The Blazers are Willing to Sue Other Teams Over Darius Miles
The Blazers vs. DMiles saga has suddenly turned from merely annoying and boring, to downright insane. Portland has issued a stern warning to the rest of the League, should they sign the lanky forward whose contract could wreak havoc on their salary cap.
Here’s the letter in its entirety, via Sports Illustrated:
“Team Presidents and General Managers,”
“The Portland Trail Blazers are aware that certain teams may be contemplating signing Darius Miles to a contract for the purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers Salary Cap and tax positions. Such conduct from a team would violate its fiduciary duty as an NBA joint venturer. In addition, persons or entities involved in such conduct may be individually liable to the Portland Trail Blazers for tortuously interfering with the Portland Trail Blazers’ contract rights and perspective economic opportunities.
“Please be aware that if a team engages in such conduct, the Portland Trail Blazers will take all necessary steps to safeguard its rights, including, without limitation, litigation.”
Adding to the madness, it was recently revealed that Miles really only needs to play in a couple more of games (instead of eight, as previously thought) to screw the Blazers financially.
Of course, now there’s talk that Miles might respond by suing Portland for trying to limit his right to work. I hope he does, and absolutely takes them to the cleaners.
who exactly is trying to screw them?
We sooo need Shoals to weigh in on this haha.
So, what if they sign him for the whole season, instead of just one or two games?
Also, Miles would definitely win a lawsuit IF said team kept him for a whole season.
i hate when players can’t take their turn point to whoever knows what song that is from. no cheating.
At the end of the day the blazers signed the contract so need to accept the consequences. If teams didn’t think to hire D. Miles to screw the Blazers before you can bet your a$$ they will now.
At the end of the day the blazers signed the contract so need to accept the consequences.” Yes, but contracts are not so cut and dry. Until I hear the players union saying this is sh– then I will assume it is legit standard operating procedure. Darius also signed the contract and should be prepared for what parts of it HE is violating.
– BS. For them to have some sort of basis for litigation they would basically need a written document from Team X that would say that they’re signing Miles for the sole ‘purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers Salary Cap and tax positions’. I could only see it working if Miles signes a 10-day with the Wolves.
I don’t really feel bad for Miles because a) he makes his 22 million anyway and b) he’s not NBA quality anymore. He really should be in the Euroleague.
The shut up and take it you’re a millionaire attitude is amazing isn’t it?
It’s everywhere with fans of every sport. I’m telling you, money buys a lot of souls these days. For real.
If you think that earning a bunch of money limits your ability to speak your mind or complain, then your are basically saying you’re willing to sacrifice your constitutional rights for cash. Wait, scatch that, you’re willing to scratch your rights a human, since that’s what inalienable really was getting at.
I have sympathy for people if they are being wronged. Period. How much money they have is irrelevant.
I don’t know why Portland released a statement, they could have just let the word out. Now, if Miles DOES NOT sign with a team this year, he could sue them this summer for infringement of his right to work.
I saw Miles play in the preseason, he isn’t the player he once was, but he’s not a total bum. He could be an 11th or 12th man on several teams.
So, is he betraying Portland if he pursues that dream just because they paid him money? How does that work? He signed a contract, Portland is OBLIGATED to pay him.
The could have just bought him out and said good look. Instead, they decided to medically retire him because they gambled he wasn’t good enough to get signed somewhere else. They may be wrong.
Why is True Hoop evil? It’s a little biased about certain things, but that’s to be expected on most blogs. And it’s owned by ESPN, which is in fact evil.
But, Abbott doesn’t seem evil. He just seems fairly typical.
“Hey Blazers, tell me how my contract taste”
they’re gonna have to trade some of that talent now. Roy, Aldridge are gonna get HUGE extensions, and guys like Outlaw, Oden, Batum, Rudy, etc. are gonna want some money as well.
Say goodbye to your players, Portland. You won’t be able to afford keeping all of that talent. Though it will be sad. That’s a doozy, isn’t it Blazers?
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