It's Always Sunny in Portland

[ABM]

http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2009/07/21/its-always-sunny-in-portland/

The salary cap is a fickle game in which GMs and owners are as turncoat and conniving as the brats on 90210.
Actually, it’s not like 90210 so much as it’s like another one of my favorite shows (yes, I like 90210).

One of my favorite TV shows is It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It’s irreverent, crude, hilarious, brilliant, and perfect for any person from the age of 16 to 60, that doesn’t still buy into the BS, ill-conceived notion that it’s wrong to judge people. There have been so many hilarious moments in this show’s history....

...So what does ANY of this have to do with the NBA salary cap situation? I’m glad you asked that.

Remember when the Portland Trailblazers tried to pass off Darius Miles as a broken down, must retire piece of cap relief? They tried to get his incomprehensible contract off of their books by saying he needed to retire due to injury and it nearly worked. In fact, had it worked the Blazers would have been about $16 million under the cap figure this off-season and in position to add one more major piece to their young core before the extensions of Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge start being discussed.
But something happened......................

 

[Blazerfan22]

yea the NBA screwed us...There DR's are the one's who said Miles could not play. Crazy.

 

[maxiep]

Clearly, that writer never saw Darius play for the Grizz. He could barely get up the court.

 

[Idog1976]

Still can't believe Wallace got away with what is increasingly obvious was just a cap hose job to net Luxury tax dollars. Ridiculous.

 

[Pinwheel1]

So the Darius fiasco prevented us from REALLY over paying an average free agent as opposed to just plain over paying him. It may be a blessing in disguise in a few years. There was not one free agent out there this year that we all can agree that we wanted.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I dunno...I'd like to be able to send Bayless, Blake and Outlaw for CP3 and Peja and not blink an eye. Now? Not so easy.

 

[Freshtown]

Title of this thread reminded me of this picture.