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http://tinyurl.com/9zyxcw
By Kelly Dwyer
The Darius Miles saga could be over soon, in a way.
If the Grizzlies forward plays against the Jazz on Friday, we will see the
NBA credit his former team's payroll with the agreed-upon contract terms that
are now being shelled out to Darius by way of insurance checks.
His former team, the Portland Trail Blazers, will be on the hook for around
$18 million for this season and next; and while the Paul Allen-led franchise
doesn't mind adding to the bottom line if it brings in a winner, this does
severely curtail the team's plans to have about $20 million in cap space this
summer, and even more during the 2010 offseason.
So you can understand why the Trail Blazers, under GM Kevin Pritchard, having
been trying dissuade teams from thinking that Miles could play NBA-level
basketball after undergoing microfracture knee surgery in 2006. The Blazers
declared him medically unfit to play a year ago, which meant that his salary
(already covered by insurance) would come off the salary cap books if Miles
couldn't play a certain number of games in the season directly following his
release.
Miles was an underachieving talent who never appeared to really love the
game, so it seemed like a match made in heaven when the divorce was
finalized: Darius doesn't really have to rehab within an inch of his life,
while still collecting checks, and the Blazers would be replete with cap
space in order to add talent to its already-formidable roster.
But 2008 was an odd time for Miles to have the first attack of conscience in
his career.
After barely being bothered to own up to his lackadaisical play and boorish
locker room behavior in stops with the Clippers, Cavaliers, and Trail
Blazers, Darius finally found basketball religion last year, and attempted a
comeback with the Boston Celtics. The problem for Portland was and is that,
should Darius play in 10 preseason or regular season games with an NBA team,
the insurance claim is nullified in the NBA's eyes (if not the insurer's),
and his contract counts against the salary cap.
Portland got to work, leaking word of a drug suspension that would
co-incidentally cost him the first 10 games of his 2008-09 season, and though
this probably wasn't the reason Boston released him after playing six
preseason games, it didn't help. Memphis signed Darius to a non-guaranteed
contract in December, just as Portland sent out word that it would attempt to
take legal action if the team could prove another franchise was deliberately
trying to mess with its salary cap structure. Of course, the Blazers couldn't
ever prove this, but it was worth a shot.
In the meantime, Miles was released by the Grizzlies before his season-long
contract became guaranteed, scooped up soon after on a 10-day deal, and now
he's a game away from costing Portland a shot at reeling in a big fish this
summer. This was after, Woj (who has been killing it; kindly bow down,
people) reported, Portland tried to claim Miles on waivers in order to keep
him off some other team's roster.
And, nearing the end, I'm having a hard time getting too upset over any of
this.
If I'm honest, I don't like Portland losing all that cap space. I'm not a
fan, but I do like seeing teams with flexibility, especially when it comes in
the form of an expiring (in a way) deal belonging to a player who isn't with
the team any more. An out of shape Miles has nothing to offer me as an NBA
fan at this point, and there's nothing that can be gained by the average fan
if Miles plays and every team racks up an extra $290k bonus this summer by
way of Portland's luxury tax dole-out.
And, really, I'm hoping there's more to Memphis' machinations beyond just
slightly making every other team happier, and grabbing a few hundred thousand
of their own. They can't possibly want Miles, not with his current game, and
certainly not with the absolute best of his skill set already prominently
featured on the Grizzlies in the form of Rudy Gay and Hakim Warrick. You'd
like to think that they could use Miles to do something to, you know,
actually better their team.
There's the idea of the Grizzlies holding Miles' playing status over
Portland's head as a sort of ransom, used to get some sort of compensation
for the Trail Blazers, and nobody (not Trail Blazer fans, the team, the
league, the Players Association) should have any issue with that in the
slightest. It was brought up on Tuesday's Basketball Jones video podcast, it
smacks of everyone getting what they want, and what's the problem with that?
Memphis is under the cap. Well under it. Portland could send, say, Travis
Outlaw and Ike Diogu to the Grizzles for conditional second round draft
picks, and it would be cap legal. And though Outlaw is a few days removed
from dropping 33 points, and a fine player, wouldn't he be worth sacrificing
in order to take on huge gobs of cap space? If I were Kevin Pritchard, and
that was the price to pay, I wouldn't waste a second in making that happen.
The Players Association couldn't moan about it, because Miles would be
getting paid (both in insurance money, and whatever minimum salary he would
agree to over the rest of the year with Memphis), and if nothing is put in
writing, nothing could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The Grizzlies
would get a player or two that they could actually use (unlike Miles), and
the Trail Blazers would get their cap space.
Still, this would mean everyone would be happy. So everyone's going to have a
problem with that.
And adding free talent to his roster might not Memphis owner Michael
Heisley's top concern at this point. We've heard for years that every
thousand bucks counts to this guy, even as he was doling out millions to Dick
Versace and/or Chuck Daly. Perhaps, just as Portland is now paying the price
for overpaying those who didn't deserve it with Miles, Heisley has to go
through a little retroactive recouping of his own.
And we should come correct in talking about the Trail Blazers.
Should they have signed Miles in the first place? Were they pushing it by
calling Darius unfit to play after he underwent a surgery that, while
potentially devastating, has been successfully rehabilitated from time and
time again? Were the drug leak and last week's emails pretty skeevy? Have
they won many friends around the league with the way they've handled the
Miles case?
No, yes, totally, teams hate them.
And their fans? This team's fans should love them.
The Trail Blazer brass is going way, way, way out of its way to better this
team. They don't care how it looks, and they don't care how much money they
have to spend, they want to develop a champion. And in a league full of cut
corners and executives just looking to hang onto their jobs, this is
refreshing, and (dare I say) admirable. This team wants to win.
And unless Memphis works this Miles situation to its advantage in basketball
terms, you can't say that about the Grizzlies. They're the ones that will
sell out for a few hundred thousand. They're the ones that are thinking about
the bottom line 20 times before thinking about what happens on the court. And
I don't want to hear any nonsense coming out of Tennessee about just how
highly they regard Miles as a potential contributor, and how he's worth a
look. Don't even start.
So hem and haw at the underhanded way Portland tried to work Darius' injury
to their advantage. They saw an opportunity to make their team better, way
better, and went for it. This is the sort of thing that Red Auerbach was all
over for the first 30 years of this league, and people wrote books about him.
Could Pritchard have handled it better? Of course. But, for his team and the
fan base that supports it, he took a chance. That's not something to get
angry over.
這是在Yahoo Sports上面的文章
然後還有這篇http://tinyurl.com/94kfss
裡面有些討論也還不錯
鑒於英文太長,我現在也很累懶的翻
就給大家練練reading吧XD
不過Oregon Live上面有個鄉民的意見我還蠻喜歡的
Posted by superflyz on 01/14/09 at 9:57AM
The solution to this problem is so simple from my perspective: The salary
comes off the Blazer's books as soon as the LEAGUE doctor declares him
medically retired, period. The Blazers are still responsible for paying the
remaining salary in the original contract, it just doesn't count toward cap
space. If another team wants to take a gamble, great. If Miles wants to stay
retired and collect the money left on his contract, great. Everyone wins, no
one is screwed.
I understand the point of the rules are to discourage teams from kicking
injured players to the curb, but if the league provides the doctor that
determines end-of-career injury, why should the Blazers be left holding the
bag if it turns out he still can play?
The point of a salary cap is to prevent teams with more resources from
dominating teams with fewer resources by being able to sign more high
quality/high salary players, but it makes no sense here; The Blazers are
burdened by Miles' salary on their books (not to mention having to pay it),
while Miles is getting paid for his services in a separate contract by
another team. It makes no sense at all.
然後下面他還有說
既然他的9M薪水要算在Cap裡，那為什麼不能拿來交易呢？
只能說Miles這個案子真的是特例
目前現在看來我們是無法避免了
不過我還是相信KP
他一向都能以最少的籌碼打出最好的牌
Go!Blazers!
Go!R.I.P CITY!
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