Porter listened to the coach and thought, I'm not hardworking, I'm just plain unlucky.
His fate was sealed from the moment he was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1985 draft and settled in Willamette Lake Mountain Park.
At that time, Gan Guoyang lived in a townhouse in Lake Mountain Park, staying with veterans like Vandeweghe and Mychal Thompson.
He was a first-round second overall pick with enough money to buy his own house in Portland.
Not far from the townhouse were the apartments where second-round and late first-round picks of the Trail Blazers lived.
Porter, along with Kolter, Kossie, and others, lived there, very close to the training venues.
When Porter first arrived in Portland, he was filled with confusion about the future, and the best way to break that confusion was to train with Ah Gan.
Back then, young Gan Guoyang would get up every morning to run in Lake Mountain Park. He often ran to the rookie apartments to call everyone up for a warm-up exercise.
