Chapter 28 The Irritable Sabonis

Although Sabonis is quite low-key off the court and appears honest and simple beside Gan Guoyang,

on the basketball court there are no real honest people, it's all relative.

Compared to ordinary people, NBA basketball players are a bunch of irritable and even more irritable people, with a portion being fiercely competitive.

People like Gan Guoyang, who are measured in their actions but genuinely hot-headed—how else could they start throwing punches when words fail, and not just for show?

Sabonis also had his moments of rage. In the 1986 European Champions Cup final, before his major injury, during the game between Žalgiris (Lithuania) and Cibona (Croatia), a Cibona player got into a physical conflict with a Žalgiris player during a fast break counterattack and elbowed him.

At that moment, Sabonis charged at the Cibona player like a truck and sent him flying with a punch (4).