Kevin Johnson certainly remembered the Northern California championship semifinals held in San Jose in 1982.
The overconfident him had claimed he would score 40 points over Gan Guoyang's head.
But during the semifinals, he was completely dominated by Gan Guoyang, who easily scored 40 points and controlled the game.
From that moment on, Kevin Johnson knew that Ah Gan was a player of a higher tier.
Only he didn't realize how much higher, so high that when he just entered the NBA, Gan Guoyang was already a back-to-back champion, a Demon-King-like figure in the league.
Kevin wasn't one of those hot-headed, aggressive Black players.
On the contrary, he was well-mannered, well-educated, and his earlier claim of "scoring 40 points over Ah Gan" was just a bit of fun.
Who knew that Gan Guoyang, this grudge holder, would cling to it until now.
