I will buy your kid some Blazer gear if I lose.

ohhhh now you tell us! lol good job NBA

its hard to know what moves would be off the table if the money is back on the cap but there’s definitely plenty of moves that can still be made.

we’re not paralyzed… more like a severely twisted ankle. KP is a gamer like BRoy he will play through it.

and this situation is of little importance to me, but I just read that report and was curious of fan reaction. The question I have is, why is this such a big deal? Any team that will be willing to pick him up for two games, probably would have picked him up for eight just as well. To me this new “finding” is totally overblown and it hardly changes anything. Also, the Blazers seem like a really smart organization, I find it hard to believe that something like this will be anything, but a glancing blow.

for a one of a kind Blazers Edge tshirt? everybody hear will want that bet, your ly like a fox Dave. you’ll have so much in winnings, youll have to report it to the IRS

… because we are going to trade the RLEC for a player. The Miles situation reduces the money we’d have to sign a FA, so it makes sense to add via a trade.

There is only one reason to write this article with all the other stories in this league. Boo the dynasty hater.

Why do those games count against our cap, but not his suspension? It seems like it should be regular season or every NBA sanctioned game, not some mix and match thing like is going on here. I share the sentiment that KP will figure out something to do, no matter whether or not he is on our cap.

I’m pretty sure this isn’t a big deal. The 10 game thing was probably the cut off for the rule. If a team picks him up and just plays him only two games, it’s obvious that the teams doing it to stick it to the Blazers. An appeal by the Blazers would win easily. If he goes to another team and sticks it out the rest of the season, then the Blazers would have to worry.

http://www.blazersedge.com/2009/1/5/709833/the-darius-miles-chronicle

I’m with you that it’s overblown reporting if we fear teams just do that to screw our cap space, and it likely won’t block the move KP wanted to make all along. But can we at least agree that if Darius comes back on our cap – and we lose a potential appeal – it a) costs Paul Allen a ton of money (this won’t matter much to him, though he is no fan of paying money for nothing either) and b) – would make free agent signings next summer way more complicated/limited and thus trades much more likely?

• Wojnarowski is right that we would become a luxury tax payer for the 2008/09 season, netting all non-tax-paying teams about $250K (TrueHoop with the background)
• The insurance would no longer pay a large part of Darius $18 million outstanding salary that comes back on our books
• Let’s assume the salary cap is about $60 million next season. In the current economy, it could actually stay on last year’s level or go down a bit, but that’s more of an important storyline for all the “We need LeBron” teams in 2010.
• As it stands we will have ca. $35 million in committed salary in the summer of 2009 (Roy, LMA, Greg, Martell, Jerryd, Joel, Rudy, Nic, a bit more than a million for a first round draft pick in the low twenties, small cap holds for the rights to PetKo and Freeland). Brings the free space to $25 million
• Add Steve ($4 million) and Travis ($3.6 million) non-guaranteed contracts, or whoever we would get back in a deal with that salary. Lowers the free space to $17.4 million
• Add $9 million for Darius, brings us to $8.4 million
• Add cap holds to make Channing ($9.5 million) and Ike ($8.74 million) restricted free agents, and there is nothing left. Even if let’s say we renounce Ike to let him walk for nothing and just quickly re-sign Channing for about the minimum of $4.3 there wouldn’t be much left. Who do you get for $4 million?

• That is with Raef off the books, so no new salary acquired for him in a trade before
• That is with Shavlik Randolph not re-signed
• That is without bringing Joel Freeland over, just his cap hold
• We will have no mid-level exception, only teams over the cap get that one

So in summary, can we agree that requires some serious cap wizardry to still sign an impact free agent, or without letting valuable assets walk for nothing?

Bush.

how was he allowed to play in the preseason BEFORE serving the suspention?

Anyone else find it odd that that Yahoo sports scooped this news, rather than the “professional” journalists who cover the team? Does the Oregonian need to buy them a telephone? {Glances over at Jason Quick and John Canzano, raising eyebrows….}

needs to just man up and break his shins with a baseball bat. Serve a few years in jail, but save the blazer’s franchise. Takers?

http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=24458

"Ray (San Antonio): Do you think someone will pick up Miles specifically to screw with the Blazers cap for this summer? Do you see anything wrong with that?

 John Hollinger: For those who haven’t been reading PER Diem, screwing Portland’s cap isn’t the main reason to sign Miles — the main reason is to get a piece of the $9 million tax payment the Blazers would have to make to every other team in the league. Split 29 ways that’s a little over $300K, and signing Miles to a 10-day and playing him the two required games (apparently the six exhibition games counted) would cost a fraction of that. So whomever signs him is basically turning a profit. "

Yeah so that medical retirement rule is clearly working as intended. What a joke. Why not just do away with the rule altogether if that’s how it’s going to be??

Miles always seemed more interested in the lime light and acting and living it up at the strip clubs than playing basketball. Maybe if he got back into acting he would just go away!

That’s the players union, for those keeping score… I would think they would have ample incentive for Paul Allen to be a big playa in the free agent market.

After reading Yahoo’s latest on the subject its clear this extra bit of cap space is very much important to the PTB’s. I don’t see how you can deny its importance in the big picture. 9 million dollars is 9 million dollars. In the NBA that buys a guy like Paul Millsap or Brandon Bass and a lot of players like them. Not getting that cap space back, very much interferes with our future plans. We’re finding out now, even when you tons of talent, things can still get rough.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Ap5rPz2HYLSwbMDzGcMDGba8vLYF?slug=aw-blazersthreat010809&prov=yhoo&type=lgns