Champion Creed
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868: 288: Lied to you, will not see again (asking for monthly votes!) 868: 288: Lied to you, will not see again (asking for monthly votes!) The recent public opinion has made Michael Gillen feel nervous.

If he could, he’d really like Bill Simmons, that bastard, to keep his mouth shut forever.

It was precisely because of his bullshit article that Roger’s movements next summer became so enigmatic.

His statement, “Roger doesn’t need to endure this crap from the stupid shareholder team because he has the ability to be the best player anywhere,” was practically a morale boost for all the teams in the league.

This sentence is equivalent to telling the entire league: don’t rush into despair, just wait for the foolish shareholder team of the Atlanta Hawks to mess everything up, and you’ll have another chance to own the world’s greatest player.

Seize this opportunity, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

For now, letting go of Big Ben has already had an impact far beyond the expectations of the Hawks shareholder team, and the glory of the dynasty is nothing but a mess of grass.

However, things haven’t gotten completely out of control yet.

At least for now, Roger’s team has not clearly expressed a desire to leave, and both sides have not completely torn apart; there are just some disagreements about Big Ben’s departure.

Michael Gillen and other shareholders at least have a year to use various methods to keep Roger wholeheartedly dedicated to Atlanta.

The Atlanta Hawks are undergoing changes significant enough to alter the team’s history, while other teams continue to make news in the transfer market.

Patrick Ewing’s career is still ongoing; he signed a two-year minimum contract with the Orlando Magic.

The purpose of the Magic’s move is simple: to bolster their horrendous and criminally inadequate inside game, which completely fails to do justice to their perimeter talent.

The Magic’s lineup is like a woman with a perfect figure but an incredibly ugly face — utterly imbalanced.

Their perimeter is very strong, but their inside lineup is simply unpalatable.

So strengthening the inside has been the focus of the Magic’s work this summer.

However, if the Magic management thinks Ewing and the Dream can play the same role, they’re likely to be greatly disappointed.

The Los Angeles Lakers decided to retain their current big three lineup and signed 6-time All-Star guard Mitch Richmond on a one-year minimum contract, once considered the player most like Jordan in the league.

If placed three or four years ago, this would absolutely have been a shocking signing.

At that time, Mitch Richmond was still an All-NBA third team guard, averaging about 20 points per game.

But over the years with the Wizards, Richmond has long lost his Kings flair, and a series of injuries even led the Wizards to spend $10 million to buy out his contract and show him the door.

From being a hope in the Wizards’ rebuilding to being abandoned, Mitch Richmond has fallen into an abyss of despair.

So now Richmond joining the Lakers is quite simple: he hopes to win a ring in the twilight of his career.

From his perspective, after losing Big Ben, the Hawks are no longer the strongest team in the league.

So for a ring, the best choice is to go to Los Angeles.

Seeing these former stars, even superstars, now either taking minimum or mid-level contracts, being kicked around like footballs, is truly lamentable.

Roger hopes he never has such a day.

No matter how glorious a player’s past, people always remember you at your most pathetic.

In Roger’s mind, the perfect career ending should be like Michael Jordan in 1993, leaving the world with an unattainable backdrop, becoming an eternal legend.

He hopes he can achieve that when the time comes.

The operations in the transfer market are still ongoing, and the chaos of divorces and remarriages continues.

After failing to land Bowen, the San Antonio Spurs traded Steve Kerr, Derek Anderson, and the second-round pick in the 2003 draft to the Clippers to get Roger’s former teammate, Steve Smith.

Popovich still plans to use the sharp experience of veterans to challenge the Lakers’ high and unreachable talent.

But these can only be considered minor deals, the real blockbuster trade happened in New Jersey.

The New Jersey Nets traded their franchise player, Stephon Marbury, along with Johnny Newman and Samaki Walker, to the Phoenix Suns to acquire Chris Dudley and the strongest active point guard, Jason Kidd!

The other three guys, whom everyone probably hasn’t even heard of, are just balancing salaries.

You can totally see this trade as a swap between the two marquee players, Marbury and Kidd.

After leaving the Timberwolves, Stephon Marbury achieved a career-high 23.9 points per game last season, but the Nets only won 26 games, putting their attendance as the sixth-worst in the league.

Seeing the distant New York Knicks having a surprisingly bad record yet still thriving, the New Jersey Nets realized they, after all, are not in New York.

So the team decided to make a change.

Coincidentally, Jason Kidd of Phoenix encountered trouble off the court.

Due to some trivial matters, Kidd, following the scandal years ago about competing over women with teammates, got caught up in a domestic violence scandal again.

Although Kidd claimed, “My wife Joumana has constantly subjected me to physical and emotional abuse; our marriage is unfortunate, and she’s extremely cruel to me,” his behavior of domestic violence couldn’t be excused.

Seeing Kidd’s off-court image becoming so bad, the Phoenix Suns decided to send him away.

Thus, this trade was made.

On the night of the trade, Kidd accepted an invitation from ESPN to do a special interview, where he talked about his unfortunate marriage.

However, the focus was still on the upcoming season.