that happened more than eight weeks before the CBA draft. “I told him that college was the road to the pros. He and his mother seemed set on going the pro way.”
This would be at roughly the same time that Wright and his mother were being set up for the summer with the ABA Silverbacks.
The Shirt Off Their Silverbacks
“We brought the kid in here,” recalled the Silverbacks’ Weir. “We signed him July 27th. My coach drove up to Syracuse…[and] brought him to try out. We talked to the young man, tried to help him every way that we could. We put him up in a house, paid all of his bills. We gave him a few hundred dollars walking around money, you know? We put him with a personal trainer, Bob Bates, and gave him access to a gym every day.”
Dr. Richard L. Jacob, the Silverbacks coach, even helped Dayshawn’s mother relocate to Buffalo from Syracuse.
Jump Baller.
It appears that the ball of Wright’s career is in a tip-off leaning towards Minot.
“We know we could tie up his career for a year or more,” Weir said reluctantly, “but I’m not sure that we want to do that. I’m looking for the other side to do the right thing."
“I’m not going to play this thing out in the message boards,” says Daleo. “We have to see a contract. USA Basketball… that’s how we stop these things from happening, although I sympathize with the Silverbacks situation.”
Thus far, the Minot Skyrockets have not made any offer to the Silverbacks to resolve the situation, but both sides are talking. Weir and Daleo have spoken. Weir has faxed his legal documents to Wright’s agent, Mr. Yam, to prove his legal point, although he seems to be resigned to losing Mr. Wright, if he can be compensated for his lost time and money fairly.
“I’ve been part of minor league basketball for a long time,” Daleo said with the heaviness of a veteran coach who has seen it all. “A lot of things like this happen to everybody. It’s sad that it does. That’s part of the business.”
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