In response to Happy Casa Brindisi’s statement regarding Adrian Banks, his agent, Justin Haynes of BDA Sports, has made the following statement:<\/p>\n
Too often in our business when a Player decides not to accept an offer to re-sign with his previous team we hear from team Owners and Presidents that the Player is somehow ungrateful, unappreciative, or is incapable of demonstrating gratitude.\u00a0 <\/span>The Player is then forced into the position where he is furthered viewed as being unprofessional or insubordinate if he or she is to respond to such comments. \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n We see this narrative repeated every off-season.\u00a0 <\/span>Each of these statements are made with the understanding of how harmful they can personally be to a Player and how damaging they can be to their careers.\u00a0 <\/span>Therefore, I am calling on all team representatives to discontinue their attempts to negatively brand any player who does not comply to the terms of a contract extension!\u00a0 <\/span>Happy Casa Brindisi’s comments today are all too familiar and demonstrate another President’s attempt to brand a Player as selfish simply because he was fortunate enough to receive a stronger economic offer from another employer.\u00a0 <\/span>A Player’s gratitude is not simply measured by whether he or she is re-signing with their previous team and that should not be the case with Adrian Banks choosing to continue his career with a new team.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n On behalf of Adrian, I can say that he is incredibly grateful to the city of Brindisi, their fans, sponsors, and the team for their support of him while he was with the\u00a0 <\/span>Happy Casa Brindisi organization.\u00a0 <\/span>He is forever gracious for the love and opportunity he was given and his decision to resume his career elsewhere will never change that.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Justin Haynes of BDA Sports has replied to Brindisi president Nando Marino: \u201cHappy Casa Brindisi’s comments today are all too familiar and demonstrate another President’s attempt to brand a Player as selfish simply because he was fortunate enough to receive a stronger economic offer from another employer\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[195,259],"tags":[1318,532],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-152058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball-champions-league","category-serie-a","tag-adrian-banks-en","tag-happy-casa-brindisi-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152058"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=152058"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=152058"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=152058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}