So if he doesn’t play anymore this season, and we sign an overpriced RFA (as all RFA’s are) this summer, can they retroactively punish us for going over the cap? Other than dinging PA (which lets face it, is the least of our concerns) how could this hurt us?

Everyone is way too worried about this. Terms like ‘kiling cap’ are thrown around and aren’t just supported by the facts.

Without Darius, we have 35.25 million in committed salaries and unsigned draft picks cap holds for 09-10 – about than $25 million under the cap. With Darius, it’s $16 million under the cap. Enough to sign a max player or a combination of other players.

yes, to get all of this we renounce/waive Ike, Channing, Steve, and Outlaw. who cares. if we are signing someone worth that kind of contract, we’ll do it in a heartbeat.

One more thing – we could terminate/renounce any of these guys and still sign them back later using a different exception – like the mid level , biannual or the veteran minimum. the MLE would be plenty to sign any of the 4 of these guys.

So imagine a scenario where Miles comes back on the books and we want to sign a guy for $15 million. we renounce steve/to/ike/channing, sing the free agent, then we can potentially still use our MLE to sign back either TO or Steve (assuming one is expendable due to our new max contract free agent).

How exactly is any of this “killing our cap space” It’s not – that’s just alarmist rhetoric

“All along, the Blazers knew exactly that the preseason games counted, but a league official said Wednesday night, "He wanted to keep it quiet."”

This is not a sentence. Therefore anything he said about bad stuff happening to the blazers can’t possibly be true, poor journalism.