Posted by sebstar:

Posted by Knicksfansince94:

Mr. Kevin is a great General manager. He looks good and does good deals.

I hope you're female. Thats crazy suspect. Probably explains your emotional post.

And what has he personally done, since he was named general manager in '07, that warrants him being called "great"? I just cast the same objective eye on others that I do for our Knicks.

I dont feel the need to exalt people just because they work for other organizations and they are beneficiaries of the hype that surrounds current flavors of the month. Seen it far too many times. I'm saying he needs to prove himself. Thats all.

exactly. if he were Gm of the knicks he would get trashed for the handling of miles and trashed for not taking durant over oden.. A lot NY fans are flavor of the month fans, as long as they are not in knicks uniforms, and they have that grass is always greener syndrome... typical self hate Ny fans...

Posted by tkf:

Posted by sebstar:

Posted by Knicksfansince94:

Mr. Kevin is a great General manager. He looks good and does good deals.

I hope you're female. Thats crazy suspect. Probably explains your emotional post.

And what has he personally done, since he was named general manager in '07, that warrants him being called "great"? I just cast the same objective eye on others that I do for our Knicks.

I dont feel the need to exalt people just because they work for other organizations and they are beneficiaries of the hype that surrounds current flavors of the month. Seen it far too many times. I'm saying he needs to prove himself. Thats all.

exactly. if he were Gm of the knicks he would get trashed for the handling of miles and trashed for not taking durant over oden.. A lot NY fans are flavor of the month fans, as long as they are not in knicks uniforms, and they have that grass is always greener syndrome... typical self hate Ny fans...

He would by some but there are many New York fans who feel Durant is overrated and isn't a difference maker in the win column for OKC. New York fans are getting on him for the handling of the Miles situation.

I don't see a point here.

Obviously you're going to judge him ultimately on what he's done to rebuild the team. His good decisions far outweigh his bad ones, but if he isn't careful they could cancel each other out or slant in the wrong direction.

[Edited by - GallOfFame on 01-13-2009 2:56 PM]

Posted by djsunyc:

dmiles so far tonight: 11 mins, 11 points

FVCK portland...

Posted by Cosmic:

Well I'll be damned (and wrong) he can play???

Darius Miles played just under 14 minutes in Tuesday night's Memphis loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and put up some good numbers.

If Miles plays in just one more game this season his salary for 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 will go back on to the Portland Trail Blazers cap, which will not only put them above the tax for this season, but could cost them a shot at a maximum salary free agent as well.

Miles scored 13 points on 4-6 shooting and went 5-7 from the line in his strongest performance of his comeback yet.

Portland won't just have this guy back on their cap they're getting a call from insurance telling them they now owe the full 18M salary as well!

This would indirectly help the Knicks because Portland covets David Lee and they'd have less space with which to make an offer. To make things even more interesting, what other team reportedly covets DLee? The Memphis Grizzlies.

When they received the “career-ending” exemption for Miles, the Blazers were able to remove the $27 million he was owed for this year (and the next two) off of the salary cap (they still had to pay whatever insurance did not cover, but it was off of the cap). If Miles plays two more games, that money comes back on to their cap, and instead of having $16 million in cap space this offseason, they will only have $7 million.

Posted by Cosmic:

Well I'll be damned (and wrong) he can play???

Darius Miles played just under 14 minutes in Tuesday night's Memphis loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and put up some good numbers.

If Miles plays in just one more game this season his salary for 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 will go back on to the Portland Trail Blazers cap, which will not only put them above the tax for this season, but could cost them a shot at a maximum salary free agent as well.

Miles scored 13 points on 4-6 shooting and went 5-7 from the line in his strongest performance of his comeback yet.

Portland won't just have this guy back on their cap they're getting a call from insurance telling them they now owe the full 18M salary as well!

LOL. Portland is going to get screwed. They should have traded Miles when they had the chance but they wanted to hold onto him because they thought he would retire like Jonathan Bender.

Posted by Andrew:

Darius Miles		9,000,000
Joel Przybilla		6,857,725
Greg Oden		5,361,240
LaMarcus Aldridge	5,844,826
Steve Blake		4,930,000
Travis Outlaw		4,000,000
Martell Webster		3,771,133*
Brandon Roy		3,910,816
Jerryd Bayless		2,143,080
Rudy Fernandez		1,165,320
Sergio Rodriguez	1,892,035
Nicolas Batum		1,118,760
Total			49,994,935

*using Martell Websters 08-09 salary. He recently signed and extension and the numbers are not posted.

As you can see, even without the QOs the Blazers need to drop more salary to be in the FA game.