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There is absolutely no way a team DOESNT sign him. Its just a matter of time. Portland is screwed - they signed him to that contract, now they have to pay for it.
ard just make matters worse than they were before the stupid email. Poor Miles, he maybe a bag wannabe gangsta but he's still an nba player and i think portland just ed up his career.
There is absolutely no way a team DOESNT sign him. Its just a matter of time. Portland is screwed - they signed him to that contract, now they have to pay for it.
+1
A contract is a contract is a contract.
Stern is a lawyer by trade. I'm sure he has a rock hard over this one...
The details of a signing are irrelevant. Miles has a right to seek a profession...and no other teams are responsible for the previous contract that Portland signed with Miles.
It's just a scare tactic on the part of Portland.
I'm getting my "pritch-slapped" Photoshop ready. Thanks for the pics, TLong.
That's correct. A team can sign Miles, play him for however much he needs, and then cut his ass loose and there isn't a damn thing anybody can do about it. If the NBA wants to change the rules, they can do so when they negotiate the next CBA.
there you go...
TORONTO –- One of the strangest NBA plots ever will thicken Saturday because Darius Miles will rejoin the Grizzlies with a 10-day contract.
That’s the word I got while the Griz were getting blown out by the Raptors.
Miles is expected in Memphis sometime Saturday. He has visited family in Mississippi since Tuesday when the Griz waived him to avoid guaranteeing his contract for the rest of the season.
So Miles won’t have to travel far in order to put an exclamation point on an unprecedented NBA saga given the ramification his return likely will have for the Portland Trail Blazers.
If Miles appears in two more games this season, the $18 million remaining on his salary will count against the Blazers’ salary cap. The development would make the Blazers a luxury-tax payer and limit their future free-agent spending.
Portland is still expected to be under the cap this summer. If the Blazers let Raef LaFrentz’s $12.7 million contract expire and Miles’ contract goes back on their books, they would be approximately $7.5 million under the current cap.
The figure would be $16.5 million if Miles never played.
Check www.commercialappeal.com for more details on this development.
http://www.thememphisedge.com/2009/0...-day-contract/
that's only if they renounce their rights to webster (which they might do since they have 17 SFs on the roster).
yeah Memphis. There is absolutely no way Portland could say they were signing him to only harm the Blazers since he has already played for them this season.
Memphis is obviously trying to force a trade with us. those pieces of ! We'll see how this plays out...
good job Memphis.
tic.. toc... tic.. toc...
play 'em, coach!
memphis is going to be the most-watched team this coming week.
Suddenly memphis is my second favorite team.
Not too much new info here, but posting this partially because of the quote from Larry Miller that I hadn't seen on this thread, unless I just missed it.
Report: Grizzlies ignore Blazers' threat
ESPN.com news services
Apparently the Memphis Grizzlies have chosen to ignore the Portland Trail Blazers' recent request.
The Grizzlies have re-signed Darius Miles, who is attempting a comeback from major knee surgery, to a 10-day contract, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported Friday night.
If Miles plays in two more games this season, Portland will be on the hook for $18 million -- the amount remaining on Miles' contract, which would count against Portland's salary cap and could force the team to pay luxury tax.
Hours before Miles cleared waivers Friday, Portland team president Larry Miller sent an e-mail to the other 29 NBA teams warning of legal action if a team takes Miles simply to adversely impact Portland's salary cap.
Miles, who was waived by the Grizzlies on Tuesday to avoid guaranteeing his contract for the rest of the season, is expected to be back in Memphis on Saturday.
The chance of paying the luxury tax led to the Blazers to send the e-mail, threatening legal action if a team signs Miles.
"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," part of Miller's e-mail reads, according to SI.com and Yahoo Sports!, which obtained it.
Miller tried explain his action on a conference call Friday.
"Our purpose here was not in any way to keep Darius from being able to play," Miller said. "If he can come back and help a team to win and play at a level on the court that helps the team, we have no problem with that at all.
"We were hearing a lot of rumblings and rumors that there were teams out there planning to sign Darius Miles specifically and maliciously to hurt our organization. This was our way of responding to that and letting folks know that we were not going to take it sitting down."
Later Friday, the NBA players' association said it planned to file a grievance against the Trail Blazers, on Miles' behalf.
Miles, who was the third overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2000 draft, signed a six-year, $48 million deal with Portland in 2004. The Blazers waived Miles at the end of the 2007-08 season after an independent doctor determined he hadn't recovered from microfracture surgery on his right knee in November 2006.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3822911
to memphis
The team that gave Gasol to the Lakers for next to nothing?
If they put him into two games, let him commit an intentional foul and then pull him, I will make them my new favorite team.
Marc Gasol, Darrell Arthur and two first round picks ain't nothing.
That's like saying I gave you a Ferrari but it's okay because you gave me a Subaru in return.
also, this is a tired Lakerfan excuse.
-Mars
OMFG, Pau Gasol is a Ferrari now?
That's like saying I gave you a Ferrari but it's okay because you gave me a Subaru in return.
Okay, let's go with your analogy. It's more like saying I gave you a 2001 Ferrari for a 2006 Maserati, a 2009 sports car of my choosing and two more in the next few years, any of which could be as good or better than what I gave you depending upon the quality of my choice.
Yep, you smoked me out. I'm a laker fan.
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