The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 323 - 184: Request for Urine Test? _3

Chapter 323: Chapter 184: Request for Urine Test? _3

The Championship MVP speech turned into Su Wan’s stage to vent.

His words would be enough to make Dallas the laughing stock of the entire United States tomorrow.

His last sentence was a gift to Indiana, "This is the second Championship Trophy I promised you, and trust me, the Pacers will soon have their third!"

The remaining Dallas locals in the audience were absolutely convinced, imagining the jubilant celebrations in unseen Bolis.

Their hearts felt sour.

Content, Su Wan exited the stage, but just as he entered the players’ tunnel, he saw a public relations manager with a suspicious look, flanked by several others in uniform.

"What?" Su Wan asked curiously.

The public relations manager pulled him aside and said, "Damn Mark Cuban has teamed up with several other team owners, pressuring the League for you to be drug tested. By the time we got the news, they were already here."

Su Wan laughed, "Why are you all so nervous? You think there’s something else in my urine?"

He wasn’t nervous or surprised at all.

It was just too typical of Mark Cuban.

Many fans say Cuban is the most humane owner in the NBA.

But actually, bullshit!

The little humanity he had left was given to Nowitzki.

Their story is quite wonderful, but what does it have to do with other players?

Besides this story, there’s not much else good to say about Cuban; he is the owner with the most fines in the NBA, and mostly because he wants to pressure the League with his comments off the court.

Last season during the playoffs between the Mavericks and the Rockets, he even sent videotapes to the president’s office, demanding strict fouls against Yao Ming.

These sneaky tactics just show he doesn’t care about anyone else.

Now trying to use a drug test to bother Su Wan—how could Su Wan be surprised?

However, it was a good opportunity...

Dallas fans had been racially insulting him these past few days; a simple throat-slitting gesture wasn’t enough to calm his feelings. Su Wan decided that in future encounters with the Mavericks, he’d really show them what he was made of.

But for someone who doesn’t put off revenge, it was still stifling.

Unexpectedly, Cuban had delivered himself right to his doorstep.

He shouted to the reporters nearby:

"Mark Cuban suspects I used stimulants. These are League investigators. I will cooperate with the investigation, I have nothing to hide!"

"But I really want to know, why me?"

"Over the years, many players have performed outstandingly in the finals. Far be it from me to bring up historical players like Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal... they all had superhuman performances in the finals, yet I never saw Mark Cuban requesting drug tests for them!"

"Given what I’ve experienced these past few days in Dallas, I clearly understand what kind of city this is, and I believe you do too, which is why I suspect Mark Cuban has a severe racial bias. He discriminates against us international players, thinking we can’t perform like this on the finals stage!"

"Also, I am disappointed that the League agreed to his request. David Stern, the great President, do you also think that international players can only excel in the finals by using stimulants?"

"The League carries out drug tests at specific times every year, and I’ve never had a problem with my tests, so I need more than a mere light-hearted apology from you!"

After speaking, he nonchalantly followed the League investigators to provide a urine sample.

Afterward, he called Bill Duffy and the Nike representative, reiterating, "I don’t want this to end with just a light-hearted apology. Since he wants a fuss, I’ll give him a good one."

Both parties understood Su Wan’s intent and immediately started preparing through their channels to ignite a media battle the next day.

The Nike representative even explicitly stated, "Don’t worry, we can ensure that even if Mark Cuban doesn’t disappear from this League, we’ll strip a layer off him—and the League needs someone to answer for this too!"

No joke, the current Su Wan was not last year’s Su Wan.

After grabbing the final MVP last year, he was only the next "Magic Johnson."

But now it’s different; he made two "all-time firsts" his own.

Whether it was receiving the finals MVP in the first two years of his rookie season or capturing four major MVPs in one season, all these had elevated Su Wan’s importance to Nike by several levels—to say he’s Nike’s "leader for the next decade" was by no means an exaggeration.

Moreover, this also touched on Nike’s personal brand image.

Dragging Su Wan into a drug test was like indirectly slandering Nike for having signed a drug-using player.

Even though this isn’t uncommon in the United States’ sports circles, particularly in athletics and swimming teams where seven out of ten are determined asthmatics, in the NBA circle under David Stern, "strict measures" are always enacted, and Nike naturally wouldn’t let their spokesperson endure this type of impact.

If they let this issue be brushed off lightly, it might look fine now, but who knows if in the future a "historical record" could emerge, making Su Wan a suspect for using stimulants.

That’s why Su Wan wanted to blow the issue up.

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