Chapter 42: Heart Demon

Gan Guoyang hung up the phone and returned to the Willamette University training gym.

The three-hour morning training had ended, but for Gan Guoyang, his training had just begun.

Because he had a game against the Bulls tomorrow, Guoyang wanted to get himself in the best shape possible.

At lunchtime, Guoyang received a pager message from Jordan and immediately found a phone to return his call.

Gan Guoyang had been considering buying a cell phone—the kind referred to at the time as "brick" phones.

The earliest cell phones appeared in 1973, Motorola's mobile cellular phone that weighed two kilograms.

By '83, the first commercial cell phone was available, primarily for businesspeople, especially those in the financial sector.

Such "cell phones" had long charging times, short talk times, and were extremely bulky and inconvenient to carry, not to mention they were expensive, which made them uncommon.