Knowing Mikey William's personality since then, he can just make any statement to the press anytime he wants. But for the legitimacy of those statements, I'm not buying it. Obviously, he won't admit that he didn't demand anything but let's remember that he had that same experience before where he demanded a big salary over the required teams salary cap. And the rest is history.
Also knowing TNT, even how good a player is, they won't give special treatment if, on the other hand, that said player is arrogant. See what happened before when Mikey missed several team practices without giving a noticed? Coach Jolas penalized and suspended him with a 1 week no pay, and showed no special treatment even he was the main leading scorer of the team during that conference.