Blazers Tried to Hide Darius Miles
Jan 13th 2009 11:00AM by Tom Ziller (author feed)
Filed under: Grizzlies, Trail Blazers, NBA RumorsAnother day, another cannonball lobbed at Portland. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! supplies it again, revealing that before threatening to sue any team that signed Darius Miles the Blazers attempted to claim the forward off waivers.
Had Portland been successful, the team would have been on the hook for the rest of his league minimum salary for 2008-09. But the benefit would come in stashing Miles on the bench and keeping him from Games 9 and 10, games that would (err, will) halve Portland’s summer cap space.Continue Reading

