It's hard to say for sure. Sometimes, factors like low popularity, changing market trends, or issues with the publishing contract could lead to a manga's discontinuation. For Slam Dunk, it might have been a combination of these.
It seems so. There haven't been any new releases for a while, suggesting that they've been discontinued. Maybe it was due to various reasons like low sales or changes in the publisher's strategy.
A thought and a chill was Pan Lang's famous sentence, which came from his "Shang Li Xue Shi." This poem expressed Pan Lang's independent pursuit of fame and fortune, but at the same time, he felt the coldness and loneliness in his heart. The next line of the poem was," It's easy to ascend to heaven in the morning, but it's difficult to be an official in the morning." It meant that under the imperial examination system of the Song Dynasty, it was not easy to be promoted. Pan Lang was a famous hermit and scholar in the early Song Dynasty. His poetic style was similar to that of Meng Jiao and Jia Dao.