[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-golden-age-of-basketball":3,"chapter-the-golden-age-of-basketball-the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1931":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Golden Age of Basketball",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1445298,1896,"Chapter 1931 19: Where the Dream Began (Part 2)","the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1931",1931,"\u003Cp>But as the saying goes, coming without going is not polite, Gan Guoyang plans to find some time to teach this fat man a lesson, so he can be more restrained on TV.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the future, let Grandpa stop watching TV all the time. Spend more time with him, play chess or something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dad, have you really become bad at this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course not. Dad is still quite good, just not as good as before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could it be because your teammates are too bad?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as these words came out, the entire locker room burst into laughter, though there was a hint of awkwardness in the laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's said that children speak without barriers, so of course no one would blame Gan Wenyi for saying such things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But likewise, when a kid says such things, it must be because they heard others say it; she doesn't really grasp the concept herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, all the major sports media, as well as the local media in Las Vegas, are criticizing Gan Guoyang's teammates for being too weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The team should cherish Gan Guoyang's prime, make trades, and gather some skilled veterans to form a strong team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Gan Guoyang has clarified many times that he believes the current lineup is good and full of potential, and everyone should have patience to watch the team grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But fans watch games certainly for the pleasure of winning, and only a small number of people have the patience to watch rookies grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, in a place like Las Vegas, the local population is small, and many fans are tourists, making Glory's home games a local tourist attraction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most tourists wish for the home team to win, so Glory performs better at home than away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The games won so far have mostly been at home; only one was won away, against the Clippers in Los Angeles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Winning against Clippers is basically considered a giveaway, not really a win by yourself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, everyone is improving, just not as quickly. It's like you're learning; you can't just attend one day and understand all the knowledge. You need to study for a long time and only at the end-of-term exams will you know your results, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So when is your end-of-term exam?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Playoffs, in another five months.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Gan Guoyang, watching the players of Glory team grow is just like watching his own children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this is truly his team, belonging to him in the real sense, not like Portland Trail Blazers, where he is a symbol and totem, but Trail Blazers are ultimately not his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, as time goes by, Portland's crime rate is getting higher, and city construction increasingly resembles Los Angeles, sprawling outward like a pancake, making Gan Guoyang less familiar with this city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Portland he remembers most vividly remains in the 80s, the era when players could stroll the streets with fans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Portland once relied on community after community for its city foundation, with a very rich community culture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gan Guoyang still keeps in touch with neighbors from the Oswego Lake Mountain Park Community, even though he has become such a big star, he always retains his ordinary side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the city develops, Portland's communities are gradually disappearing because the foundation for community survival was industrial enterprises, numerous real-world industries, and dense transportation routes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nowadays, Portland is developing towards finance, high technology, entertainment, and sports, akin to so-called Los Angeles-style development, with capital becoming more concentrated but the real-world industry population shrinking; industries have moved to other regions or even other countries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, there was once a huge footwear industry in the Portland region, nurturing giants like Nike and Avia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with globalization, their factories have all moved to China, where there are lower labor costs and stronger manufacturing capabilities, helping Nike and Avia become global sports goods giants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, if you walk through Portland's streets, aside from advertisements, you won't see anything related to the sneaker industry: factory buildings, raw material production, etc., are no longer here, possibly even design studios aren't here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the brain of the headquarters, a profit concentrate, but its body has dispersed around the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the current state of Nike, Avia, of Portland, and of America; as China joins the WTO, this process will accelerate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of Portland, Gan Guoyang flipped through the calendar, realizing the days until his first game back in Portland are very near.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing tonight's game, the next one is against Jordan in Seattle, and the one after that is back to Portland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he often tells his family that Portland is no longer suitable for him, and it feels unfamiliar there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since the first game of the new season began, Gan Guoyang has been mentally calculating when he'll return to Portland to play against the Trail Blazers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As time gradually approaches, his emotional waves inside grow more intense, and his spoken excuses sound more like a cover-up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying his daughter out of the locker room and sending her to the stands, Gan Guoyang said to her, \"Dad is going back to Portland in a few days. It's just right on Saturday, do you want to come along and visit your brother?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gan Wenyi pouted, \"No, brother doesn't come to see me either.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think he's having too much fun in Portland, how about we go over and sort him out together?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How to sort?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take Mom with us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father and daughter reached an agreement, regardless of Mom and brother's feelings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hours later, Glory team faces off against the Phoenix Suns at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the start of this season, the Suns were full of ambition, ready to compete with the many Western Conference powerhouses for dominance.\u003C\u002Fp>",952,"2026-06-06T01:42:08.816Z",1,"novelbin.me","6f0ae193fc0b041ce4b6373efa2eb53c16ebff5a57d1c9a869b357102403a3f3","the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1932","the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1930",2033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-golden-age-of-basketball-cover.jpg"]