Do The Wright Thing
Dayshawn Wright signed a contract with the ABA Buffalo Silverbacks. Then he signed a contract with the Minot Skyrockets of the CBA. Does Buffalo have a beef?
Jim MANDELARO & Brian ROSS
mlnsportszone.com
To paraphrase the late Ray Charles, who’s got the Wright one, baby? Is it the Buffalo Silverbacks of the American Basketball Association (ABA), or the Minot Skyrockets of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA)?
Dayshawn Wright suddenly has become hotter than a Tickle Me Elmo Extreme doll. Wright hasn't played organized ball in more than a year, a fact that makes it all the more odd that the Skyrockets and Silverbacks are fighting over him as if he was Michael Jordan in his prime.
The Wright Way
The former Syracuse forward signed a contract with the Silverbacks on July 27, 2006. Then he signed again with the Skyrockets on Oct. 9, 2006, after the Minot, North Dakota club made him the top pick in the CBA draft. Both clubs now acknowledge being caught unaware that Wright had been talking to the other. Both found out via the gossip bouncing off the digital backboards of hoops websites.
“We had no idea that he was talking to an ABA club,” said Minot Skyrockets coach Chris Daleo, who has had a long, distinguished career in minor league basketball in general and with the CBA in particular. “If I would have known that he had no intention of playing for us, I would have never drafted him. Indications were that he wanted to play in the CBA.”
“When you find out over the Internet by chance...” said Buffalo Silverbacks co-owner Todd Wier, trying to find the words to express the situation in measured terms. “Right’s right. Wrong’s wrong. Honor is honor. You know he had a buyout offer in his contract. They could have done it the right way.”
Mud and Fur Fly
“He’s a member of the Minot Skyrockets and part of the CBA,” insisted California-based sports agent Alex Yam, formerly of Sports Management Worldwide and now an independent.
Yam has been under fire from the...
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