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 ;)

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.

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.