Jeremiah Massey

- Jeremiah Massey

Massey was a member of Real Madrid last season, but with the arrival of Ettore Messina came a new era, and Massey was not retained. In fact, pretty much no one was retained; the only 4 current Real Madrid players who were there this time last year are Felipe Reyes, Louis Bullock, Sergio Llull and Tomas Van Der Spiegel, the latter of whom barely plays. Maybe they turned over too much, because they're losing to Barcelona in all competitions right now.

It took a strangely long time for Real Madrid and Massey to finalise a settlement of the contract, and Massey didn't find a new team until late February. But he did eventually join Xacobeo Blusens, who are currently second last in the ACB with an 8-20 record. Massey played six games with the team and averaged 14.0 points and 5.7 rebounds; however, he was subbed out early from their last game on Monday night - a 40 point loss to Bilbao - and was then suspended by the team. An early report that I cited in an earlier post said that Massey was suspended for "threatening behaviour", but this turned out to be a mistranslation. Supposedly, he was actually released to a terrible attitude. Whatever that attitude consisted of, it must have been pretty severe for a team in a desperate relegation struggle to release one of their better players so close to the season's end. They have moved fast in already replacing him with Paul Davis, and rumours continue to circle surrounding a potential Stephon Marbury signing, but regardless of both of those things, Xacobeo are still in trouble.