the portland trailblazers
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I GIVE IT UP TO YALL. BLAZERS ARE DOIN DIRT. AS MUCH MUCH AS I HATE THEM, I DIDNT EXPECT U GUYS TO BE GOOD THAT FAST. I HAD U GUYS MAKIN PLAYOFFS FIGHTING FOR THE 8TH SEED BUT WITH LAST YEARS GREAT TEAMS IN THE WEST GOING DOWNHILL AND DISSAPEARIGN AND YALL STEPPING IT UP, YALL LOCKED IN A PLAYOFF SPOT. HOPEFULLY THE BULLS PULL THROUGH AND MAKE THE PLAYOFFS. I DIDNT EXPECT MUCH FROM THEM WITH A COACH WHO NEVER COACHED A DAY IN HIS LIFE AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF YOUNGINS WHO HAD THERE OWN AGENDA BUT DERRICK ROSE JUST MIGHT LEAD THE TEAM TO PLAYOFFS
tough loss to swallow. blake choked. all there is to it. well we got a few days off and we can finally start playin games at home. "Perhaps the only silver lining in the painful loss is that the Blazers, for seemingly the first time all season, have a few days to recuperate before their next game. After playing 16 of their first 24 games on the road -- the most early-season road games for an NBA team in 20 years -- they will not play until Tuesday at home against the Sacramento Kings." - Jason Quick.
Report: Grizzlies sign Darius Miles
Posted by Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com December 13, 2008 21:52PM
Categories: Breaking News
Photo by Stephanie Yao / The Oregonian
Here we go again. Former Blazer forward Darius Miles worked out (auditioned) with the Los Angeles Clippers last week. And while Portland dodged that bullet, reports Saturday have it Miles has signed a non-guaranteed contract with the Memphis Grizzlies:
Miles won't be eligible to play for the Griz until Jan. 4. He must first serve a 10-game suspension for violating the league's anti-drug policy by testing positive for a banned weight-loss stimulant. He can attend practices, but he must be out of the arena two hours before tip-off of games.
The Grizzlies' gamble will last at least until Jan. 7, when they must decide whether to guarantee Miles' contract for the rest of the season. He'll likely appear in two games before then, and would only cost the Griz roughly $500,000 if he remains on the roster through April.
[snip]
Wallace denied that the motivation for acquiring Miles was to adversely affect Portland's salary cap.
If Miles appears in more than 10 regular-season games, his $9.3 million annual salary will be picked up by the Trail Blazers, fulfilling the terms of the NBA's career-ending injury policy. Already assured of making $18 million over the next two seasons from his guaranteed Blazers contract, Miles said his comeback is purely basketball-related.
"I wish I could do this without me having to put money on (Portland's) salary cap," Miles said. "The only reason they say something about me is because of their business decision. They decided they didn't want me to play for that team anymore. It's kind of like the (Stephon Marbury) situation, and everybody labeled my like I was this bad dude.
Ken Berger of CBS Sportsline isn't keen on the idea for the Grizz:
I ask, why? And I say, bad idea.
[snip]
Now, with a roster spot cleared after a three-team trade that sent Javaris Crittenton to Washington, the Grizzlies evidently have decided that the best use of that roster spot is to fill it with Miles, who has not played since 2006 due to a debilitating knee injury. Miles also will be suspended for the first 10 games he's on an active roster for violating the league's anti-drug policy.
"When it ends -- and it doesn't end well, because he never does with Darius -- all it can do is blow up the team," a person familiar with the Grizzlies' situation said.
Now the Blazers management staff will watch and wait.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/blazers/2008/12/report_grizzlies_sign_darius_m.html
LOL ANY BETS ON HOW MANY DAYS TILL THEY CUT HIM?
Posted by Sean Meagher, OregonLive.com December 13, 2008 21:52PM
Categories: Breaking News
Photo by Stephanie Yao / The Oregonian
Here we go again. Former Blazer forward Darius Miles worked out (auditioned) with the Los Angeles Clippers last week. And while Portland dodged that bullet, reports Saturday have it Miles has signed a non-guaranteed contract with the Memphis Grizzlies:
Miles won't be eligible to play for the Griz until Jan. 4. He must first serve a 10-game suspension for violating the league's anti-drug policy by testing positive for a banned weight-loss stimulant. He can attend practices, but he must be out of the arena two hours before tip-off of games.
The Grizzlies' gamble will last at least until Jan. 7, when they must decide whether to guarantee Miles' contract for the rest of the season. He'll likely appear in two games before then, and would only cost the Griz roughly $500,000 if he remains on the roster through April.
[snip]
Wallace denied that the motivation for acquiring Miles was to adversely affect Portland's salary cap.
If Miles appears in more than 10 regular-season games, his $9.3 million annual salary will be picked up by the Trail Blazers, fulfilling the terms of the NBA's career-ending injury policy. Already assured of making $18 million over the next two seasons from his guaranteed Blazers contract, Miles said his comeback is purely basketball-related.
"I wish I could do this without me having to put money on (Portland's) salary cap," Miles said. "The only reason they say something about me is because of their business decision. They decided they didn't want me to play for that team anymore. It's kind of like the (Stephon Marbury) situation, and everybody labeled my like I was this bad dude.
Ken Berger of CBS Sportsline isn't keen on the idea for the Grizz:
I ask, why? And I say, bad idea.
[snip]
Now, with a roster spot cleared after a three-team trade that sent Javaris Crittenton to Washington, the Grizzlies evidently have decided that the best use of that roster spot is to fill it with Miles, who has not played since 2006 due to a debilitating knee injury. Miles also will be suspended for the first 10 games he's on an active roster for violating the league's anti-drug policy.
"When it ends -- and it doesn't end well, because he never does with Darius -- all it can do is blow up the team," a person familiar with the Grizzlies' situation said.
Now the Blazers management staff will watch and wait.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/blazers/2008/12/report_grizzlies_sign_darius_m.html
LOL ANY BETS ON HOW MANY DAYS TILL THEY CUT HIM?