If we are in the minority so be it. Williams by all accounts sounds like the kind of guy that McDermott is looking for. Somebody is going to get paid and to me it may as well be him.
You believe the owners care about the players well being? They don’t guarantee the entire contract. Everbody knows those contracts are front loaded for a reason. These contracts rarely run the full term. And you can’t make an employee work no matter how much you have paid them.