He understands ordinary people better than any genius.
What truly elevated Gan Guoyang to the ultimate realm in the 1997-1998 season was actually the environment.
The environment of the NBA, the environment of the Trail Blazers Team, a place where the sky is high for birds to fly and the sea is vast for fish to leap.
Gan Guoyang was already a bird and a whale; what limited him was not himself, but whether the sky was high enough, whether the sea was wide enough.
In the 1997-1998 season, the entire league was at a turning point where veterans were gradually fading, and newcomers were growing.
Veterans like Olajuwon, Barkley, Ewing, Drexler, and Jordan, Gan Guoyang's old friends and rivals, were all entering the late stages of their careers.
Olajuwon went to the Nets, Barkley stayed with the Heat, and Drexler was about to retire. The teams they belonged to were not as competitive as before.
