Darius Miles working out for the Spurs?

[MickZagger]

This has got to be a joke right?

 

[THE HCP]

They used to have Stephan Jackson as their starting 3..... anything can happen!

 

[BGrantFan]

I thought Darius was a no-doubt Bobcat this season. Larry Brown loves him!!!

 

[Nikolokolus]

I guess I don't get the joke

 

[jlprk]

I don't either. Why can't Canzano's hater followers understand that Miles has tried to play for years, but was denied the chance by Pritchard, in Pritchard's unethical scam to collect insurance (while Miles was a Blazer) and from his stupid letter (after Miles was a Blazer).

 

[BGrantFan]

I guess I don't get the joke

Darius was working out for Charlotte, and even was waving towels on the Charlotte bench during the Summer League. I guess that hasn't netted him a contract yet with Larry Brown, who! loves! him!

 

[BGrantFan]

I don't either. Why can't Canzano's hater followers understand that Miles has tried to play for years, but was denied the chance by Pritchard, in Pritchard's unethical scam to collect insurance (while Miles was a Blazer) and from his stupid letter (after Miles was a Blazer).

That was Larry Miller's email.

 

[Rhal]

Gotta love the Grizzlies giving him that shot were he played what 9 minutes a game? and it cost us a huge part of our cap space and saying it wasn't to screw us over that summer.
Besides that incident I dont' mind miles and hope he can provide something for a team that wants players with no knees.

 

[mgb]

Gotta love the Grizzlies giving him that shot were he played what 9 minutes a game? and it cost us a huge part of our cap space and saying it wasn't to screw us over that summer.Besides that incident I dont' mind miles and hope he can provide something for a team that wants players with no knees.

Wouldn't you do the same thing? I mean if I had the chance to sign someone and play him a couple mins a game to screw over the Lakers why not? If it didn't cost me much but kept the Lakers out of the FA market I'd do it in a sec if I was in position to do so. It's not the Grizzlies fault we sign Miles to a large contract.

 

[Rhal]

Wouldn't you do the same thing? I mean if I had the chance to sign someone and play him a couple mins a game to screw over the Lakers why not? If it didn't cost me much but kept the Lakers out of the FA market I'd do it in a sec if I was in position to do so. It's not the Grizzlies fault we sign Miles to a large contract.

Oh I don't blame them for doing it, I just think its stupid that they said it wasn't for that reason when everyone knew it was.

 

[hasoos]

A fool and his money are soon parted. Darius seems to have found a whole league being ran by fools.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I hear he's lost 80 pounds and can jump out of the gym!

 

[santeesioux]

It's actually a good thing Memphis tried to screw us out of the extra money, had they not, KP might have offered even more for Hedo. Lol Memphis can't even do that right.

 

[Natebishop3]

Darius is a genuinely nice guy. He just never cared much about hoops.

 

[STOMP]

Darius is a genuinely nice guy. He just never cared much about hoops.

ha! I was going to bring up this old argument at lunch to reference it as something that has obviously been disproven by time and actions but got sidetracked by work...

it was a suspect line of thinking when he was rehabbing back from knee surgery for the umpteenth time as a Trailblazer. Dude had guaranteed 10s of millions coming, he could have easily just retired with the setbacks he faced. That he's continued to try again and again to stick as an end of the bench guy with drastically reduced physical abilities backs up his public claim to love playing basketball.

STOMP

 

[BlazerCaravan]

his public claim to love playing basketball

...for money.

 

[STOMP]

...for money.

Certainly his goal is making an NBA roster, and they do pay for play. But so far pre-taxes, dude has earned 62M in his NBA career and I don't think anyone sees him adding much (if anything) to that substantial total. Of course it's only speculation trying to judge what motivates someone other then our selves and who knows how much of that total he's got banked, but it's my guess he can pretty easily afford to walk away from the game.

it's not like he's Jordan saying 30M+ or I retire... he's trying to make the end of any team's bench. Repeatedly he's failed at that but he keeps trying. I'm sure that to get another tryout he's had to be training on his own for a while now. Is Juwan Howard doing it for the money too or might he love game as he claims?

STOMP

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Certainly his goal is making an NBA roster, and they do pay for play. But so far pre-taxes, dude has earned 62M in his NBA career and I don't think anyone sees him adding much (if anything) to that substantial total. Of course it's only speculation trying to judge what motivates someone other then our selves and who knows how much of that total he's got banked, but it's my guess he can pretty easily afford to walk away from the game.

it's not like he's Jordan saying 30M+ or I retire... he's trying to make the end of any team's bench. Repeatedly he's failed at that but he keeps trying. I'm sure that to get another tryout he's had to be training on his own for a while now. Is Juwan Howard doing it for the money too or might he love game as he claims?

STOMP

Sorry for sounding cynical about this, but I've heard too many "Athlete Who Made $50million over his career is now broke, drunk, divorced, and suicidal" stories to think that Darius has $62mil in bonds quietly earning 2% every year while he conservatively lives life on $1,240,000 a year. In other words, I think Darius is broke, and needs a job.

But you know, if he is still rich and is doing this for fun, more power to him. As for Juwan... I think he's actually living his life as per above, so again, more power to him.

 

[STOMP]

Sorry for sounding cynical about this, but I've heard too many "Athlete Who Made $50million over his career is now broke, drunk, divorced, and suicidal" stories to think that Darius has $62mil in bonds quietly earning 2% every year while he conservatively lives life on $1,240,000 a year. In other words, I think Darius is broke, and needs a job.

But you know, if he is still rich and is doing this for fun, more power to him. As for Juwan... I think he's actually living his life as per above, so again, more power to him.

Picking and choosing which athlete will fail isn't thinking so much as mean spirited projection. Those sorts of fall from grace stories do make the rounds, but I don't make assumptions on which athlete will similarly fail going forward as I don't know any of them. Hell, I've heard some living the high life stories about Juwan. What I do know about Darius is that he's still trying despite many setbacks and drastically reduced ability

STOMP

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Picking and choosing which athlete will fail isn't thinking so much as mean spirited projection. Those sorts of fall from grace stories do make the rounds, but I don't make assumptions on which athlete will similarly fail going forward as I don't know any of them. Hell, I've heard some living the high life stories about Juwan. What I do know about Darius is that he's still trying despite many setbacks and drastically reduced ability

Darius has not played any significant minutes except to change the source of the money from his multi-million dollar final contract year. Forgive me for having a hard time mustering sympathy for him. I don't *actively hope* he's broke and drug-addled. But let's be real: Darius and Juwan are not really comparable people with comparable personalities.

I applaud your ability to make no judgments whatsoever; that makes you a better person than others. I'm one of the others you're better than. I think I can deal.

 

[hasoos]

Darius is a genuinely nice guy. He just never cared much about hoops.

I don't blame him for trying to secure another contract. Hell why not? Bling Bling man. Bling Bling.

 

[jlprk]

Yawn. Both of you are right. Like all other pros, he plays for both money and because he likes to play.

 

[THE HCP]

Shit...... I play for the bitches!

 

[Natebishop3]

ha! I was going to bring up this old argument at lunch to reference it as something that has obviously been disproven by time and actions but got sidetracked by work...

it was a suspect line of thinking when he was rehabbing back from knee surgery for the umpteenth time as a Trailblazer. Dude had guaranteed 10s of millions coming, he could have easily just retired with the setbacks he faced. That he's continued to try again and again to stick as an end of the bench guy with drastically reduced physical abilities backs up his public claim to love playing basketball.

STOMP

You're basing your opinion that he cares about basketball entirely on his attempts to continue playing basketball, but we could just as easily say that those attempts to continue to play are for monetary gain.

All I know is, I was told from sources within the organization that Darius' mother was the driving force behind him getting to the NBA in the first place, and that he never really had the desire or the love of the game to be a good player. Like I said, he's a really nice guy, but it's hard to draw any other conclusion based on his body of work.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Well, whatever the reason(s) Darius continues to pursue his career I hope he enjoys playing ... or enjoys making money ... or something.