The explosive guard Mikey Williams tried to play hard ball with his PBA team and now he is paying the price for being too greedy. He had his chances to make amends and apologze for abandoning his team, but he is too proud of that.
Unfortunately for him, the TNT is willing to reciprocate his hard ball stance. They rejected his request to go bck to the negotiating table and even avided his attempt to speak to the TNT big boss, Manny V. Pangilinan.
A similar attempt to sit down with Chot Reyes was also rebuked and Williams was supposedly informed that the TNT head coach was focused on the Tropang Giga's playoffs run which has now reached the Commissioner's Cup Finals.
With those two big doors closed, and with the player's camp showing zero desire to talk to TNT team manager Jojo Lastimosa, Williams has no other option but to go to Los Angeles last 2 March. His PBA dreams was cut short unnessarily.
It has been an exhausting 23 months since the all-purpose guard left the team after invoking a renegotiation clause in his contract that allegedly paid him well over US$ 20,000 a month, including generous bonuses.
Nearly two years, one termination letter, and plenty of angst later, the impasse lingers and TNT is conveniently sitting on Williams' rights. The team can do that and within the PBA rules. Williams chose a wrong enemy to tangle because TNT doesn't need him at all.
TNT is actually better off without the No. 4 overall pick of the 2020 Rookie Draft. They won two conferences already without him and is the path of securing a first grand slam for the franchise.
Williams can explore other leagues, but will he receive US$ 20k-plus a month paycheck again?
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