Reality bites.
Just ask Miami Hurricanes basketball player Isaiah Wong. Flush with a possibly inflated sense of his own marketing worth following his strong NCAA Tournament performance, Wong briefly decided last week that he would enter the transfer portal if his Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) financial package wasn’t increased.
Or as his NIL agent, Adam Papas of NEXT Sports Agency, told ESPN last Thursday night: “If Isaiah and his family don’t feel that the NIL number meets their expectations, they will be entering the transfer portal (Friday), while maintaining his eligibility in the NBA draft and going through the draft process.”
Papas quickly added: “Isaiah would like to stay at Miami. He had a great season leading his team to the Elite Eight. He has seen what incoming Miami Hurricane basketball players are getting in NIL and would like his NIL to reflect that he was a team leader of an Elite Eight team.”