he is buried.

But God's gentle wave in 1981 made a Chinese from the other side of the ocean change history, the fate of the pioneers, and the Inman.

In the 1984 draft, Inman finally chose the main center from the 1984 NCAA champion Gonzaga University, betting on the revival of the entire Portland on this Chinese.

Later, Inman, who still holds four draft picks in his hand, selected a group of high-quality rookies in his opinion. Although some of them are too low and no matter how high-quality they are, as long as there is a player who can really play, Inman's choice will be successful.

However, Inman now has to face an extremely difficult problem, that is, the second choice he chose, Portland's hope lies, Gan Guoyang, who is unwilling to sign a contract with Portland.

Unlike some players who are unwilling to play for Portland, and do not propose a deal, but have made a request that no one has ever made: to change the team's team doctor.

In the past, the previous great god Bill Walton also made such a sound, but that was four years after he joined the Trail Blazers, when he had spent more than half of his time on the bed due to injury.

Another No. 1 pick of the Trail Blazers, 1978 rookie Mitchell Thompson, was reluctant to play for Portland because of the team doctor, and even asked for a trade, but he eventually stayed and is still an important main player of the team.

The rookie center has not yet brought any results comparable to Walton and Thompson to the Trail Blazers, and they are quite good at learning from their bad tempers.

This is not good news for Inman. He is already trying his best to let Gan Guoyang's agent Falk persuade the rookie. At the same time, he also started with Gan Guoyang's father and cooperated with General Motors to give him a car, hoping to ease the conflict between the two sides and make Gan Guoyang make a step back.

Yesterday, Gan Guoyang returned to Portland, and Falke called Inman and wanted to talk to Inman today to try to truly finalize the contract so that Gan Guoyang can start the training for the summer training camp with peace of mind.

"Dingling~" Just as Inman was thinking about all kinds of troubles, the phone on his desk rang.

It was a call from the receptionist at the front desk downstairs of the office building, and today's protagonist has arrived.

Yesterday, Gan Guoyang took his father's car to a detached house on 23rd Street northwest Portland, a residence provided by the Trail Blazers for Gan Guoyang and his father, which is much better than staying at the Gan Family Restaurant in San Francisco.

After placing the luggage, Gan Guoyang spent the whole day communicating with Falk about the contract signing, including the special conditions.

In terms of salary contracts, due to the introduction of the salary cap this year, the team can no longer issue large contracts without restrictions, so how to sign a reasonable and appropriate contract price for Gan Guoyang is something that Falke must consider.

Gan Guoyang didn't care much about how much money he made. He handed over all his work to Falk, but he still asked Falk to teach him some knowledge in this area. He wanted to be a hand-off manager, but he didn't want to be kept in the dark.

And Gan Guoyang has also relaxed in his team doctor matters.

He knew that only he could predict the future in this world, and his ability to predict with the change of history will become weaker and weaker. In addition, he is not a master of history, so he can no longer remember many things.

He is not sure whether the Trail Blazers team doctor will continue to cheat people as usual. He proposed this condition to prevent problems before it happens, even if others cannot understand.

Since as a rookie, he proposed such conditions too much, he decided to settle for the second best and hire a private doctor for himself.

If there is any physical problem, if there is no result on the Trail Blazers doctor, please find your own personal doctor.

Of course, he really hoped that his cousin Qian Hui's good friend Shui Miao would be his personal doctor. After that back injury treatment, there were no sequelae until now, and his back was very healthy.

But all this needs to be done step by step after the contract, training and other things are completed.

Therefore, on the next morning, Gan Guoyang drove the car while Gan Youwei. Now Gan Youwei, who has nothing to do, took the initiative to become a driver of Gan Guoyang. He went to the Trail Blazers headquarters on the banks of the Willamette River with Falke and completed the signing of the contract with General Manager Inman.

This is not the first time that Gan Guoyang, a local area in Portland, has come here. In addition to being here to try out before, during college, Gan Guoyang went to Portland with the team to play away, and his opponent was the University of Portland.

Gan Guoyang clearly remembered that he won the double 20 in that game and beat his opponent like cutting vegetables and melons. That year, the University of Portland was also ranked last in the West Coast League.

Portland has a marine climate like Seattle, with a wet and rainy weather, and the road surface is often wet.

Due to the high latitude, the light here is not sufficient, and the whole city seems cold, not as enthusiastic as Los Angeles.

When Gan Guoyang came here, he couldn't help but think that no wonder the players here are easily injured. Such a climate is indeed not conducive to the recovery of injuries.

Looking at this standard and clean and neat American city, Gan Guoyang felt a little complicated. How many years would it take for him to spend here in the future? One year, two years, five years, or ten years?

When Gan Guoyang and Falk arrived at the headquarters in Portland and came to the office of General Manager Inman. When they saw the general manager again, Gan Guoyang couldn't help but think in his mind: "The weather here seems to be not conducive to hair growth."

When Gan Guoyang first saw Yinman, there was not much hair on his forehead. After this summer operations and Gan Guoyang's tossing, the hair on his forehead became increasingly thinner.

"Hello, Gan, we're meeting again. Are you having a good time in Los Angeles?" Inman of course didn't know Gan Guoyang's idea of ​​slapping him in the head, and said to Gan Guoyang very friendly.

"Hello Mr. Inman, I saw the Chinese win the gold medal for the first time in Los Angeles. That feeling was great." Gan Guoyang talked about his experience watching the Olympics.

"Haha, I hope you can win a championship for the Trail Blazers, so we will be happy." Inman said with a smile.

"That's right, but first I want to play for the Trail Blazers, so I need to sign a contract with you." Gan Guoyang quickly talked about the main topic, about the contract.

However, to Inman's surprise, the stagnant negotiations were particularly smooth this time. The two sides quickly reached an agreement on some key issues. Gan Guoyang was also ready to sign the contract and held a press conference in the afternoon to explain the signing issue.

Inman discovered that during the entire conversation, Gan Guoyang did not completely hand over everything to his agent Falke, but expressed his demands more by himself.

This is rare among young people in the NBA, which also made Inman feel that this Chinese is more mature than his peers and his extremely proficient English. His speaking skills are almost the same as that of Groom Albert.

Inman was also thinking in his heart that there would be another trash talk king in the NBA in the future.

"Okay, the stone in our hearts has finally been put down. We will hold another press conference in the afternoon, and then you will be a real Trail Blazers player." Inman was relieved as he saw all the problems solved today. In this way, the Trail Blazers can also feel at ease in the preparations for the 1984-85 season.

"But, Gan, I still want to ask why you insist on changing team doctors? Now you also ask yourself to be equipped with a private doctor. Is it because of Bill Walton?" After solving the big head problem, Inman took off his eyes and asked in a relaxed tone.

While drinking the best coffee, Gan Guoyang was thinking about how to answer. He could not say, "Based on my later experience, many Trail Blazers players will be ruined by injuries, and the team doctor will play the role of villain in it."

"It's Mr. Inman, Bill Walton is just one of the reasons. I have heard that the team has tried out Sam Bowie from the University of Kentucky, and the team doctor has examined him. What is the team doctor's conclusion? Is it good or bad?" Gan Guoyang also asked.

Inman didn't expect Gan Guoyang to raise this question. The Trail Blazers did try out Sam Bowie, but this was more of a smoke bomb and was also their insurance trick.

"We did try Sam Bowie. Although he is excellent, you also know that your performance in the semi-finals completely surpassed him. The team doctor conducted a physical examination on him and said he had no problem." Inman first complimented Gan Guoyang, and then told the situation.

The team doctor's examination at that time said that Bowie was in good health and there was no problem with the game.

"Mr. Inman, we can wait half a season to let Mr. Bowie verify whether the team doctors of our team really play their due role. I believe they are all responsible doctors, but some things cannot be done just by being responsible." Gan Guoyang began to call the Trail Blazers "our team".

As far as Gan Guoyang knows, Bowie will miss a large number of games due to injuries in his first season.

Although because of Gan Guoyang's appearance, Bowei went to Washington and escaped from the clutches of the Trail Blazers, according to the medical level at that time, Bowei, who was 7-foot-1, was likely to have a relatively large potential for injury.

Gan Guoyang still remembers that semi-final match, Sam Bowie, who was fighting against him on the court, his slim calves make people worry about whether they can support such a huge body, and they seem to be broken at any time.

Gan Guoyang's words also made Inman think. In fact, he was a little shaken before this negotiation. He really wanted to give the team's medical system a major change, although it was very troublesome.

Because this is the third rookie with a high pick complaining about the Trail Blazers' medical level, although the team doctors' work is still qualified based on the team's injuries in recent years.

But in the NBA, you don’t know when a team doctor’s fatal mistake can destroy a talented player and then destroy the entire team.

The issue of Gan Guoyang's signing contract was finally settled, and Gan Guoyang also made a step back on the issue of team doctors, but he still stretched the string.

Later, in the news report hall of the home memorial gymnasium in Portland, the Portland Trail Blazers held a press conference for signing the contract with Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang signed his name on the contract on the spot.

Soon, the photo of Gan Guoyang holding the Portland general manager's hand with a smile will make headlines in Portland newspapers, and Gan Guoyang will also become the real star of the city.
Chapter completed!