oh LOL so this should be interesting now.

So, he's not good enough to keep on a contract that was going to become guaranteed so they waive him so they can sign him to (likely consecutive) 10 day contract(s)? Then what, waive him after they screwed Portland?

LOL.

Like I said if he's healthy and contributes even just 10-15 minutes per game for the rest of the year? Portland has no case.
If otherwise I think they have a valid concern and Stern should at least step in and waive the cap hit. There'd still be the issue of insurance coming back at Portland demanding back their money but that's a separate issue.

Posted by earthmansurfer:

Does this mean Portland is more apt to want Lee now? I wonder if that explains the timing of the "Knicks likely to sign Lee."

With Miles they will be at 46 million next year according to: http://hoopshype.com/salaries/portland.htm

Nice article on the situation and Miles play: http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-38-27/Darius-Miles--Cap-Space--E-mails--Oh-My-.html

snippet:

I just watched video of all of his regular season minutes. From the January 6 Grizzles vs. Timberwolves game, we can learn that anyone who tells you he's permanently broken is blatantly wrong.

* Ask Randy Foye. He had a nice path to the hoop on the secondary break, and Miles swooped across the lane, and skied to block it.
* Ask Kevin Love. Miles was isolated on the right wing against the Minnesota rookie. Miles beat him to the rim off the dribble. Miles didn't get the bucket. He seemed to be lacking explosion -- but in that he joins many post-surgical NBA players.
* Ask Al Jefferson. Jefferson is one of the deadliest post scorers in the game. Miles, beefier now, guarded him solo in the post, and came up with the block. But for a foot on the baseline, he would have come up with the loose ball and started the break, too.
* Ask Mike Conley, who noticed too late, at one point, that Miles had beaten everybody down the floor and just needed the ball to complete an easy layup.

That should semi put to rest if Miles can still play or not.

EMS

it's at $46M if they don't keep Webster, Ike Digou, Channing Frye.