Miles Waived by Celtics!

by lefty6283 on Oct 20, 2008 9:32 AM PDT Comment 24 comments

So it looks like we've dodged a bullet for the time being...I just saw on the bottom line on ESPN that the Celtics have indeed decided to release Darius Miles...The move made sense in that they already had 15 people with guaranteed contracts, so had they decided to retain Miles, they would have had to not only pay Miles the veterans minimum, but also pay the the player they cut the remainder of their salary. Everyone take a deep breath, and enjoy this moment!

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A little surprising

He looked better than three other players on the Celtics during the pre-season to me (Pruit, Scalabrine, Giddens). But they have Walker, who is basically a younger more athletic version of the current Darius.

We dodged this bullet. More bullets to come unless he signs in Europe.

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by Norsktroll on Oct 20, 2008 9:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

NOOOOO!!!!

You piece of poop! You beat me by seconds!! This has to be a record for two post on the same subject being posted at the same time.

by ggassen85 on Oct 20, 2008 9:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Relax, it happens with breaking news…
I remember I was second on the Luol Deng extension or something. And Sabonis4Ever put the Darius news in the junk drawer.

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by Norsktroll on Oct 20, 2008 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

woa ... the "P" word.

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by Y5k on Oct 20, 2008 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And I just posted a fanshot

with this link to the official announcement.

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by jorga on Oct 20, 2008 9:43 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Now we should have the news covered from all sides :)

Junk drawer, fanposts (2), fanshot, article. Yup, that should get the word out.

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by Norsktroll on Oct 20, 2008 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Time for it to hit the front page, methinks

by inroywetrust on Oct 20, 2008 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, I deleted the fanshot

Gotta make room for ALL the news

by jorga on Oct 20, 2008 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

YES!

everythings comin up blazers!

stay humble

by nep4life on Oct 20, 2008 9:50 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

What does this mean?

What I mean is…

could someone please explain to me the practical significance of this; what can we do with the money?

I know that it is good, and that it has to do with a bucketload of money, but the specifics are fuzzy.

by everett on Oct 20, 2008 9:53 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

ehh rougly speaking, we'll have about 9 million dollars more in cap room come the offseason when we want to sign a free agent or make a one-sided trade with someone (i.e. we take a big contract and we give out just a few small contracts)

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by prezofdeath on Oct 20, 2008 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Got it...

maybe…

by everett on Oct 20, 2008 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Haha Dave said it better than I

but essentially if we’re over the “cap limit” set by the NBA (i think it’s 58 million in total salaries or so?), then if two teams want to trade, the trades have to be equal in salary cap (there is a little “fudge” room…I think it’s 25% or maybe even less).

But if we are UNDER the salary cap, we can trade a Brandon Roy $4million dollar contract to the Cavaliers for Lebron’s $16 million dollar contract, straight across.

Furthermore, you can’t sign a free agent to a 20 million dollar contract if you’re at or above the limit. The best you can do is a “mid-level exception” which is only about 5 or 6 million a year I think.

So if D-Miles is off our books, that helps keep us under the salary cap so we can sign free agents or make trades and help other teams take salary off their books, which other teams love. Teams will give us more talent than we give them if we help them by taking on a bunch of their salary.

Read Dave’s Miles and the Cap Manifesto or the Wiki on it if you’re really curious.

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by prezofdeath on Oct 20, 2008 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's all coming together now

So now we start going after Steve Nashty right?

by everett on Oct 20, 2008 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I proposed that a while back somewhere

I still think Nash has a couple years left in the tank.

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by prezofdeath on Oct 20, 2008 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Couple at the most.

Nash does have a couple of years left. Us pursuing him may have made sense years ago. Being where I am I am a big fan of his. But also have to be real about it. Couple of years left at the most.

by CanadianBlazerfan on Oct 20, 2008 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not now

Next summer. We still don’t have cap room until next summer.

If Darius goes on the books, we have a lot of cap room next summer. If he doesn’t, and he’s finished, then we have a lot of lot of lot of cap room next summer.

But by next summer, Steve Nash will be old, Blake and Sergio and Bayless will be all-stars, Martell will be back and scoring 25 a game on 10 shots, and Paul Allen will use the cap room to sign Kobe and bench him.

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by jscot on Oct 20, 2008 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would be for signing Kobe just to bench him.

by Bskey on Oct 20, 2008 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And to carry Roy's bags

by jscot on Oct 21, 2008 12:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

also

Our fabulous and generous owner will only have to pay 20% of his salary rather than the entire 100%.

by Philthyanimal on Oct 20, 2008 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

what are we waiting for? sign him!

and the not play him or trade him to olympicos or something

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by G_dubs on Oct 20, 2008 2:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Sorry Shavlik, sorry Stephen, we had to take our resident head case off the market

Ugh, tough sell. But it might really be the sensible thing to do (the sending to Europe, not him sitting grumpy at the end of the bench).

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by Norsktroll on Oct 20, 2008 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey KP, you can take your 15th roster spot and Shavlik!

(Sorry, I’ve been saving that one for awhile)

In other news, KP is off the hook for poisoning Miles’ chances at a comeback by speaking negatively re: his injury status last spring. After all, Ainge gave Darius a shot and Boston’s training camp verified that what the impartial league doctor had previously diagnosed.

(Just don’t excpect an apology to KP to be forthcoming from Dwight Jaynes…)

by two4larue on Oct 20, 2008 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs