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The somewhat tragic story of Darius Miles is one that young Golden State Warriors rookie Anthony Randolph should learn from. At the turn of the century Miles was a young, flashy, exciting forward with loads of potential (much more than Randolph) and even more attitude (some good- that funky head tapping with Q and a lot of bad- poor practice habits, ego, etc). Is Randolph the next Lamar Odom or the next Darius Miles? Only time will tell.

My buddy Dave from the top-notch Blazer's Edge gives the current Darius situation some mileage.

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i hope to god he's neither!

i want him to be an allstar!

by HoLdEmUP on Jan 9, 2009 11:38 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Warriors should sign D-Miles...

for 2 games and screw over the Blazers. They shouldnt be getting benefits of a player having a ‘career ending’ injury – when he can obviously still play. They deserve to pay his full salary.

by gobigg415 on Jan 9, 2009 12:52 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

I agree....

They are not the only team that signed a bad contract and the player got injured. I don’t know the whole story but that is weak sauce. If they get away with this then I think we should claim that jax and maggete have career ending injuries ;)

by nuttinbutnet on Jan 9, 2009 2:06 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Well, they are paying his full salary. He isn’t missing a dime. The issue is whether or not part of his salary counts against the cap or not. If he’s being signed for spite, to put him in for 2 games to make them have to pony up lux tax dollars, it’s not really indicating that he can play. It’s indicating that someone is willing to pull a spiteful move. Spiteful moves, designed just to screw someone else over without much benefit to the one making the move aren’t a good idea. It’s the sort of thing that makes someone want to retaliate and marks the spiter as untrustworthy. In a multiple million dollar pissing match, the Warriors don’t want to piss of Paul Allen if there’s really no on court benefit from Miles. Allen is fully capable of spending his billions to make things difficult for the Warriors in the future, and I suspect he would do just that, even if the lawsuit thing has no legs.

by jae on Jan 9, 2009 4:41 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Randolph

hopefully will be better than Odom, who has never gotten over being stupid. He will certainly be better than Miles, that is if a certain someone stops cryin to the media and puts the young gun in the game. We have all seen what Randolph can do in short bursts, but I think the most important thing is that Randolph is aggressive. As John Hollinger frequently says, turnovers are a good sign for a rookie, because it means that they are being aggressive and trying to make plays that will come together in the next few years. Randolph does not have a bad attitude- I would be pissed if I was the #1 pick for a sucky team that had no hope of winning and I wasn’t playing (something he has never experienced before). I’m hoping AR will turn in someone like Chris Bosh, although that is a tad optimistic.

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by marzorg on Jan 9, 2009 2:06 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

wow

i’m at a loss. i can’t believe this got leaked, or that nba business is actually as unethical as i thought. i mean, miles has been railroaded his whole career, but this is proof of a blatant attempt to blackball a player. why do i think the blazers will get away with this…

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by The Bimbo Coles Experience on Jan 9, 2009 6:47 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

As a Blazers fan ...

I can say that you really have an odd perception of Miles. After Darius signed his lucrative 5 year deal with the Blazers he started mailing it in the very next season, loafing on defense, walking up the court, poor practice habits, run-ins with the law surrounding guns being fired at strip clubs, etc.

Granted he did suffer a devastating knee injury, but he’s till collecting his full 9 million a year this year and next, even with the medical retirement. And if you read the e-mail sent out by the blazers to the rest of the league you’ll note that the issue isn’t so much if Miles gets signed to a legitimate contract, or becomes a contributing member of a team (more power to him I say), but rather if a team picks him up on a ten day contract and then trots him out on to the court for a couple of minutes in 2 games and then releases him, that has the definite stink of only trying to damage the Blazers financially by putting them 9 million dollars into the luxury tax — a luxury tax that teams like memphis will benefit from financially.

I will say that I think the Blazers handled this very poorly and the e-mail threatening litigation makes them look petty and small and I wish they had just let this lie instead of acting like major d-bags.

by nikolokolus on Jan 10, 2009 9:41 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

the e-mail threatening litigation makes them look petty and small and I wish they had just let this lie instead of acting like major d-bags.

  If they don’t like the rules they should get them changed instead of trying to strongarm teams. It seems like the rules of competition would make it necessary for some team to call the bluff? Not doing so sounds like a dereliction of duty to the fans?

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by Skeptic con Urquell on Jan 12, 2009 8:16 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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