Champion Creed-Chapter 922 - 304: Ending? Drowned in one’s own blood! (Requesting monthly votes!)_2

All this means that the spring for other teams is coming.

Mark Cuban believes he must seize this reshuffling opportunity to make the Dallas Mavericks a great team too.

He knows he may not defeat Roger now, but he guarantees the outcome will be settled sooner or later!

While Mark Cuban vowed to break Roger’s reign, Roger was on the phone with Eric Fleisher.

Roger rejected the plan to go to Boston on the call. Boston has enough history, a big basketball market, and the resolve to win championships. Most importantly, they have sufficient salary cap space.

But you never know when Danny Ainge might suddenly trade you away.

Even with Roger’s status, he wouldn’t be easily traded, but dealing with Danny Ainge is certainly exhausting.

Moreover, the city of Boston is not as friendly to minorities as Orlando and Atlanta, though Boston fans today aren’t as bad as they were to Bill Russell back in the day, they aren’t exactly amicable either.

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But it doesn’t help, honestly.

If you’re Asian or Black, you might get stopped and checked even if you’re just driving quietly on a Boston street.

Boston has one of the highest proportions of elderly white residents among American cities, and in such places, no matter how educated people are, some mindsets are deeply ingrained and unchangeable.

Just think about fighting for people who inherently look down on you... Forget it, the Beacon of Freedom is huge, why go somewhere you find repulsive?

Eric Fleisher chuckled; as a white person, he indeed overlooked this aspect of the issue.

So this narrows down the options for choosing a team.

The West Coast is definitely the place most friendly to minorities in the United States, given its later development, where traditional white values aren’t as entrenched.

Plus, high-tech industries have attracted a large influx of immigrants, making the population proportions of various ethnic groups very diverse.

Los Angeles, maybe?

Eric Fleisher needed more time to be certain, as this could be the most important transfer in Roger’s career. A mistake might lower the value of his professional career.

Look how embarrassing it got for Charles Barkley after joining the Rockets, people almost forgot he nearly interrupted Michael Jordan’s three-peat, only remembering his late-career decision to join forces.

And look at Michael Jordan, choosing New York in his last year only to lose to Roger, his reputation plummeted. He lost the moral high ground of "loyalty" and failed to win.

A player’s final career stop must absolutely be the right one.

Before hanging up the phone, Roger seemed to remember something: "Oh, Eric, there’s one thing I must emphasize."

"Go ahead."

"Whether we leave or not in the end, or wherever we go, don’t arrange some TV broadcast to announce it."

Eric Fleisher’s tone was very surprised: "Of course! That would be stupid! Who would want to hype it up like that? Who would broadcast stabbing their old team’s fans in the chest? Why do you think I would make you do this? Hey, I remember you emphasized this last time too, there’s no need to mention it every time, it makes me look dumb! God, nobody in the world could be that foolish!"

Roger laughed: "Don’t be so definitive in your words, Eric."

The next day, Roger appreciated the newspaper headlines about his 64-point explosion in Big D (Dallas’ nickname) before leaving.

Even the local Dallas newspapers couldn’t stand Cuban’s behavior of provoking Roger yesterday.

Roger particularly liked the commentary in the "Dallas Morning News."

"Imagine a strong young man holding back for a month, struggling to find a place to vent. Then, an inconsiderate guy decides to tempt him at that moment, of course, you’ll be in for a night-long thrashing!

I can understand it this way: Mark Cuban’s big mouth ruined Steve and Dirk’s perfect performance last night!"

Although Mark Cuban frantically criticized Roger’s rudeness in the media, so what? As long as Roger can win, he will gain the support of most people.

Thus, after over half a month of failures, the Hawks finally returned to a winning streak mode.

In the following January, the Hawks were strong losing only one game, falling to their arch-enemy in the East this season, the Detroit Pistons.

Though the game had no further conflicts, it was still full of physical confrontation beyond regular-season levels.

You can imagine if the two teams meet in the playoffs, it will definitely be a blood-spattered war.

Losing to the Pistons put Roger in a bad mood, but the coming February was brilliant. The Hawks achieved their first perfect month of the season.

During this time, the Hawks avenged the Pistons and defeated the Lakers, bringing joy to both Atlanta fans and Roger.

Although February, due to the All-Star break and its inherent short length, has the fewest games among all months.

But a perfect record is still brilliant.

However, what concerns Roger is that even when defeating the Pistons this time, the Hawks only won by 6 points.

The Pistons’ defense is truly suffocating, now Roger understands why the 2005 NBA Finals originally had such low viewership, because playing against the Pistons makes scoring really difficult.