Heard the interview....

Is it even legal?
There is no conflict of interest and the 6ers are not training yet?

Surely having your players involved with the community in an event like this is great for the 6ers organisation.

Not going to go down well with the kids that are involved in the event, parents and now this next saga is out the wider community.

Perhaps McVeigh is contracted to the 36ers and is obliged to get permission prior to taking on any outside work.

Maybe it's as simple as the 36ers don’t want anyone at the club associated with Joey.

Jack was going to attend another camp run by a local club and was told he couldn't attend. No money in it for Jack, he was just happy to come be involved.

Seems very short sighted by the 36ers.

In what world would you want a current player being associated with the former head coach, who had messages about certain players hopefully hanging themselves?? Great PR move to let that go ahead..

Surely Sobey will come by and run the boxing warm
up for Joey?

Kev White to run the whatsapp welfare checks for Joey too?

174, the player maybe has forgiven his coach for making snide remarks using an inappropriate metaphor. The remarks clearly were not literal in intent, in a group chat with what we are led to believe was only a handful of colleagues.

Maybe the organisation should move on too rather than controlling what their players do in their spare time to help grow the game and earn some extra cash too.

This is just another cringe worthy move by 36ers management.

Perhaps they aren't happy Joey is being sought out by the players to coach them in the off season.

I wouldn't want someone representing my brand, associating with Joey Wright. You can’t leave the way he did, having the stuff he DID infact say come out, and expect the 36ers to want to have their employee associate with him so he can make a financial gain.

"Maybe it's as simple as the 36ers don't want anyone at the club associated with Joey." Joey who? His name is mud as oppossed to Voldermort.

Kelley like it or not, has the money. Even if it's like a Dolan with the Knicks scenario, it is what it is.

Move on, nothing to see here. Geez, people need to seriously get over themselves.

They want nothing to do with Joey due to his outlandish behaviour when working for the club.

Does Joey really care? It's more about kids missing out on getting to know Jack.

The 36ers employed an outside company to run camps and so on. That company sacked the 36ers because they were so badly managed. Let that sink in.

Besides punching his star player, being toxic to the playing group and instigating almost weekly fights @ training, not to mention his comments re mental health, I'd think it is well deserved

He's no longer at the club, time to move on. Players on contract to the Sixers got to stay loyal to one boss, should not be at camps with former coach.

KET: chat to some players/staff and you will get answers

Exactly KET , Joey is still training those players at the players request. Speaks volumes

"joey is still training those players at the players request. Speaks volumes." No it means there is no one at the Sixers that has control on the team. No HC and they haven't said to the playing group make no contact with Joey. Piss weak. (as usual)

You miss the point anon that there are players that are still here who were loyal to Joey and there was a sub set that have been booted by the club

The actions speak to that.

I agree that the club should be stepping in and arranging coaching and conditioning in the off season while awaiting Henry to arrive ( insert that is still
up for debate too)

Considering that Perth are training as I bet other teams are too, for the 36ers not to have the team that is here training under someone's watch , say Liam Flynn, is laughable

Joey working his angles for sympathy but let's be frank he embrassed the club and clearly the club could find issues with fair work etc so can’t see why they’d let any employees work with him

Seems pretty black and white to me.

All I know is I dropped of my lad there today and stuck around and I saw packed gym of kids running around and learning and developing in the sport.

Fantastic initiative, and sad that an organisation has seen it fit to illegally block players in the offseason from contributing to such a great initiative for the sport in their free time. Makes zero sense, bad business, and more damage to what was once a great 6ers brand. Can't blame anyone for this except the individual/s that made this decision. I wonder if it were the same people/person as the Mitch Creek saga?

Illegally blocking players hahahaha

Restraint of trade is illegal
36ers lurching from one drama to the next

Most employment contracts have a clause stating you must seek prior approval before obtaining other external employment. It's standard. Hardly restraint of trade. But cheers for posting in your lunch break Joey

But this is pro sports, the NBL and more importantly the 36ers. The same club that forgot to get Ferguson's payment before releasing him , the same club that chased Mitch Creek in court to enforce a contract that didn't exist.

Pro sports players aren't normal employees in the eyes of the courts or the ATO for that matter.

If you're contracted to one company you just can’t go and work for another unless permission is allowed. Why would the Sixers want to help out a former coach who left in bad terms. It’s done in football where contracted players are on loan to other clubs, restriction of trade lmao.

^5. If the Sixers can't get it done that's their fault. They should stay away from the toxic and cancerous Wright. Signing him to such a stupidly long contract was ridiculous too. More Sixers mismanagement.

You don't understand NBL contracts then. AFL players run clinics as do A League. Despite these competing with their clubs now business model. A player is contracted to provide playing services, Jack McVeigh was not playing.Just as the club cant tell a player that they are now going to wash cars or take up other tasks as part of the their employment The 36ers cant stop him attending the camp, the only issue being to look at him unfavourably going forward.

Calling Wright "cancerous" and "toxic" shows you have never met him or had a conversation with him. Because a minority had issue with him and used the attach on Wright to deflect from their own shortcomings is not an issue for Wright. Participating in liable may be an issue for you though so think before you post.

Its unfair to call Wright toxic and cancerous while not criticising the players who continued to let him down.

Until this season nbl Australian contracts go over 12 months, you have to get a release from your club to play elsewhere or do anything with basketball, McVeigh had a two year deal so is under contract and Adelaide are quite within their right to stop him helping Wright.

This coming season onwards players can now take it over seasons length or 12 monthly.

not true - you don't need to get a release to attend a camp , run a business or doing anything other than play basketball for said NBL club. You aren't a slave, the club can not legally tell you what you can and cant do outside of what you have signed up for.

If any coach talks about 'hanging' then thats a toxic and cancerous environment.
""F**k all of them. Hopefully it gets low enough for them to hang themselves. F**king dicks," Then he went on to say to the ABC ""Everyone that knows me knows what kind of culture person I am," Wright said.
"If there was anybody setting culture rules there and wanting to abide by them, it's me. "That's probably one of my downfalls. "I'm too hardcore about keeping culture the way it's supposed to be and doing the things you're supposed to."
THat is a fact not libel. It also confirms exactly what sort of a culture he was enabling. One of toxicity and cancer.

Sixers have their own camp coming. Why would they allow one of their players to attend a rival camp whether it be Wright's or anybody elses. Business 101.

You're taking a private message out of context and making it into something it isn't. If there was a bad culture there but Joey couldn't fix it, thats on the players.

A late famous nrl coach Jack Gibson use to say 3/4 years at any club was long enough, left Parramatta after a 3peat and didn't defend the for a fourth. Now in basketball this is not always the case due to normal high turnover of small list of players but in Wright’s case his time was up as his familiarity had its use by date.
Adelaide were in their right to tell their players not to go, it’s time for all to move on.

Joey is a fantastic salesperson. And nobody sells the "poor me against the world" better than him. I know Joey very well personally, away from the court, and I can tell you he is a ruthless shark who will exploit anyone to get what he wants, all the while making you and everyone else believe he is sacrificing himself.

That message may have been taken out of context but reveals a lot about his true nature, and is not a sole example.

I would not let my players, employees, kids or girlfriends anywhere near the guy.

Glad you aren't my friend.

#028 Never said I was his friend, and you should be glad you aren't either mate. Toxic and dysfunctional are the best words to describe him.
And if you believe players spoke up in favour of him proves he’s not that bad, you’d be dead wrong. He bullied the younger players (who still think he has some influence) that they owe him and made them post positive things about him.
He tried it with former colleagues too, but that didn’t work.
Check out his Transition Sports Promo video (https://www.facebook.com/171072676276563/posts/3211791645537969/?vh=e&d=n) he’s drunk and clearly slurring his words, can’t even open his eyes. Players reported that he was turning up drunk/hungover to training. 100% true.
He constantly screws people over and then cries "poor me, everything is so hard for me/everyone’s out to get me" when he’s called out on it.
Not denying his expertise or skill on the court, but as a human being, he is not a decent person.