MrJayremmie

good deal.

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It's_GO_Time

If he can help us win a damn game . . . I want him out there.

LameR

Isn't Miles' contract longer than Francis'? Francis was more cap relief oriented I though. Also, Miles been on the team, while Francis was just a guy signed to be cut. I'm not saying Miles is a great guy, or even an adequate player, but those are very different situations.

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wizmentor

Webster?

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craigehlo

Exactly. This season is already ending on a low note with all the losses, this is the last thing their image needs.

The only way this makes sense is if they need to run him out for a few games to prove to the insurance company that they tried in good faith to play him before a medical retirement.

deanwoof

or maybe play miles 40 minutes a game and pray his knees blow up on the court so he CAN medically retire?

damn i am evil at 1 in the morning

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KingSpeed

At the Lakers game in Portland, Darius was shooting before the game and hitting most of his shots.

KingSpeed

Who says we'll end the season with a bunch of losses. There are 21 games left to play. Why is everyone thinking the team has given up. The playoffs are starting to look out of reach, but that doesn't mean the team will or should give up. Don't give up on these guys. Let's get as good a record as we can and be proud of our success.

dwood615

i dont believe he would call him that word...he is black too...that makes no sense to me



but anyways...give him a shot to prove himself..screw it

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nikolokolus

This incident was well documented at the time, and FYI when the black people I know end the word in an 'a' it can be a term of endearment, but when it ends in 'er' that's pretty much the equivalent of Miles calling Cheeks an "Uncle Tom" -- highly disrespectful.

cpt.napalm

I think we need to at least give him a look who knows we may hoodwink some GM into taking him<cough> Isaiah <cough>. I am willing to give hime the benefit of the doubt about his recovery time. Having had knee surgery, and a knee injury that took a year and a half to diagnose let alone treat, and then 2 years of recovery since then I can understand why maybe it took him so long to come back. Recent successful microfracture surgeries on some big name players, Zach, Amare, Kidd, etc are positives, but there are the cases that don't go so well. Everyone expects the recovery to go like the best case outcomes. People don't remember that Darius' injury was extensive and on both knees and in a weight bearing areas.

He may not be the best person on the team, but there are better guys and a new culture, maybe the one guy, Darius, can rise up to the level of the rest of the team, not bring everyone else down. We are in a slump and need some fresh legs, something to shake things up. Innocent until proven guilty, can't hurt to bring him in off the bench and prove that he can still play or if he wants to coast though and just collect the check. The playoffs aren't happening unless someone else falters and we play like we did during our streak, which I don't see happening we are too beat up.

chris_in_pdx

Look, people... all of you irrational D-Miles haters can moan and whine about how you wish he wasn't on the team, but the fact of the matter is that he IS, he's being paid, he holds a roster spot, and he can apparently play. There's no valid reason to keep him off the court. And to the people that think that Darius' mere presence will corrupt the young fragile minds of Roy, Oden, Aldridge, and all the rest, need to get a grip. Zach Randolph was 10 times the cancer that Miles supposedly is, and all the young Blazers were subjected to him all of last year, and they seem to be fine. The only way that the Blazers will be able to trade Darius is for him to prove on the court that he can still play, so all of the "I hate Darius because he tried to play through an injury and dropped an 'N' Bomb on a long-since departed coach during an argument" people need to just accept reality.

ProZach

No, he can't.

Yes, there is.

No, he wasn't.

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