Darius Miles?

[crazy ebw]

Thats good to see.

At least he isn't wearing Reebok.

 

[dakid23]

the teams in the west that have available roster spots, should just sign him to 10 day contracts and play him a minute a game, just to *$!% over the blazers..

 

[phillipprettyugly]

so since he's cut now, the blazers won't have to pay him right?

 

[i nasmatic i]

^
Teams can still sign and play him to screw the Blazers lol.

 

[you big dummy]

Darius Miles actually only needs to play 2 more games to screw the Blazers cap space

[h1]Blazers' magic number for cap turmoil: 2[/h1]
Until now, Portland Trail Blazers general manager Kevin Pritchard had a secret it appears most of the NBA hadn't taken the time to discover for itself: Darius Miles is on the brink of blowing up the Blazers' salary-cap space.

Most of the NBA believed Miles still was eight regular-season games away from devastating the Blazers salary cap, but Yahoo! Sports learned on Wednesday that Miles is just two games away.

Teams had been under the impression that the league's collective bargaining agreement demanded that Miles play 10 regular or postseason games for the $18 million - which is split evenly between this and next season - to return to the Blazers' payroll.

Apparently, no team had called the league for clarification on the rule that states the season is constituted by the "first day of training camp and ending immediately after the last game of the NBA Finals."

The league office confirmed to Yahoo! Sports that the six preseason games that Miles played for the Boston Celtics counts toward the 10. Before the Memphis Grizzlies waived him on Tuesday night to avoid guaranteeing his contract for the rest of the season, Miles played two regular-season games that pushed him to eight total.

Any team in the NBA simply can sign Miles to a 10-day contract, play him twice and punch out one of the summer's top free-agent destinations. The Blazers are a prime destination for free agents, and the cap space also made them a fierce competitor for sign-and-trade deals. If Miles returns to the salary cap, he also will push Portland into the luxury tax. That means every team under the tax would benefit with about $250,000 of revenue sharing from Portland.

Most of the NBA executives are reveling in the fact that clogging the Portland cap could be a way to slow the rapid rise of the franchise. Beyond that, there is a level of jealousy over the way that Portland's owner, Paul Allen, buys up draft picks from poorer teams for his GM to use. All in all, league executives have been rooting hard for Miles to play those 10 games after he missed two years with a knee injury that Portland and league doctors declared was career-ending.

"Someone is going to scoop him up and play him those two games now," one Eastern Conference executive said when told the news on Wednesday night. "Portland is screwed."

One West GM thinks the Denver Nuggets, who moved under the luxury tax threshold on Wednesday, will be motivated to sign Miles.

Another GM wondered whether the Blazers might pick Miles off waivers and just keep him on the bench, although it's unlikely the NBA would allow that. Portland's also been collecting insurance money on Miles and it just seems too unlikely that Allen and Pritchard would go to such an extreme. Nevertheless, the Blazers have an incredible amount to lose here.

When reached on Wednesday night, Jeff Weschler, Miles' agent, said he suspected the rule clarification might be true, but had yet to get a confirmation from the NBA. Still, he said, "We're not focused on that. Our focus is on Darius getting back and playing ball again. Our focus is not trying to hurt the Blazers."

 

[irocktmacs]

^ That's grimey.

 

[lnmymind]

 

[nikeflightposite]

can the blazers get him back if they wanted to?

 

[lnmymind]

/\ lol they could but why would they do that?

 

[d0njaye]

^ ^ so he can't play the last two games.

 

[lnmymind]

Originally Posted by d0njaye

^ ^ so he can't play the last two games.

But I'm saying...he would have to agree to signthere.

 

[nikeflightposite]

I have a feeling the Lakers are going to pick him up just to screw Portland like they always have in one way or another.

 

[immortal c]

You realize Portland still will have the ability to have a large amount of cap space even if Darius Miles is back on the books, yes? And that Portland has theright to appeal to keep the money off the books, right?

 

[aubstuh86]

Originally Posted by Immortal C

You realize Portland still will have the ability to have a large amount of cap space even if Darius Miles is back on the books, yes? And that Portland has the right to appeal to keep the money off the books, right?

THANK GOD.

 

[scottsauce88]

[h1]Blazers threaten litigation if Miles signed[/h1]
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 2 hours, 1 minute ago

The Portland Trail Blazers sent an email to rival team executives late Thursday threatening possible litigation to any franchise that signs free-agent forward Darius Miles for the "purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers' salary cap and tax positions."

The email cites Wednesday's Yahoo! Sports report that if Miles plays in two more games this season, the remaining $18 million on his contract goes back on the Blazers' payroll.

"The Portland Trail Blazers are aware that certain teams may be contemplating signing Darius Miles to a contract for the purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers Salary Cap and tax positions," Blazers president Larry Miller wrote in the email to representatives of every NBA team. "Such conduct by a team would violate its fiduciary duty as an NBA joint venturer. In addition, persons or entities involved in such conduct may be individually liable to the Portland Trail Blazers for tortuously interfering with the Portland Trail Blazers contract rights and perspective economic opportunities.

"Please be aware that if a team engages in such conduct, the Portland Trail Blazers will take all necessary steps to safeguard its rights, including, without limitation, litigation."

Teams had been under the impression the collective bargaining agreement demanded that Miles play 10 regular-season or postseason games for the $18 million - which is split evenly between this and next season - to return to the Blazers' payroll. But the league office confirmed to Yahoo! Sports that the six preseason games that Miles played for the Boston Celtics counts toward the 10. Before the Memphis Grizzlies waived him on Tuesday night to avoid guaranteeing his contract for the rest of the season, Miles played two regular-season games that pushed him to eight total.

"They're daring someone to sign him now," said one Western Conference GM who had seen the email from the Blazers.

Any team in the NBA can sign Miles to a 10-day contract, play him twice and punch out one of the summer's top free-agent destinations. The Blazers are a prime destination for free agents, and the cap space also made them a fierce competitor for sign-and-trade deals. If Miles returns to the salary cap, he also will push Portland into the luxury tax. That means every team under the tax would benefit with about $250,000 of revenue sharing from Portland.

"The point that everybody is missing is that this isn't about Portland's salary cap. It's about whether this guy [Miles] is healthy enough to play or not," said an Eastern Conference executive. "He obviously is healthy enough to play. It doesn't matter how good he plays. He can still play, and they said he couldn't.

"Portland received benefits when [Miles'] injury was ruled career-ending. If he can play, they don't deserve to have those benefits."

This is !%%#$$@ ridiculous. They are threatening to sue teams who pick up a player that can still play. Its obvious the dude didnt sustain a career ending injury. Now I really hope someone signs Miles just to screw over Portland.

 

[onedollarballah23]

DO IT MITCH!!

 

[jepeh21]

clippers just go ahead and sign dmiles!

 

[theprocessofbelief]

Man.... he can still play. SOMEONE PICK HIM UP, DAMNIT.

 

[e3lal]

Scottsauce88 wrote:

---

[h1]Blazers threaten litigation if Miles signed[/h1]
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 2 hours, 1 minute ago

The Portland Trail Blazers sent an email to rival team executives late Thursday threatening possible litigation to any franchise that signs free-agent forward Darius Miles for the "purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers' salary cap and tax positions."

The email cites Wednesday's Yahoo! Sports report that if Miles plays in two more games this season, the remaining $18 million on his contract goes back on the Blazers' payroll.

"The Portland Trail Blazers are aware that certain teams may be contemplating signing Darius Miles to a contract for the purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers Salary Cap and tax positions," Blazers president Larry Miller wrote in the email to representatives of every NBA team. "Such conduct by a team would violate its fiduciary duty as an NBA joint venturer. In addition, persons or entities involved in such conduct may be individually liable to the Portland Trail Blazers for tortuously interfering with the Portland Trail Blazers contract rights and perspective economic opportunities.

"Please be aware that if a team engages in such conduct, the Portland Trail Blazers will take all necessary steps to safeguard its rights, including, without limitation, litigation."

Teams had been under the impression the collective bargaining agreement demanded that Miles play 10 regular-season or postseason games for the $18 million - which is split evenly between this and next season - to return to the Blazers' payroll. But the league office confirmed to Yahoo! Sports that the six preseason games that Miles played for the Boston Celtics counts toward the 10. Before the Memphis Grizzlies waived him on Tuesday night to avoid guaranteeing his contract for the rest of the season, Miles played two regular-season games that pushed him to eight total.

"They're daring someone to sign him now," said one Western Conference GM who had seen the email from the Blazers.

Any team in the NBA can sign Miles to a 10-day contract, play him twice and punch out one of the summer's top free-agent destinations. The Blazers are a prime destination for free agents, and the cap space also made them a fierce competitor for sign-and-trade deals. If Miles returns to the salary cap, he also will push Portland into the luxury tax. That means every team under the tax would benefit with about $250,000 of revenue sharing from Portland.

"The point that everybody is missing is that this isn't about Portland's salary cap. It's about whether this guy [Miles] is healthy enough to play or not," said an Eastern Conference executive. "He obviously is healthy enough to play. It doesn't matter how good he plays. He can still play, and they said he couldn't.

"Portland received benefits when [Miles'] injury was ruled career-ending. If he can play, they don't deserve to have those benefits."

This is !%%#$$@ ridiculous. They are threatening to sue teams who pick up a player that can still play. Its obvious the dude didnt sustain a career ending injury. Now I really hope someone signs Miles just to screw over Portland.
Their statement really turned me off. I hope someone signs him too.

 

[e3lal]

Scottsauce88 wrote:

---

[h1]Blazers threaten litigation if Miles signed[/h1]
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 2 hours, 1 minute ago

The Portland Trail Blazers sent an email to rival team executives late Thursday threatening possible litigation to any franchise that signs free-agent forward Darius Miles for the "purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers' salary cap and tax positions."

The email cites Wednesday's Yahoo! Sports report that if Miles plays in two more games this season, the remaining $18 million on his contract goes back on the Blazers' payroll.

"The Portland Trail Blazers are aware that certain teams may be contemplating signing Darius Miles to a contract for the purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers Salary Cap and tax positions," Blazers president Larry Miller wrote in the email to representatives of every NBA team. "Such conduct by a team would violate its fiduciary duty as an NBA joint venturer. In addition, persons or entities involved in such conduct may be individually liable to the Portland Trail Blazers for tortuously interfering with the Portland Trail Blazers contract rights and perspective economic opportunities.

"Please be aware that if a team engages in such conduct, the Portland Trail Blazers will take all necessary steps to safeguard its rights, including, without limitation, litigation."

Teams had been under the impression the collective bargaining agreement demanded that Miles play 10 regular-season or postseason games for the $18 million - which is split evenly between this and next season - to return to the Blazers' payroll. But the league office confirmed to Yahoo! Sports that the six preseason games that Miles played for the Boston Celtics counts toward the 10. Before the Memphis Grizzlies waived him on Tuesday night to avoid guaranteeing his contract for the rest of the season, Miles played two regular-season games that pushed him to eight total.

"They're daring someone to sign him now," said one Western Conference GM who had seen the email from the Blazers.

Any team in the NBA can sign Miles to a 10-day contract, play him twice and punch out one of the summer's top free-agent destinations. The Blazers are a prime destination for free agents, and the cap space also made them a fierce competitor for sign-and-trade deals. If Miles returns to the salary cap, he also will push Portland into the luxury tax. That means every team under the tax would benefit with about $250,000 of revenue sharing from Portland.

"The point that everybody is missing is that this isn't about Portland's salary cap. It's about whether this guy [Miles] is healthy enough to play or not," said an Eastern Conference executive. "He obviously is healthy enough to play. It doesn't matter how good he plays. He can still play, and they said he couldn't.

"Portland received benefits when [Miles'] injury was ruled career-ending. If he can play, they don't deserve to have those benefits."

This is !%%#$$@ ridiculous. They are threatening to sue teams who pick up a player that can still play. Its obvious the dude didnt sustain a career ending injury. Now I really hope someone signs Miles just to screw over Portland.
Their statement really turned me off. I hope someone signs him too.

 

[willinc]

Someone please pick him up and play him 2 games.

 

[CP1708]

Originally Posted by Scottsauce88

[h1]Blazers threaten litigation if Miles signed[/h1]
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 2 hours, 1 minute ago

The Portland Trail Blazers sent an email to rival team executives late Thursday threatening possible litigation to any franchise that signs free-agent forward Darius Miles for the "purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers' salary cap and tax positions."

The email cites Wednesday's Yahoo! Sports report that if Miles plays in two more games this season, the remaining $18 million on his contract goes back on the Blazers' payroll.

"The Portland Trail Blazers are aware that certain teams may be contemplating signing Darius Miles to a contract for the purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers Salary Cap and tax positions," Blazers president Larry Miller wrote in the email to representatives of every NBA team. "Such conduct by a team would violate its fiduciary duty as an NBA joint venturer. In addition, persons or entities involved in such conduct may be individually liable to the Portland Trail Blazers for tortuously interfering with the Portland Trail Blazers contract rights and perspective economic opportunities.

"Please be aware that if a team engages in such conduct, the Portland Trail Blazers will take all necessary steps to safeguard its rights, including, without limitation, litigation."

Teams had been under the impression the collective bargaining agreement demanded that Miles play 10 regular-season or postseason games for the $18 million - which is split evenly between this and next season - to return to the Blazers' payroll. But the league office confirmed to Yahoo! Sports that the six preseason games that Miles played for the Boston Celtics counts toward the 10. Before the Memphis Grizzlies waived him on Tuesday night to avoid guaranteeing his contract for the rest of the season, Miles played two regular-season games that pushed him to eight total.

"They're daring someone to sign him now," said one Western Conference GM who had seen the email from the Blazers.

Any team in the NBA can sign Miles to a 10-day contract, play him twice and punch out one of the summer's top free-agent destinations. The Blazers are a prime destination for free agents, and the cap space also made them a fierce competitor for sign-and-trade deals. If Miles returns to the salary cap, he also will push Portland into the luxury tax. That means every team under the tax would benefit with about $250,000 of revenue sharing from Portland.

"The point that everybody is missing is that this isn't about Portland's salary cap. It's about whether this guy [Miles] is healthy enough to play or not," said an Eastern Conference executive. "He obviously is healthy enough to play. It doesn't matter how good he plays. He can still play, and they said he couldn't.

"Portland received benefits when [Miles'] injury was ruled career-ending. If he can play, they don't deserve to have those benefits."

What a pathetic franchise. They force someone to say that his injury is career ending so they can collect the insurance, and then when the bum rehabs himselfand gets a chance to play again, they threaten every other team in the league so they can keep their money they didn't deserve.

I don't care what team this is, the is a low class ploy and they should be exposed for it. I hope someone signs the bum and let the Blazers try to suethem. They'll look more ridiculous then they already do. They'll look awesome in court talkin bout how his career should be over and they deservedthe money, even though he can now play and resume his career.

Bums.

 

[ill4eva]

at the Blazers for threatening to sue other teams. Tell Paul Allen to save that money he'd use on lawyers, and just use it towards buyingdraft picks. The Blazers will have absolutely no grounds for winning this case. None. The NBA is more likely to step in and grant the Blazers' caprelief rather than opening up the Pandora's Box of having its own teams suing each other.

 

[high class scum bag]

I wouldnt be surprised if he's signed by the Blazers and told to stay away from the team just so they dont have to worry about another team signing him.

 

[tupac003]

Originally Posted by High Class Scum Bag

I wouldnt be surprised if he's signed by the Blazers and told to stay away from the team just so they dont have to worry about another team signing him.

That would be smart.

I think this would make teams want to do it more now. This is not the way you go about things. Its not illegal in ANYWAY to sign anybody. There is now way toprove that any team did it just to screw their cap.