You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 188 The Magic of the 60s (512)

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

It can be said that he has witnessed Havlicek's same age, youth and college time all the way.

He can't control when he enters the old time, sometimes, the days pass faster.Before he entered the NBA, the interval between his two entry into the old time was often about ten days.

Since he entered the NBA, things have slowed down.

This is the first time he has "turned back" in the old days.

He actually went back to October 1962, 10. He remembered that the last time he came to the old time was early November.

October 10th, just in time for the trip to St. Louis
He is sensitive to the period and sensitive to the place.

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

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

Six attempts were unsuccessful, indicating that the Celtics deserved to lose this battle.

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

Sam Jones sat next to Wesha.

Today's era is an era where white people can call black people what they want. Racial discrimination is not a red line that no one dares to touch. The biggest problem is interracial prejudice and hatred.

Auerbach didn't allow discrimination and hatred on his team, so he sat white players with black players.

Russell and Cousy, Havlicek and Jones, KC Jones and Tom Heinsohn, Tom Sanders and Frank Ramsey.

"Sam, why don't you squint your eyes to find beautiful girls anymore?" KC Jones asked jokingly.

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

Wei Xia asked curiously, "Why?"

"Because it's St. Louis!" replied Sam Jones vaguely.

St. Louis was nothing special in Wescha's day.

"What happened to St. Louis?" Wei Xia acted like an idiot who didn't hear anything out of the window.

"Don't you know that the racial issue here is very acute?" Heinsohn from the other building looked over in surprise.

In 1916, St. Louisians voted for a "reform" ordinance that prohibited anyone from buying a home in a neighborhood that was more than 75 percent other races.Civic leaders opposed the proposal, but it passed with a two-thirds majority, making it the first U.S. referendum to desegregate housing.After the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Buchanan v. Warley made the ordinance illegal the following year, some St. Louisians reinstated the racial compact, requiring every family in a block or community to sign a legal document pledging never to sell their home to a black person.

Such contracts were not made illegal until the 1948 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelley v. Kraemer, which originated in St. Louis.

Laws could not stop popular sentiment, and people living in St. Louis spontaneously separated themselves from each other.

White people live in the north where the environment is good, and black people live in the dirty and smelly south.

Any black man who dared to cross the line was met with extreme discrimination and fatal attacks.

A lot of black people who moved north were shot by crazy white people, which is why Sam Jones said he didn't want to be shot.

With the prevalence of black affirmative action in the 60s, the segregation policy in St. Louis became more extreme.Whites not only discriminate against blacks, but also worry that their presence will lead to the depreciation of real estate in their areas.

There are many advantages and disadvantages from spiritual resistance to physical resistance, and then to economic resistance. 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 won't work hard outside and come home to find that his door has been splashed with shit. Hehehe!"

He narrated his experience seriously, and then ended with Russell-style magic laughter.

Not many people find it funny, mainly because his laughter has a terrifying effect⑴.

When the bus arrived, they experienced another unsatisfactory experience.

At this time, the NBA team has not signed cooperation terms with the hotels of each away game, so the hotel where they go to the away game is often changed.

The St. Louis hotel informed the Celtics that they were not accepting nigger clients these days, only whites from the team.

Auerbach negotiated with them for a long time, and finally ended the negotiation with fiery expletives.

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

This hotel is one of the best, if not the best, in St. Louis.The Celtics can contact the training ground nearby, and it is also convenient to travel to and from the competition hall.The team's plan was completely messed up when they were suddenly denied accommodation. They needed to spend more time looking for a hotel, and it was hard to say whether they would be able to prepare for the game in the best condition.

Wei Xia now knows why the Celtics were in a bad state in the game that night, and the problem lies outside the court.

On the bus, Auerbach cursed the Eagles.

He decided that this was an off-the-chart move by the Eagles, and asked them to live in a garbage hotel. They couldn't do pre-game deployment, and maybe they couldn't even do training.

His suspicion is well-founded. This is the home court of the Eagles, and they are mortal enemies. It is not difficult to contact the hotel that has contacts with the Celtics to tear up the contract.In a city where racism is rampant, a little favor can get them to tear up the deal with the Celtics.

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

They were forced to travel to black communities on the South Side.

This is also a difficult challenge for the whites in the team. The local whites hate blacks. Don't blacks hate whites?
"Are we really going to live here?" Ramsey didn't discriminate against blacks, he was just afraid.

Heinsohn lit a cigarette and exhaled a cloud of smoke, "Do we have any other choice?"

Bob Cousy took the lead to get out of the car. A white sports star of his level was rarely seen by the local blacks in their lifetime.

With a smile on his face, he nodded to the onlookers of the black residents, and then entered the hotel with his luggage, without showing any displeasure.

The appearance of Russell sparked cheers from the residents.

In the eyes of blacks, Russell is not just a successful NBA player, he is respected far more than Wilt Chamberlain in the black world.To put it bluntly, Chamberlain is a white man in black.Russell is different. He has been fighting against discrimination all his life. Even during the season, if there is any discrimination incident that requires him to come forward, he will appear on the front line to stop the gun.

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

The waiters inside are all black, and they have clear hostility towards Wei Xia and others.

Wei Xia didn't make any demands, as long as he could live there.

With no stadiums nearby, Auerbach told the players to gather in his room and they would head to St. Louis Arena, the Eagles' home stadium, two hours early.

If you go early, you can fully warm up before the start of the game and find the feel.

Everyone has no objection.

Yet it was a miscalculation.

Since people can arrange for the hotel to refuse you to stay, of course they can also contact the people in the stadium to prevent people from entering before the game starts.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the Celtics went to the St. Louis Arena and wanted to warm up early, but were told that the arena was only open 30 minutes before the start of the game.

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

"How do they count?" Auerbach asked while suppressing his anger.

"They are local residents, and they are white." The bastard at the gate simply wrote "I'm trying to trick you" on his face. "This rule is only valid for foreigners."

This is an unreasonable era. There is no control by the league, and the teams are constantly playing tricks off the court, so don't say that Auerbach is mean. If you don't disgust others, others will disgust you.Wasn't Auerbach's notoriety the result of being the most successful of those outsiders?
He is the most successful, but not the only one. Other teams are not little white rabbits, and no one has the right to blame anyone.

Auerbach angrily told the players that they could not enter the arena, and the only thing they could do now was to see if there was a park or something nearby.

Wei Xia is often refreshed by things in the 60s. He thought it was amazing enough to call a black man a nigger casually, but he didn't expect these things to exist.

If you don’t stay in a good hotel, don’t provide a training venue, you may even be banned from arriving at the venue in advance.

They didn't find a park that provided them with a warm-up, so they had to go back to the bus to rest.

Wei Xia thought that his trip to the old time today was over, and he fell asleep on the bus.

Awareness, however, didn't take him into the arena.

An hour later, he was woken up by Sam Jones, and they were going into the game.

Wei Xia realized in a daze that he seemed to have a chance to play in the old days today?This changed his understanding of the rules. He thought that in the old days, he only experienced daily affairs, and he had to go to the pure black world to play games, but today is completely different.
October 1962, 10, Celtics vs. Hawks, St. Louis, today?

⑴I recommend everyone to watch the first part of the 08 Green Kai champion documentary. When KG came, Russell even went to interview him. While chatting, he suddenly laughed. It was the first time I saw someone’s laughter can have a reggae effect.It's like a combination of Da Sima and PDD's magical laughter.The most exaggerated thing is that when he laughed, there seemed to be something stuck in his throat, which made his weird laugh sound hoarse and uncomfortable.

PS: That’s right, Wish has a game from the 60s next, but this game didn’t give him any abilities. It’s about 3-4 chapters long, like an immersive experience game.Because it is not necessary, it will break the rhythm at this juncture, I want to skip it, and post it in the form of a special episode in the future, so here, if you think it can be posted as usual, if you don’t mind, just leave this chapter in my passage. (If you agree with more than 30 articles in this chapter, I will update normally, and if you don’t exceed it, skip it. In addition, disagreement is also an opinion. I hope that everyone who agrees or disagrees will post this chapter in this paragraph)

　When the * at the end of the chapter reaches 5, it means that the whole article is the content of the old time-look, how much I think about you, those who don’t want to read this part can skip it, it does not affect the main text.After I have reminded so much, I hope that all genuine readers will not complain in the book review area that the old times are incomprehensible, boring, and don’t want to read, the author Shabi—after all, I am the same
　　
　
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