I Can't Believe It! I Actually (In Fact, Wholeheartedly,) Agree With Canzano

Canzano = Devil's Advocate

Warning teams not to play miles unless your serious about him, WTF is wrong with that? I hate over-sensitive DRAMA.

 

The mistake Canzano and some of you are making is that he thinks people actually CARE about this. This is not a player committing a felony or embarrassing the city of Portland. This is a business decision and who really cares about a threat of a lawsuit.

I listed to the beginning of his show yesterday for about three minutes...it was ridiculous...but he has to create some job security somehow. Once again he tries to make something of nothing...and this IS nothing.

I am thankful that the Blazers are fighting for their own best interests? Screw the rest of the league.

 

I like Canzano, but one thing I have learned about him over the years is that, while he knows his sports, whenever he talks about business, he is in over his head.

The fact is, the NBA is a Joint Venture. Joint venturers have a fiduciary duty to one another - it is the highest duty imposed by law. The Blazers would be severely remiss if they did not send a cease and desist letter to a joint venturer who is, it appears, on the verge of breaching their duty TO the Blazers and committing a tort.

That's what you have lawyers for - to protect your interests. Too bad the other teams didn't like the letter - they're not supposed to.

 

They don't...but THEY said it, not Canzano. It's THEIR threatening e-mail, not Canzano's. I don't think you can blame him for THAT.

 

OK, so Memphis signed Darius. In the final analysis, was the e-mail effective in helping the Blazers' organization "fight for their best interests"?

I thought not.

Conversely, was it effective in getting most of the league, and others, agitated or riled up?

Absolutely.

 

I enjoyed this post from BostonFan in the E-Mail thread:

 

"A fiduciary duty is a kind of unwritten rule"

This poster has no idea what he is talking about. If you are a trustee of a trust, you owe a fiduciary duty to the beneficiaries. If you are the board of a corporation, you owe a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. A lawyer owes a fiducairy duty to his client. Partners owe it to each other. This is common throughout law - by statute. Oregon, for example, has a two year statute of limitation to bring a suit for breach of fiducialry duty (O.R.S. § 12.110(1))

Enron directors breached their fiduciary duty - that is what the whole thing was about.

The poster even took his arguement, without attribution, from Wikipedia. I just saw that.

What a crock.

And btw, the fiduciary duty argument is not mine, it is what Larry Miller said in his email.

 

John Canzano is a hack. Sorry. He's the guy who writes about cancer patients and people who are down on their luck to make us all feel bad about being sports fans. He's the guy who drug Zach Randolph through the mud for having his check to Portland Parks and Recreation bounce (they still got their money John). He will ALWAYS choose the controversial side, simply because he wants to draw attention to himself. Canzano is the guy who took journalism class too seriously, which makes me wonder why the hell he got into sports journalism. He belongs on CNN or NBC, or the New York Times.

 

haha! Nice

 

Hell it's not even a blog, it's the flea market of sport's "journalism" (I use the term loosely). Just imagine a bathroom stall used by high school journalism students

 

Ahaha, a good comparison.

 

They can call it a power play but this has to be one of the most embarrassing events that has ever happened to this franchise. This also made the management look like pure assholes. Very embarrassing.

 

I don't know if this is more embarrassing than any of those events, but it is definitely more newsworthy. Never before in the history of sports has one team threatened to sue another team (at least from the same league), not to my knowledge anyway. That's more newsworthy nationally than Damon with pot or Woods' dog fighting.

 

Qyntel's dog fighting was easily bigger. Considering it also had the subplot of Zach and he being accused of threatening the witnesses inside a movie theatre.

 

Far more.

The Blazers tried to blackball Darius out of a career, despite the fact he is willing and able to play. They are now attempting to strongarm other teams into a conspiracy. It's pathetic, and could lead to jail sentences for Allen and Miller if they don't change their tack.

 

Yep, even paid off those league and/or players' association-appointed doctors, as well.

 

The Blazers are a private business. They handled this the same way someone like Microsoft of Nike would have. People need to get over it and stop trying to hold the team to some mythical "higher standard".