CASE 001: HOMETOWN BLUES (pt. 3)

The Test

Years later, designing websites for players in the league - a flashy guard, a big man who walked away from his contract mid-season - an opportunity surfaced through one of them: potential work with the franchise's most heated conference rival, the team he had spent decades training himself to hate, the rivalry that defined the era he grew up watching. He needed two to three days to think about it. Not because the offer was complicated. Because thirty years of conditioned identity doesn't dissolve when you decide it should.