Mike James: ‘I think that NBA teams look at me like a risk’

However, his short-lived NBA experiences didn’t quite cut it for him. He found himself craving more minutes and a major role, leading him to focus his career on European basketball instead. “I think that NBA teams look at me like a risk,” James said during SKWEEK’s Best In Class podcast. “Cuz every time I talk with them, not me personally but my representatives, they kind of feel like, ‘Yeah, but if it doesn’t go well for you, you just get mad and leave and go back to Europe.’ “Everybody just kind of thinks that if I’m not playing as much as I want, I’m going,” he added. “Everybody kind of considers me like I’ve outgrown the role that they want to put me in, but they need to put me in that role for me to get a bigger role. So, it’s like a give-and-take at some point.”
Source: BasketNews