Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 101 Racial Image
The TV broadcast of the NBA in the 80s is not like the 21st century. There is a scoreboard in the corner of the TV screen. Whenever a player makes a goal, this number will change, which can reflect the scores of the two teams in real time.

The scoreboard at this time is two lines of numbers showing the score, and it will appear on the screen at regular intervals, which is equivalent to subtitles.

Such benefits, of course, are low-tech and low-cost.

But such disadvantages are even more obvious, directly causing the audience to often forget the point difference and time when they are involved in the game, just like now.

It wasn't until the 51:51 subtitles appeared that everyone in the room woke up, and the first half was over.

"This West is so strong! He can shoot from such a distance." After a long time, the young man who went to call Barack sighed, and at the same time expressed everyone's aspirations.

"Yeah! This guy is always good at shooting. After shooting all night, I didn't expect that a yellow-skinned person can play basketball!" Another echoed.

Since, at this time, it has entered the TV commercial, the discussion about Li Weisi became heated for a while.

"How many points did West score in the first half?"

"It should be 19, no, it's 22 points and 8 assists!"

"What about Michael?"

"It should be 28 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists!"

"Okay, his statistics are not much worse than Michael's! It's really hard to imagine that he's still a rookie."

"No, Jordan is the best. He is far behind Jordan."

"..."

Barack didn't join the discussion, and even felt that the room was a bit noisy, so he got up and walked out of the house, looking a bit out of place.

Looking at the dilapidated small courtyard, Barack has become accustomed to it. He has been here for more than a year, and he has long known that his compatriots don't care about his own courtyard at all.

Leaning against the wall, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his body, lit it and stuffed it into his mouth.

Although he is black, he is a genuine high-achieving student. He graduated from Columbia University with a major in International Relations and worked on Wall Street. However, that kind of work experience made him deeply feel the discrimination brought about by his skin color.

In the end, I quit that job and chose to come here, wanting to do something for compatriots with the same skin color as myself.

But now it seems that this is really too difficult. There are many deep-seated problems in society, such as the gap between the rich and the poor, racial conflicts, etc. It is just a dream to change it with only a small person like him.

However, just a while ago, when he went to work in the city government, he overheard two white staff members talking about Jordan, which aroused Barack's interest.

Barack was a basketball fan, the obsessive kind, and it was basketball that saved his life.

He fell for a period of time in middle school, thanks to his obsession with basketball, he was able to let go of the past for basketball. He even joined the school team in high school. With his good jumper skills, he even won a "bomber". Pull the nickname.

Of course, it is obvious that this bomber is not gold.

Through the chat between the two government staff, Barack realized that in the competitive sports atmosphere of basketball, achieving good results can even make fans ignore the color of their skin.

If this is the case in basketball, isn't it also the case in other fields?
At this moment, Barack's already somewhat discouraged spirit regained his fighting spirit again, which made Barack decide to persevere for the ideal in his heart again.

Therefore, Jordan is not just a basketball icon for Barack.

But just now, through this game, Barack suddenly realized that the Asian Jordan seems to have appeared

"Barack, Barack! Hey, why are you here? The game is about to start." The young man appeared next to Barack again.

"The game is starting? Didn't I just..." Looking at the three cigarette butts under my feet, each cigarette burns at a different speed depending on the material. The normal burning speed of my camel is about 3 minutes, and the time can be shortened if I smoke it myself. To about 10 minutes, 6 cigarettes, that is 3 minutes.

Barack immediately realized that he was too engrossed in his thoughts to stay there for so long.

"Why are you still standing there? Let's go!" As he said that, the young man with no name was about to reach out and pull Barac into the room.

"Oh, good!" Barack didn't refuse, and let the young man pull himself into the room.

Back in the house, just in time for the end of the advertisement, the camera was staring at Cunningham's big face, allowing Cunningham to talk freely.

"What did you do, Barack?"

"Smoking!" Barack replied.

"Why go out to smoke, we don't dislike it!"

After making fun of Barack, everyone ignored him and turned to the TV, because the second half started.

And Barack quickly sat back in his seat. He wanted to witness the first confrontation between these two great players who could change the image of race.

At the beginning of the second half, players from both sides returned to the court. Unlike the first half, both sides adjusted their lineups in the second half.

First of all, the Warriors continued to use Rodman on the court. In addition to the injury factor, Nelson obviously also recognized Rodman's defense.

On the Bulls' side, Paxson was also allowed to replace Colt in the game. Obviously Collins also liked Paxson's performance in the first half in 10 minutes.

At the beginning of the game, the two sides engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat, and it became extremely difficult to score.

This time, Rodman almost hugged Jordan from the beginning, defending from without the ball to having the ball, and then defending until Jordan scored the ball.

It seems to have no effect, but it actually consumes a lot of physical energy for Jordan. In addition, Jordan took a 2-minute rest in the first half.

From the style of play, it is the rapid breakthrough in the first half, and then throwing himself in the air in the penalty area to score the ball has been reduced a lot. Instead, Jordan increased his mid-range shots, but The hit rate cannot be guaranteed, and at the same time, it does little damage to the Warriors' defensive formation.

On the other hand, there is no such situation in the Warriors. Whether it is Malone, Li Weisi or Mullin, they have all been fully rested, and their technical movements have not changed.

The result of this is not obvious enough in a short period of time, but as time goes by, it will slowly begin to be reflected in the score difference.

The Warriors overtook the score from the very beginning, then went to 3 points, 5 points, and when Li Weisi came to the regular rest time again, the Warriors had already led by 7 points.

The balance of victory began to tilt in favor of the Warriors.

It's just that Jordan definitely won't just admit defeat like this, and soon he found an opportunity to break the current situation, that is, the number of fouls committed by Rodman.

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