Champion Creed
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(Ask for monthly tickets!)_2 Hawks owner Ted Turner was present at the game, as there were two players on the Magic he greatly admired.

By 1988, Ted Turner had already become a big fan of Marciulionis.

For that reason, he invited Marciulionis and other Soviet players to their training camp and arranged a friendly match between the Hawks and the Soviet Union team.

Ultimately, Ted’s sincerity touched Marciulionis, and the day after he won the Olympic gold medal in Seoul, he signed a contract with the Hawks.

However, the signing fell through because the Soviets wouldn’t allow their player to leave, delaying Marciulionis’ NBA debut until 1989.

The second player Turner admired was Roger, as he loved watching the kid play; it was like watching a beautiful hunting show.

So when Roger, with Stevie Smith’s nearly unstoppable touch that night, tenaciously led his team to victory, the Hawks owner nearly jumped out of his seat to applaud Roger.

Really, he nearly did.

If it weren’t for the potential bad impression, he definitely would have.

After all, although it’s somewhat unpleasant to say, he didn’t harbor any expectations for his own team before the game.

Having witnessed a spectacular show, he felt it was worth it.

But after today’s game, Ted Turner could clearly sense the merciless passage of time.

The European talent he once had high hopes for could now only sit idly on the bench, without even a chance to remove his warm-up suit.

Was his career truly over?

With back-to-back 40+ point games, Roger’s performance was incredibly dominant.

In the following three games against the Bullets, Nets, and Celtics, Roger scored 35, 37, and 41 points respectively.

In the first five games of the new season, Roger averaged 40.6 points per game, effortlessly securing the title of Player of the Week for the season’s first week!

Roger’s terrifying scoring ability shocked everyone, even O’Neal hadn’t expected Roger to put out such numbers.

And so…

He actually asked the team for leave to go have fun!

O’Neal’s injury was to his thumb, not his knee—most of the time, the injury didn’t interfere with his movement; he just couldn’t play basketball.

Additionally, with Roger performing so outstandingly, Shaq was comfortably able to extend his vacation.

“Buddy, I’m not going to be at the game against the Bulls, I believe you can handle them,” O’Neal said to Roger over the phone.

Obviously, except for O’Neal, everyone from both teams took the game very seriously.

On one side, the awakened league champions.

On the other, a youth storm averaging 40.6 points per game.

One side, the old rulers who aimed to reclaim the throne.

The other, the young king determined to defend his crown.

This was destined to be a bloody war.

In fact, the war had already begun before the start of the game.

Dennis Rodman, having joined the Bulls this season, got the attention he had always longed for.

Craving the spotlight, he basked in Jordan’s aura and Chicago’s stage, signing endorsement after endorsement, chased by various businesses, with even American supermodel Cindy Crawford coming to the United Center to ask for his autograph on her bra.

This attention thrilled The Worm, making him love the Bulls even more.

Of course, he also appeared on quite a few talk shows.

Three days before the game, while on a talk show in Illinois, Rodman ignited the flames of battle.

“Roger is so damn easy to defend, too fucking easy to defend.

He has no ability to fight back.

Do you know why he doesn’t have a girlfriend?

Because he can’t cut it, and that’s the fundamental difference between him and me.

Last season, Michael had softies like Chris Webber by his side, while I had softies like David Robinson and Sean Elliott by mine.

So, Roger had the chance to score against softer opponents than himself.

But now, he has no chance, because the Chicago Bulls have no softies.

We’ll cut that idiot down like slicing through cake,” Rodman declared with his talk show blasts, filling the air across America with the smell of gunpowder.

Everyone believed this game was going to be hardcore.

The game on November 14th was of such importance that it provoked the soul-crushing question from girlfriends across the United States, “Am I more important, or is the game more important?”

For Chinese student fans, it was a collective cry of, “Teacher, my stomach really doesn’t feel good today.”

Although O’Neal wasn’t playing, it did not diminish the game’s popularity in the slightest.

The game was held at the Magic’s home court, but on the night of the match, the Bulls arrived at the Orlando Arena for warm-up before the Magic did.

After all, the Bulls had lost eight consecutive games to the Magic, and they absolutely could not allow this streak to carry over into the new season.

Michael Jordan would not allow his influence to diminish further.

He vowed that the incident of giving up his hotel room for Roger would never happen again!

Roger, too, was prepared for a tough battle.

If last season’s Bulls had obvious weaknesses, then the two trades made over the summer had clearly revived them to full strength.

Facing such a Bulls team, Roger would certainly not take them lightly.

No need for too much talk when enemies meet, although Rodman’s comments on the talk show created a lot of tension, there was almost no communication between the two sides before the start of the game.

But once the game started, the exchanges became quite frequent.

In the third minute of the first quarter, Jordan scored the game’s first highlight.