Chapter 25 Reform

In November 1989, the Berlin Wall was brought down.

The symbolic structure that represented isolation and opposition during the Cold War era had collapsed, and the Iron Curtain that had fallen between the East and West after World War II was being destroyed and disintegrated.

The countries of Eastern Europe all began to implement reforms; Europe, and indeed the entire world, was undergoing a dramatic transformation.

In the NBA, change was happening as well.

One week into the 1989-1990 season, teams' average scores had fallen below 108 points.

Ever since the 1976-1977 season when team averages exceeded 108 points, scores had consistently stayed between 108 and 110 points.

In Guoyang Gan's first year in the League, the 1984-1985 season reached the 1980s' high of 110.8 points, but then it declined year by year.

The NBA was gradually entering an era of slower pace.