Congrats to Memphis

[ohara831]

I congratulate Memphis on resigning Miles in the face of the threats to sue by the jackass Portland franchise. When one billionaire threatens to sue another, I guess it becomes a game of "who's got the bigger set of -alls" or at least a pissing contest. But I wish Charlotte would have been the one to do it rather than Memphis. Oh well, at least someone stood up to the jackasses in Portland! Portland, couldn't you come up with something better or more original than "I'll sue you!"?

[dnbman]

I congratulate Memphis on resigning Miles in the face of the threats to sue by the jackass Portland franchise. When one billionaire threatens to sue another, I guess it becomes a game of "who's got the bigger set of -alls" or at least a pissing contest. But I wish Charlotte would have been the one to do it rather than Memphis. Oh well, at least someone stood up to the jackasses in Portland! Portland, couldn't you come up with something better or more original than "I'll sue you!"?

This does add a lot more intrigue to the next Memphis/Portland contest.

"Sweep the leg, Brandon."

[ohara831]

You know, the more I think about it, I think Portland forced Memphis' hand. Because Memphis had just released Miles. And with that letter from Portland going out, that makes for a sure fire case of Collusion in violation of the CBA if Portland demands no one sign Miles for fear of a lawsuit, and the other teams agree not to sign him. That makes it look like Memphis spoke with Portland before releasing him, and only released him at Portland's request. And with no one else stepping up, no wonder the Union was looking into it.

[dnbman]

You know, the more I think about it, I think Portland forced Memphis' hand. Because Memphis had just released Miles. And with that letter from Portland going out, that makes for a sure fire case of Collusion in violation of the CBA if Portland demands no one sign Miles for fear of a lawsuit, and the other teams agree not to sign him. That makes it look like Memphis spoke with Portland before releasing him, and only released him at Portland's request. And with no one else stepping up, no wonder the Union was looking into it.

Hmmmm... very interesting. I guess they can cut him and resign him because he's on a 10 day contract?

[Keetch]

My first reaction was very negative. Who at Memphis would be so cruel to cost Paul Allen, what $18M? I wouldn't do that to anybody, even a billionaire.

But apparently the Grizzlies don't give a crap.

I refuse to believe that any NBA team seriously believes that Darius Miles is worth 10 cents as an NBA player. So Portland's big mistake will be played out to its final conclusion thanks to the Grizzlies. Why not.

I like Portland. I think their a class franchise. Not so much Memphis.

[superb1]

i look it as a plus for other franchise who are under the cap or has the flexibility to make moves. Now Portland has to eventually pay the talent that they make amassed or start move some of them. We could make a trade with them that gives them some short contracts for they pending free agent and/ or longer contracts
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=2753~2776~3016~2754~2015~2795&teams=22~22~22~30~30~30&te=&cash=

how about this trade

[tamburello]

What Portland did was simply ridiculous. How can they think that they can threat the other teams like that? How can they interfere the other teams' plans?

This has nothing to do with health of Miles. A team can regard him as a benchwarmer and sign him, either play him 2 mpg or not. Even if Grizzlies signed intentionally, what can Blazers say, since they're already using the absence of Miles (in terms of rest of his contract and an open roster spot)?

Actually I think Grizzlies released him only not to make his deal fully guaranteed, so that they can sign him two consecutive 10-day deals and see him more on the court and decide whether sign him for the rest of the season.

What Blazers did was so awful that if I were a GM of a team, I could sign Miles, play him 2 games and release, only to screw Blazers' payroll. Pritchard shouldn't cry for that since they deserved it.

[Keetch]

That would be mean.