The Mike James soap opera continues. The point guard is in Moscow exercising on his own, waiting for a contract that will allow him to definitively break with CSKA. Things with the Russian team have not gone well in recent months. In the summer of 2019 Ettore Messina showed him the door to Armani Milan, despite the fact that he had been the top scorer in the Euroleague a year earlier. His new assignment was CSKA, but in his second season the problems began. The club suspended the player at the end of January this year for an incident in the locker room. Although he later returned to team dynamics, the situation went wrong again a few weeks later. A heated argument with Dimitris Itoudis during a timeout in a VTB match against Unics Kazan was the final straw.
James, with permission from CSKA, finished the season in the NBA (Brooklyn Nets). The point guard, who did private training with the Lakers, is waiting to reach an agreement with a team, something that would facilitate his departure from the Russian team, with which he has another two years of contract. Meanwhile he is still ‘trapped’ in Moscow.
The point guard has recognized that it is not a shame to be without a team at the moment and has put a price on himself. One user joked about his contractual situation and offered him a position on an amateur team. “Can you pay me $ 2.5 million? Because if so, count on me.”