Darius Miles waived by the Celtics... Kings MUST SIGN HIM!!!

Jesus.

He hasn’t played in two years since microfracture surgery, and anyone who signs him has to sit him for ten games for substance abuse violations.

We need to figure out where the hell Keno Clark disappeared to.

Rocks are free, and slingshots easily stolen.

by andy sims on Oct 20, 2008 4:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Jesus had microfracture surgery?

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Oct 20, 2008 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I heard he has a mad crossover

it might be worth the risk

Woof

by Charles Barkley McLovin on Oct 20, 2008 5:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Clark is off getting DUI’s, driving on a suspended licence, and carrying pot on him at all times it seems but yea, hed be better that D. Miles.
It has nothing to do with Darius and his knee, this is about giving portland their own version of K9 for the next two years.

by passionforPERPS on Oct 20, 2008 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey why you gotta be like that?

After the circa 2000 Blazers crashed and burned the Kings became my secondary team to root for. There isn’t much bad blood between the teams or the fans. Besides, we have a mutual interest in kicking the L*kers in the jimmy.

Even as a Blazer fan one of my all-time favorite youtube clips is Doug Christie uppercutting Rick Fox.

by tweener on Oct 20, 2008 5:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

ummm...

That is cute and all, but the Portland roster is stocked with a ton of young talent. There are at least 7 free agents on the team this year and that $9 million would make it a tad bit harder to resign them. Also, they jumped in front of the Kings and stole Bayless.
Kings should sign him to the minimum and stick him at the end of the bench and when he comes back from suspension he can play the final minute of each first half or something. I mean seriously, this is the biggest no brainer in the history of no brainers.

Now you see that evil shall always triumph over good, because good is dumb!

by TrojanCBB on Oct 20, 2008 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

it would be interesting to see what the League would do...

if the Kings did something that transparent. The intent of the 10 game clause in the rule was to prevent teams from retiring a player medically and then that same team bringing the player back (see Knicks/Alan Houston). A second team bringing on the player was not envisioned. How would Stern react to a malicious act like that?

You have a nice young team – do you want Miles around them for the minimum 20 games it would require?

And a question: do you have roster spots open? If not, who gets cut, realeased or bought out?

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"una canasta a Pau en la cara" Rudy

by Honka Playboy on Oct 20, 2008 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmm...

A few facts.

There are three free agents on the team this year. All RFA, which means Portland can match if they want to. One is Diogu. Perhaps we should just say that there are two free agents.

Short on money? Paul Allen has a few bucks lying around, not going to be a problem.

How much cap space will Portland have? Well, assuming they exercise their options to keep Outlaw and Blake, probably either around $12-14 million or $21-23 million, depending on Miles. Will it be hard for them to re-sign Frye and Webster? Not at all. Diogu? Meh. He’ll be looking elsewhere unless he is used as salary match in a trade before the deadline.

So why does the cap space matter? Only if they decide to go after an established star, either as a free agent or taking someone’s salary dump. And since the Blazers already have Oden, Aldridge, and Roy, it is not very likely they’ll be looking for a max player. They aren’t too likely to spend more than about $10 million of that cap space anyway. So Darius probably doesn’t matter. It might impact Portland’s flexibility a little, but probably not in a way that would impact anything they would have done.

Oh, but they need to re-sign Roy and Aldridge to big bucks? Yes, for the 2010-11 season. And Darius will be off the books by then, anyway.

If you sign Darius and play him, you might limit something Portland might want to do, but it isn’t actually very likely. The Kings have always been classy. Build your team, don’t try to mess up other teams.

Disclosure: I’m a Blazers fan. But the facts I’ve posted are still facts, even if they come from a tainted source like me.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 20, 2008 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Believe him, folks.

Jscot is about as tainted as they get.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 21, 2008 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not just that, he's a biased Blazer homer, too!

"It's not a joke -- it's not a game." — B-Rex

by timbo on Oct 21, 2008 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I do everything to perfection

even tainting.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 12:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We don't need him

and we don’t need the bad karma that would come from sending an FU to Portland.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 20, 2008 6:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Exactly

Cross Pritchard and WATCH OUT!

He who laughs last thinks slowest.

by prezofdeath on Oct 20, 2008 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

F@ck Pritchard

Karma is much bigger than some over hyped young GM.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 21, 2008 4:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You think Kevin Pritchard is over-hyped?

.
Say hello to…
.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 21, 2008 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Huh

Glad you didn’t jump to any conclusions there, like instantly linking jealousy with a fairly reasonable statement . . . oh wait, you did.

I didn’t see anything there stating that KP wasn’t a good (or even great) GM, just that he is young and getting too much hype at the moment. Is your stance that Pritchard is not hyped enough? In my opinion, he’s made some fantastic personnel moves, but is getting a lot recognition for an unknown product.

Personally, I’m glad for Portland fans that things are working out well up there, but I have to say that I’m very disappointed with the attitude I’ve seen from some of them here (I’m not including you from what I’ve seen thus far). You might want to refer them to the classic line from The Wolf (in Pulp Fiction), because this team hasn’t even made the playoffs yet.

by smgmatt on Oct 21, 2008 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kfan drops an f-bomb on KP and calls him overhyped

and you don’t see that as implying he’s not doing a great job? Wow, you guys are hard to please. I follow the NBA and I haven’t been reading all the hype about KP you seem to think is out there. Please point me to your sources because I know a bunch of Blazer fans who would like to read about it.

Even if KP is overhyped, in what way has he not earned it? No one in Blazer Land did anything but applaud when Geoff Petrie made Exec of the Year. Why the hate?

Full disclosure: I’m a longtime Blazer fan, but I’ve been following the Kings since the Mitch Richmond days. I live an hour from Sacramento and consider the Kings my #2 team. So I have nothing but love and good wishes for them. The two teams have a lot in common. You guys should be happy for our turnaround, good fortune, and success, just as many of us were happy for you during the Webber years and outraged about Game 6. If you don’t like some of our fans, guess what, neither do I. Show me a fan base that doesn’t consist of at least 10% wackos, including yours. Positive Dave, anyone? (God rest his soul.) Why make a big deal out of a few Blazer fans using the annoying and idiotic term “Pritchslap” or delighting in talking smack when we were the laughingstock of the league for years? Aren’t we entitled to a little exuberance now?

And please stop with the tiresome “you haven’t won anything yet,” which some folks will be saying right up to the point that we win a championship.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 21, 2008 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

My response

was in response to prezofdeath “over-hyping” Pritchard on a Kings blog. In my small mind the proper response to any trash talk from a fan of another team on this blog is F@ck <insert object of other fan’s admiration here>.

I think Pritchard has done a fine job. The Blazers have a very exciting young core. They make the playoffs this year and find a way to keep their core together and continue to improve through the process of signing their players to their 2nd contracts and I would then elevate him to one of the best GMs in the league. At this point, I wouldn’t say much more than it looks like he’s doing a very good job stockpiling youth and using his owners deep pockets to obtain draft picks.

I ~~have~~ had no feelings one way or the other towards the Blazers. Though that is starting to change. In the last year or so fans of only 2 teams come here and talked crap. Lakers fans and Blazers fans. They are starting to look a lot like the same thing to me. I’m not saying that you were talking crap BTW.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 21, 2008 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thank you.

That taste in my mouth must be something else… You’ll forgive us for almost anything if we beat the Lakers in the playoffs.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 21, 2008 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

Over-hyping should stay at home. Nothing wrong with it in your own territory, that’s part of being a fan, but you don’t take it on the road.

I would disagree with you somewhat, in that I think he’s done more than stockpiling youth. He’s also put together a nicely-balanced mesh of talents. For the most part, anyway, this more than just a team of talented young players — it is a team whose talents complement each other nicely and fit together well. That’s a lot harder to do than just stockpile talent.

I think Pritchard has shown he is great at building a team from the ground up (he’s obviously had some luck, too). Whether he is great at completing the task of making a championship team and maintaining it, we don’t know yet, do we?

Anyway, all that aside, if you are upset at another fan overhyping his team or making an idiot of himself (fans do that?), why drop the F-bomb on Pritchard? That seems kind of crazy. It’s not his fault that fans do what fans do. I generally like to direct my fire at the person who is actually doing something to which I object, rather than shooting at someone they happen to like.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 1:04 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You may be right

but I don’t think my comment matters to Pritchard one way or the other. And I thought my comparison of him to Karma kind of set a tongue in cheek tone. I could have said, “Your mentioning of another team’s GM on our website is disrespectful.” But I thought my response was more fun.

Regarding the Blazers talent. How well the talent meshes is really yet to be seen. As I said, when the Blazers make the playoffs and keep all of the talent happy and go on to make a serious run, I’m all for calling KP a genius.

I’m not sure why you felt the need to call me crazy, but whatever.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 22, 2008 4:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I didn't call YOU crazy

I said that one comment you made seemed kind of crazy to me. YOU make a lot of sense, in general, it seems to me.

Perhaps since the Bedge has rules against what you did, it just seemed extreme to me. And actually, a lot of people seem serious about karma, so I didn’t realize you were tongue in cheek, either.

Anyway, I don’t think we’re actually disagreeing on anything substantively. Thanks for the conversation.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not to belabor the point

But many people here think Blazer fans are becoming a bit over-zealous.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 4:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Really?

Honestly, if you had the kind of young talent and potential that we have, wouldn’t you get a wee bit zealous, too? And after all, we are fans. Doesn’t over-zealous sort of come with the territory?

But like I said, over-hyping should stay on home ground, and not everybody does that. And some Blazer fans are certainly guilty, too. Bad manners, really, to dump that stuff here. It’s not like you guys care about my highly optimistic predictions of how many games we’ll win.

On the other hand, you might care about my opinion on the Miles thing, or at least we might have an interesting discussion about it.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes it comes with the territory

But bringing it into another house is not something that will net you a lot of reciprocity. Which we clearly agree on

I don’t think the Kings will want MIles for a variety of reasons. They don’t need him, have 3 players to play the position, without Cisco who’s hurt, and with Cisco, 4 players to play it. Why do they need Miles?

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed, thanks

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm curious

Just what all those kids who want big contracts will do as the season rolls into the second half. Could be good – could be very bad. Fighting for dollars can lead to selfish play.

Cisco? Cisco? CISCO!!!! #*$!%! !

by lietothegirls on Oct 27, 2008 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The only ones up for new contracts this year

are Webster, Frye, and Diogu. Diogu will live on the bench, anyway.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 28, 2008 2:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks Kfan

That sums it up for me as well.

MiledAnimal, I don’t understand this statement:

Why the hate?

In my comment, I said the following:

In my opinion, he’s made some fantastic personnel moves…

and

Personally, I’m glad for Portland fans that things are working out well up there…

I have no hate for Portland, but as Kfan pointed out, the only people who seem to come and talk trash here are Lakers fans and Blazers fans . . . and they do sound similar.

I guess the obvious question is, why feel the need to talk trash here? Especially when the Blazer-fan party line appears to be “Portland’s on their way up, Sacramento isn’t even a contender”, why not take that to the teams you “expect” to be facing off against? That’s all I was referring to.

Also, I agree completely that no fanbase exists “that doesn’t consist of at least 10% wackos” . . . I’ll just add that you’re probably generously low in that estimate.

by smgmatt on Oct 22, 2008 7:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kfan was the one who dropped the f-bomb,

not you, smgmatt. Maybe he does that a lot and no one here thinks anything of it, but I check-in from time to time and have never noticed it before. Suddenly, he’s saying it about KP. Oh well, no big deal. This is your fan blog, so blast away if you feel a visitor is being disrespectful. But comparing us to Laker fans? Ouch…

P.S. If it makes y’all feel better, I recently spoke-up for Sacramento (the city) on another blog.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 22, 2008 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fair enough

I read his original “f-bomb” as synonomous with “F-THAT, I’m talking about THIS”.

This just happened to be “Karma”, and that was “KP”.

For whatever it’s worth, I didn’t read it as an anti-Pritchard comment, as KP could have been replaced with anything in that scenario.

I was under the assumption that the defense of KP had to do with the comment about him being over hyped, and thought it was a bit of a leap to assume that the statement was made out of jealousy/envy (the “green-eyed monster” image response). I had ignored the “bomb” completely at that point.

by smgmatt on Oct 22, 2008 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh no!

not the F-bomb. You guys are really sensitive. I apologize for hurting your feelings.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 22, 2008 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Blazer's Edge doesn't allow swearing

That’s partly where I think the confusion is coming in.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ah

makes more sense now.

Dear Blazer fans: I apologize for breaking the rules of the blog where you all should be posting. < /snark>

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 22, 2008 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

This bothers you more than I

I’m kinda shrugging at it personally. I just don’t really care at all anymore what they say or do here.

That being said there is a line and a few are getting to the point where they’re constant chatter on the wrong side of arrogance will cross that line that is intolerable.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I actually find it more funny than

anything. I imagine a thread at a Blazers Blog something like this:

<3 GO forever: OMG I was just at SacTownRoyalty and they’re talking about signing Miles.

KPwillPwnU: And now they’re saying Kevin Martin dunked on Oden.

LAisL33t: Well that dog ain’t gonna hunt. Let’s round us up a posse and go set them cowtown boys straight.

All: Yeah, let’s go get ’em.

But I will always defend the home turf against trash talk from outside.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 22, 2008 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tru tru

I could point out all the differences & similarities of Portland vs Sacramento (And throw Seattle/SF-Bay and LA in that mix, but I’m not sure anybody would care.)

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

LOL

Apology accepted, but only because I’m magnanimous like that.

It’s not a matter of expecting the same rules, really. It’s just that Dave at Blazer’s Edge is a pastor, and there’s no swearing. So swearing there is almost like swearing in a church, and the sites are linked, so when we pop over through a link from there and we’re practically already members….

It’s just that we came over here with a particular mindset from hanging out there, and it just seemed….

Oh, never mind. It all comes from posting on a blog without hanging out there long enough to get the feel of the place, I suppose.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bingo at the last sentence

I know the rules of Blazers Edge, and I know because I’ve violated them without even knowing. It is just that strict. Which is fine. I have no problem with it, and if you read anything you write, you know just about everything would be banned off BE too. Which is fine. I don’t post on BE so it’s not a problem. (And TZ probably gives me more latitude than he would others in a similar circumstance. In fact I know this is the case, but I’m not exactly sure why. I do know it’s nice though.)

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Theories

1. TZ thinks you are cute.
2. You have compromising pictures of him.
3. Other things I can’t discuss because I could get banned from BE just for posting them here.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh that is just too much

I object mostly because I didn’t think of it myself.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Lighten up Francis

We’ve done plenty of the hyping of Kevin Pritchard here at the site. I think Section and I deified him during the draft.

An innocuous comment by a Blazers fan is mild in comparison, IMO.

Kevin Pritchard has Chuck Norris tied up in the trunk of his car.

by otis29 on Oct 22, 2008 5:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wasn't me

I think that he’s done a nice job, but I’m going to wait for him to celebrate a playoff and series win before a I start carving out a bust for him.

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by section214 on Oct 22, 2008 6:57 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Yup I'm with ya

Gotta put up before you don’t gotta shut up.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 7:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fair enough.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 22, 2008 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That is an evil idea

I like

AK47, SN13, B52, and K9. One guns, Another runs, He fits, while it licks.

by CAB on Oct 20, 2008 7:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Sounds like a good idea

they took bayless after all

by Shizzo on Oct 20, 2008 8:57 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The Blazers are already stacked...

………………………….. all signing Darius would do is run another $20 million or something on Paul Allen’s credit card, and he’s a multibillionaire, so that’s ultimately not a big rip either.

Blazer official party line is that all the cap room will come in handy next summer, but they’ve got Roy and LMA and Oden and Fernandez who will need to be paid in the coming years, so I don’t really think that the cap space will ultimately be all that valuable to KP anyway.

t

"It's not a joke -- it's not a game." — B-Rex

by timbo on Oct 21, 2008 12:09 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I question several things

Why would the Blazers want another Superstar when they have 3 almost surefire all-stars on that roster anyway? (Besides they need to make the playoffs to figure out exactly what they’re going to do I imagine.)

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 21, 2008 12:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You're right

That’s why the cap space isn’t really that big a deal to Portland, unless one of our big guns goes down with a major, major injury.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 21, 2008 3:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And since Oden already fits that bill

They’re not likely going to find anybody to replace Oden with all that money in Free Agency anyway. Yeah, as I said, it’s just dumb.

And I really really don’t like Darius Miles.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 21, 2008 8:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Blazers still can be improved at the 1 and the 3...

……………………… But I don’t think it’s going to be a high-profile, big money free agent signing that will make that happen. More likely Paul Allen will buy another draft pick or two and KP will make a sneaky trade or two and net a Euro. It’s not like Lebron is going to suddenly say, “Gee, I don’t really want to go to NYC after all — I wanna play in Portland.” The Blazers will be in salary cap hell in a couple years with their CURRENT cast of characters…

Signing Miles wouldn’t materially impact the team one way or the other, other than cost a guy who can well afford it a pile of money.

t

"It's not a joke -- it's not a game." — B-Rex

by timbo on Oct 21, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

To all the Blazer fans

First off, and I must say this knowing that I don’t care about Miles except that I know I don’t want him in Sac, is that the Kings shouldn’t worry about Pritchard, or the fact that the Blazers got Jeryd Bayless. That was as much Indiana’s doing as it was the Kings, and it could turn out, because we just don’t know, that Jason Thompson could have a greater impact farther down the road than Bayless will. So to say the Kings got Pritch slapped is just dumb (and the fact that that are people saying that makes me laugh mostly) among other things.

But that is where I think this post came from, and that’s where the “Screw Blazers” sentiment comes from. Personally I could care less about Miles and think he’s a horrible idea and should be happy he doesn’t have to play basketball and focus on something else. Go to school and become a teacher or something.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 21, 2008 12:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Outta curiosity Portlanders

Do they have Tully’s down there? Or is that just a Seattle chain?

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 21, 2008 1:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes.

It has spread southward. On the flip side, Portland returned the favor by opening a McMenamins on Roy in Seattle a few years back.

by DonkeyShins on Oct 21, 2008 9:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know McMenamins well

Unfortunately I work for Yellow Cab and get an occasional call from there (although most of them say they’re at Solo which is at the same place).

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 21, 2008 5:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We have fans who get that way, too

No big deal, really.

Petrie is going to be trying to improve his team, not mess with someone else’s plans. If he isn’t, he needs to be fired.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 21, 2008 3:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree with that sentiment

I’m still not sure the Kings would be better off with Bayless anyway. I wanted the Kings to draft Marresse Speights anyway.

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by pookeyguru on Oct 21, 2008 8:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

We'll probably never know

Bayless’ development with Portland will probably be different than it would have been with the Kings. But I can sure understand why some Kings fans wanted him. I think in 2-3 years people will be calling him the steal of the draft.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 1:08 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmmmmm

I don’t know about that one. Unless he’s playing the PG he’s going to have to beat out Rodriguez, Fernandez, Roy and who knows what else. I don’t know if there is a guaranteed spot for him if he doesn’t rise quickly and show how much better he is.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 4:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Let's not forget

Petrie was the first-round pick in 1970 for the Blazers, was a central player through the 1975-6 season, played his entire NBA career with the Blazers and worked for both the coaching staff and the front office with the Blazers in the 1990s. I trust him not to do anything sleazy with regard to Miles.

by DonkeyShins on Oct 21, 2008 9:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

As a Blazers fan ...

I still have very fond memories of Geoff Petrie who helped build those really great early nineties teams for Portland, and he’s a pretty classy guy so I can’t see him going out of his way just to screw another team out of some cap-room.

On the other hand I have no problem with Darius getting signed, the guy obviously has worked hard to try and rehab his knee, and whether he’s motivated by love of the game or revenge on his former team he has a right to try and resurrect his career, and if a team signs him I can only assume they think he’s worthy of not only a roster spot, but of being one of the twelve active players for at least 20 games.

Good luck with the season, I have a feeling the Kings will be a pretty damn good team with all of that young talent in a few years.

by nikolokolus on Oct 21, 2008 9:16 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Be careful what you wish for, Sac fans.

If Miles joins the Kings, you’ll have to put-up with seeing his car around town:
.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 21, 2008 10:46 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Finally a fair argument in this thread.

(in my limited point of view)

by KingsFanfromCentralEurope on Oct 21, 2008 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Just look at Nate McMillans reaction

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/stupendous52/DMiles03_small.jpg
He’s the one on the Driver’s side

and the hood paint job is classy too.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m284/stupendous52/DMiles04_small.jpg

by NWfan on Oct 21, 2008 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

So if you sign Miles, does that make K mart available?

Signing Miles may pinch the Blazers a tiny bit, but are the Kings in a position to prosper from it. Miles subtracts from the Kings, and does nothing to mitigate a gap between the talent on the Blazers and the Kings. That means, if it does any harm to Portland, Sacramento is not the beneficiary of that harm. Other teams benefit. If I’m a Kings fan, from time to time I am, I hope another team signs Miles, so the Kings could possibly take advantage.

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by hobobob on Oct 21, 2008 11:48 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

This whole thread is totally retarded

Portland doesn’t give a rat’s ass what happens to Miles or the money, and why in the hell would this in anyway benefit the kings?

Napear: "Going in to the final timeout what did the coach tell you?"
Bibby: "I asked the coach if I should go and he said, I don't really know what he said."

by kangsfan on Oct 21, 2008 3:41 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Benefit the Kings?

1. More money going to the adult entertainment industry.
2. Adult entertainment industry expands.
3. Players like Zach Randolph want to come to Sacramento.
4. Adult entertainment industry expands.
5. I’m losing the plot here. I was sure there was some way I could spin this into a benefit for the Kings, but that one is beyond even me. Sorry, no benefit.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 1:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's like one of those prisoner's dilemma things....

But reversed…
If one NBA team does it, the individual team will suffer from bad pub but it’s good overall all 28 other teams, if no team does it, no team gets bad pub but it’s good the blazers…haha

by Dow on Oct 22, 2008 8:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Some team needs to fall on its sword

and bring Miles and Randolph onboard for the benefit of the rest of the teams in the league. I nominate the Lakers.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 22, 2008 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The L@kers already fell on their sword

They traded Shaq to keep Kobe. How self-destructive can you get?

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don't sign him!

Unfortunately when and if Miles signs, it won’t have any real negative impact on what the Blazers are currently doing. It could potentially affect their ability to sign another free agent, but even if Miles signs, they could still do that by including LaFrentz in the deal.

The real question is “Is Miles right for us?” I don’t think he’s a bad guy, even though he’s had some problems in the past. The real issue with him is his attitude. He has a pattern of acting like he’s the real thing (and he has the physical ability), but when push comes to shove, he doesn’t want to work – he doesn’t have a passion like players like Martin do. He also has been a detriment to his teams historically. I don’t want him on the Kings. Let’s sign some of the other free agents who could be available or make a trade, but don’t take Miles. This guy is not our answer!

by BlazerNation on Oct 22, 2008 10:53 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't want to sign Miles

That being said, Blazers fans are sure looking out for our best interests, as they have invested a lot of time and energy trying to ward us off signing a guy that allegedly means nothing to them.

Guys, the opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy. Admit it, you care about him signing with someone. Other than Greg Oden, it’s been the most talked about item at Blazers Edge this summer, bigger than Bayless, Rodriguez, Fernandez, etc.

If I’m a Blazers fan, I’m too busy sporting LaMarcus Aldridge wood to concern myself with the whereabouts of Darius Miles, but hey, that’s just me.

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by section214 on Oct 22, 2008 1:16 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs

I'm known to have some moments myself

But Section is the man with the plan, and that’s a lot harder than it looks. That’s why he is a genius fa shizzle.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rec'd

Any way you slice it, $9M is $9M. That said, the $28.5M coming off the books next summer (Raef & Franchise) sure makes it less notable.

I don’t see how it could be an issue to ignore entirely, but there’s definitely better things to talk about up in Portland.

I guess he’s their Kenny Thomas, only if there was a chance that Kenny Thomas wouldn’t be on the books for the next two years.

by smgmatt on Oct 22, 2008 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That could be said about Shareef too Smg

It’s just that Shareef’s knees really seem shot, and I think if they weren’t, he would have been traded to another team.

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by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You are assuming

that I actually have a life, and nothing better to do than talk about even peripheral Blazer stuff.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sure, I care

It may not matter, but it could. If we lose that cap space, we’ll still PROBABLY have all we need or want, but not for sure. So I care.

But I actually like the Kings, always have. Even when you had Artest, and that’s saying a lot. And I would much rather see you guys work to improve your team.

If Petrie actually becomes convinced that Darius would help you, and he comes in and does a job, I wouldn’t really mind that at all. Mild disappointment over the cap space, but like I said, probably doesn’t matter.

That wasn’t the premise of the OP, though. The idea was to do this to stick it to Portland. I would care about that very much, if that was the reason. Bad blood between franchises is not a nice thing.

When the Celtics signed Darius, their blog had a post on bad blood between teams. My comment there was that if Darius made the team and contributed through the year, it would be a non-issue. But if he was kept and played in ten games and then cut, it would be hatred and war.

I would hate to see that between the Kings and Blazers.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 22, 2008 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Now THIS is an interesting discussion to partake with someone else from another fanbase

I don’t want MIles here, for a varying group of reasons, among others I once had something to this effect deleted by Dave a year & half ago for saying this about MIles: The Blazers would be better off by tying MIles hair to a bumper and draggin him out of town. It was a joke, and a bad one at that, but hey what can I say, I’m a crude blow. (And don’t get caught up in the racism angle of it. James Byrd being dragged was utterly awful, racist, wrong and in every way. Tie somebodies hair to the bumper and it hurts. Badly, and very badly at that. It’s not deadly. Besides, that’s just stupid. Why would anybody ACTUALLY do that?)

But that being said, Miles is what he is, and he’s always underachieved everywhere he’s gone. He worked well with the 00-02 Clippers because they needed personality and he gives you some. He wrote his ticket out of Cleveland after being traded for Andre Miller 5 years ago. Then remarkeably landed in Portland (another ticked punched out of town) and amazingly, and I don’t know why honestly, that John Nash signed him to such a long expensive multi-year deal. Of all the things that befuddle me, and there are a lot, is how Miles ended up getting a contract for 6 years for a few games that showed promise (that game in Denver where he dropped what 47? is what comes to mind), and Nash ran after it. I’m not sure if Nash got fired for Randolph, Miles or Telfair, but if any of the 3 should have gotten him fired, and all 3 probably deserved to get him fired, and I was certainly in Telfair and Randolph’s corner as late as 2005, it was because he signed Miles to a long term contract with no causal reasoning.

If you fast forward to 2008, why would any team sign Miles unless they have a weakness there? First off MIles had a legitimate injury that a league doctor ruled career ending. Miles disagreed and tried to make a comeback with the Celtics. The Celtics ended it quickly, and that is that. I don’t think there is any team desperate to make Miles another offer, and the reason the Celtics did it is probably because somebody like Ainge thought Miles could help them with some length and energy if he was healthy. Clearly that didn’t work out.

Now onto the franchise angle of this.If a team signed Miles, and played 10 games, Im sure the league would investigate it. There is no reason to sign Miles unless he can legitmately play, and to play him 1 min for 10 games and then release him smacks of chicanery. The Blazers would rightfully object, hopefully quietly, and hopefully the league would rule, appropriately, that the whole signing was a sham to screw the Blazers and to force them to pay the luxury tax more than they should. That’s my whole feeling on this subject. Now I got other important shit to write.

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by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed on just about all points

One minor thing. There’s some rumors around Portland that the Miles signing was actually something Paul Allen pushed through. No idea if it is true. But even if that one wasn’t Nash’s fault, there was abundant good reason to fire Nash anyway.

Second minor thing. Miles doesn’t mean luxury tax for Portland, he just impacts our cap flexibility this coming summer.

I’m glad Dave deleted your post, though.

Thanks for the discussion.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 23, 2008 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah that's true too about the Allen/Miles angle

I’ve heard that as well, but I don’t like to speculate about that stuff.

Btw, Dave didn’t delete the post. He deleted the comment.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 23, 2008 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ever check-out Blazers Edge?

There isn’t a subject, however tangentially linked to the Blazers, that we do not discuss.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 22, 2008 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have and try to read it

But reading about the Blazers is low on my list of priorities, and when I can, I do enjoy it. I’m speaking for me alone though.

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by pookeyguru on Oct 22, 2008 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Blazers Edge

is one of my favorite stops, and I love watching a small market team on the rise. Makes me all tingly.

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by section214 on Oct 22, 2008 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Quick!

Think of a basketball player not named Darius Miles: who is under 30 years old, who has broken off a 47-point game in his career, who has more career starts than all of the Kings players at his position combined (despite the fact that he has missed two full seasons), who can be signed for one season at less than 800K, and about whom the GM of the reigning NBA Champions said this yesterday: “Without question, he can play in this league.”

Give up?

Blazers fans – if Petrie decides not to sign Miles it will be because of The Perfect Score, not because it will cost our divisional rival $9M in cap space that they claim to have no reason to care about anyway. Also, just FYI, you’re really not supposed to root for two teams in the same division tweener, MiledAnimal, and hobobob.

Petrie is going to be trying to improve his team, not mess with someone else’s plans. If he isn’t, he needs to be fired.

Thanks, jscot, we’ll take that into consideration. Sorry for dropping a “F@ck” bomb on KP on a Kings blog.

by furious.d on Oct 22, 2008 10:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

thanks furious...

signing d-miles would not only screw over portland (even only a little bit), but if he finally snaps out of it and reaches his potential, it would be the steal of the year… give the kid a chance… and screw a division rival at the same time.

Now you see that evil shall always triumph over good, because good is dumb!

by TrojanCBB on Oct 23, 2008 1:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fortunately

We’re in different divisions, so we can still root for the Kings. Hope that doesn’t distress you too much. :-)

I, for one, will cheer you guys on if you sign Darius and he contributes for you. That’s not at all the same thing as signing him to play him ten games of garbage time minutes.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 23, 2008 1:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

word

conference rival is not as bad. forgot about that screwy NW Div.

by furious.d on Oct 23, 2008 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not that I wouldn't LIKE us to be division rivals again.

With the Grizz and Sonics gone, we’re all alone and a long, one-or-two-time-zone flight to our division rivals. Stern should move Phoenix to the NW division and return Portland to the Pacific.

If the Kings were to pick-up Miles, better keep THIS on-hand for when his knee(s) blow-out. It will go nicely with his car.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 23, 2008 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

PORTLAND

Signing him would be nice at minimum.See him run w/ Bjacks,Cisco,Green&Thompson!Who I really want when cut by PORTLAND is S.Hill 7ft C from Ark.!

by hudson101 on Oct 23, 2008 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good call on Steven Hill.

We like him a lot, too. He’s the classic journeyman center, and he has enough hair to scare a sasquatch.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 23, 2008 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He's all yours.

Blazers release Hill and Jackson.

"Personally, I'd rather give an elephant a prostate exam on Chili Day." --Dave on rooting for the Lakers or Celtics

by MiledAnimal on Oct 23, 2008 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Let's do it. great idea.

by mattman on Oct 24, 2008 8:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

CAN`T

214 informed me SAR is our 15th roster spot until NOV.

by hudson101 on Oct 25, 2008 1:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Send Donte' to the Dev league until then

He needs it baby.

Cisco? Cisco? CISCO!!!! #*$!%! !

by lietothegirls on Oct 27, 2008 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Blazer Ambassador checking in...

These truths are self-evident:

1. Blazer fans were attracted to this post because of the “let’s stick it to Portland” aspect.
2. Because Portland is a sexy pick, obnoxious bandwagon fans are coming out of the woodwork, especially on our own site. It sucks.
3. I don’t care what Danny Ainge says, Darius can’t play right now or he would have beat out some of the stiffs the Celtics signed. After another year of rehab, he might look pretty good.
4. I’d wouldn’t mind seeing Sactown stick it to the Blazers by signing Miles, start getting good, and develop a rivalry. Rivalries are awesome.
5. We hate the Lakers.

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by Blazerholic on Oct 25, 2008 11:18 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs

from the din of insanity

comes a sage voice. well said. I especially agree that rivalries are fun.

Let’s start a friggin’ rivalry:

First off, Portland sucks… I’ve been, I know, you can come hit me for it but first you got to cross six bridges (and you know what I mean)
I like Oden but he’s too big and athletic for the NBA,
Brandon Roy’s got half a step on Kevin but half the shot,
Portland will never be able to afford Rudy Fernandez so sucks for you,
Martel Webster is a wannabe Travis Outlaw who is a wannabe John Salmons,
Francisco Garcia will take your cookies and drink your milk but-he-ain’t-Santa-so-b*tch-don’t-expect-presents,
Quincy Douby would be the FailSayers MVP and we can’t find a roster sport for the guy,
Shelden Williams can out-bench Lamarcus and I’m not talking about weights though that too,
Mikki Moore screams louder than Fartland’s entire fanbase,
Brad Miller can outsmoke anyone on your roster then come in and put up a double double animal style – Joel Pryzbilla included, we’ll even give Darius an honorary spot,
Greene’s got more Es and és than your entire roster, so put some Ds on that on that.
Spencer Hawes.

Donte? Donte'! Donté?!?!
'spect da 'xtra E'

by iashwash on Oct 26, 2008 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs

LOL--I'm definitely Rec'd this

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by pookeyguru on Oct 26, 2008 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This creates a dilemma

Is it ok for a Blazers fan to rec a post on a Sacramento blog? Because I really wanted to, but, you know, I’m like a guest here, and it isn’t up to me to tell you who is representing well.

But anyway, I almost did. All the way through.

And then he came to his last two words, and bailed me out of my dilemma. Sorry, I can’t rec a post that uses those two words in any but a derogatory manner.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 27, 2008 5:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

What's the Spencer hate for?

Cuz he’s from Seattle and grew up a Sonics fan or something? Pssh on you.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 28, 2008 12:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe because he's not very good?

I don’t know, just don’t like the guy.

We have several guys from Seattle. It’s not that. I mean, it’s not like he’s a L@ker fan. That would be substantive grounds for hate.

I thought you wanted a rivalry. How can it be a rivalry if I don’t have non-substantive reasons for hating at least one of your guys?

What does Pssh mean, in a family friendly kind of way? I’m a furriner, after all, sort of. I thought most words had like vowels or something in them.

Rivalry stuff:
I’m disappointed in this site, by the way. If someone on the Bedge had written something like that rivalry post, he’d have got at least 15 recs. But then, we do expect to do things better than you guys. After all, we’re a Blazers site, while you guys are just, well….

Am I doing better at this rivalry thing? I’ll keep working on it.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 28, 2008 2:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not really

But I think rivalries are mostly bullshit JS. You don’t like a team or a player because he irritates you for some personality quirk you don’t care for. So, in a sense, I suppose you are correct.

It’s just hard for me to hate the Blazers. While some of the irritance here to some Blazer fans on this site comes from the “Prtich-slapped” comments, I let it go many months ago (when it happened) because it was stupid then as is now. I’d still rather have JT than Bayless, and if I’m wrong so be it. Bayless never filled a need, and JT may, and can down the line.

I like Portland, I like Pritchard with some of the things he’s done, and I think Portland is lucky to have a guy like Paul Allen willing to own their team. Portland could do a lot worse. Like, say, Clay Bennett. (I wouldn’t doubt that Allen generally misses the Sonics in Seattle. It’s nice to drive 8 miles to Key Arena rather than go 150 miles to see a live NBA game.) That all having been said, the reason so many in Sac don’t like the Lakers is because so many in SoCal think it’s heaven on earth, and that’s why the Lakers are so unreal. Portlanders (And Blazers fans who’ve never had the opportunity to step inside the Rose Quarters) don’t have that same level of snobbery in any real way, with the notable exception is that Porltand is the biggest city the NorthWest has, outside of Seattle, and it is a gathering place similar to LA.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 28, 2008 3:16 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, I like Sacramento, too

Even though I live in Scotland, I’ve been to Sacramento several times. My heart really isn’t in this rivalry thing, but your buddy there seemed to want it, so I did my best. Pretty pathetic.

And some of us campaigned against the Pritch-slapped thing.

But I do hate the L@kers. My fingers can’t even type those letters.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 28, 2008 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm also the wrong person to have this discussion with too

I don’t love the Lakers by any stretch, but I don’t hate them the way many people do, or like JC does for that matter living in Socal, and it probably insulates me a bit from understanding where you are coming from.

(It also didn’t help that at the height of it’s “rivalry”, which I contend isn’t because the KIngs didn’t win a ring, that I lived in Hawaii when it was at it’s hottest, particularly in 02, and that insulated me from much of the nonsense that happened in Sacto back in those years.)

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 28, 2008 3:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

jscot

I don’t think we’ve ever had 15 recs for any post here. I think it could be because we’re smart enough to know that after 5 recs any additional recs do nothing. So if a post has 5 recs the only reason to rec it is to “jump on the bandwagon” also known as “being a Blazer fan.”

And as for Spencer he had a better year last season than your rookie center.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 28, 2008 5:03 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

Your anger befuddles me while cracking me up at the same time

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 28, 2008 5:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

No anger at all

completely entirely rivalry creatingly trash talkingly in fun.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 28, 2008 5:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

LOL

Yeah at least Jscot will agree with that. I hate the “talk” of rivalries, I just prefer unreasonable insanity laced hate, rather than trash talking. I hate the Yankees, I have no real reason to, I just can’t stand them. I hate the Red Sox mostly because of their fans, and the Yankees too.

I just, can’t, ever do that with Portland.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 28, 2008 5:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rec

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 28, 2008 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

By the way

Reasons to rec a post beyond 5:
1. You really appreciate the effort that was put into it (research, analysis, whatever).
2. You really appreciate the way it was presented. Humor, whatever.

It’s just a way of saying thank you and recognizing excellence or effort.

SB Nation does give a way of seeing the all-time most recommended fan posts on a site. I forget how you do it, somebody on the Bedge showed us a while back.

I hold the top of that list at Blazers Edge (or at least I still did when he showed us). It made my insufferable ego even more insufferable.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 28, 2008 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ah well that's cool

SB Nation does give a way of seeing the all-time most recommended fan posts on a site. I forget how you do it, somebody on the Bedge showed us a while back.

learn something every day. Thanks for the info.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Oct 28, 2008 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Something new

for coolcat to shoot for.

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Oct 28, 2008 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Thanks for the conversation guys

I’m going away now. Theories as to the reason:
1. Work is taking over my life for the next week or so, so my hands are tied.
2. All Blazer fans are going into hiding, and don’t want to show their faces after last night.

In my case, it’s #1. My face is so ugly I didn’t want to show it before last night, either, so #2 is obviously invalid.

Good luck on your season. I suspect you’ll need it even more than we do (and we need plenty), but I hope you’ll have it, anyway.

The most amazing thing about my amazing ego is I have amazingly little about which to be egotistical.
The pick and roll this year will emphasize "roll" followed by "dunk", followed by the wailings and lamentations of your women.

by jscot on Oct 29, 2008 12:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ain't that the truth

The Kings are going to need way more luck than the Blazers will. I agree that they may drop off some, but then again, who knows? Maybe they won’t.

Either way, good luck as well.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Oct 29, 2008 3:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gotta get the Green glow for that

Awesome Iash

Napear: "Going in to the final timeout what did the coach tell you?"
Bibby: "I asked the coach if I should go and he said, I don't really know what he said."

by kangsfan on Oct 27, 2008 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs