My question is about Steve Francis he was orginally drafted by the Vancouver Grizzlies but he chose not to play in Vancouver does anyone know the reasons?

This happened when I was young and when I didn't live in the Vancouver Area
I think it was because he didn't wanna play for a loser, didn't like the city(even though it is considered one of the greatest cities on Earth) and then I thought its 1 percent Black Community maybe he wanted to play infront of more of his people but I live in Surrey B.C the CAR Jacking Capital of North America lol
which is 30 mins away and
Surrey had a 30 percent Indian(punjabi),35 percent White and a 15 percent Black population which is not bad

but does anyone no the real reason
if i souned racist or called him a racist i dun mean to
cuz im 3/4 punjabi and 1/4 black