Bingo...Portland is trippin. IDK WTF they were thinking with that email. Since its virtually impossible to argue a yes or no answer on how to run a team and personnel decisions to make POR has no leg to stand on. Im sorry but there will be no email found of MEM management that says "I want to screw over POR by signing Miles"....isnt gonna happen. It is also highly cynical to think that their management would sign Miles because they were pissed about some trade with you guys that never happened...I think they couldnt care less about the situation of the Blazers. With that in mind the "with the intent of hurting POR" part of the email moot. There is no way to prove it so any lawsuit would be frivolous. So it boils down to "If you sign Miles we will sue"
Umm... if they know they cannot prove that Memphis had another intention in mind when signing Miles, I HIGHLY doubt they will sue. And they probably can't find the intent, so they will probably not sue. I think its pretty much that simple. In no way is it "If you sign Miles we will sue". And I highly doubt Miles has a case against PDX because he got a job later that day, and the Blazers weren't threatening about signing him w/ good intentions.
While I agree that wont happen, that was their threat when you analyze their position and "evidence" they may have
You can't just take probably the most important words of that whole email out, though. And they said we will take actions, which could include... litigation. So it certainly isn't how you are making it out. Seriously, read the email (in a non-mean way)... its honestly different than a lot of people are portraying it to be. PS - I'm with you that it was a stupid, stupid move... I just don't think what they said was wrong, really.
Julius... I don't have a link because it happen quite ahile ago when Pritchard said something in public about Miles' injury. The agent then had a fit because he thought it interferred with his chances to come back.
Yep, you are correct. Eventually they found out they could not because it wasn't against any rule/law.
So if it was wrong, or illegal, something would be online somewhere. Otherwise, it's just conjecture by a fan.
Why do teams EVER sign players to 10 day contracts, by that logic. Further, the Grizzlies were able to make money by dealing with the Heat because they had cleared up a roster spot by waiving Miles. Ed O.
That's not true. Plain language (what is actually said) is not always controlling, but in many cases it is. It depends on the kind of law that is being dealt with in terms of what other aspects are considered, but "interpretation" is not one that I am aware of (except perhaps in contract law, where a meeting of the minds is critical). With that being said: it's certainly possible that the Blazers' email had a chilling effect on Miles's employment opportunities. I think that Darius would have trouble showing damages, though. Ed O.
No, it was Mile's agent pounding his chest and acting tough. I remember the interview, and it sparked a lot of discussion back on BBF. Just because the law suit never got filed doesn't mean the poster is making the story up. The interview happened.
I always considered Miles a waste of time - as a player. I never had a darn thing against him as a human being. This situation, however, is starting to strain my better nature. The medical retirement didn't cost Miles a dime. The Blazers still paid him his inflated salary. The only reason for him to risk serious, permanent disablity is some kind of misguided malice against the team. Lord help me, but at this point I hope the jerk-off hurts himself so badly he winds up having the leg amputated! And please, don't tell me this fake comeback is about his "love of the game." Miles never gave 2 hoots about basketball. If he had any love for the game, he would have made some effort to develop his potential.
Good advice. Of course, if everybody here followed it, there'd only be about three posts a day on this board.
Miles has to show he has damage to actually be awarded anything in a lawsuit. He's still making $9 million a year. He would have to prove someone would sign him to a contract worth more than that to have an actual damages. Very unlikely considering he is signing for vet minimum and that just comes out of what insurance has to pay him on his Blazer's K.
Darius signed a contract the day after the email was sent. LMAO Try to win the case that he can't play basketball with an NBA team after this email.
Yeah, he may have received better offers from other teams had he not signed the worst contract available to him literally within hours of the email being sent.
all that email the blazers sent did was give a lot of people a good giggle. miles has about as much chance of success in a lawsuit against the blazers as the blazers do of going through with their kindergarten-level email threat.
Of course the Blazers aren't going to say we are going to sue anyone who signs Miles. But that email was so poorly written it wreaked of implied threat so much that any unbias reading will conclude that the email comes across as a threat. I don't think it is all a media thing as the way the email was written.
Reading the rest of your mindless rant leads me to believe you're one of these people you so venomously condemn. Hate that part of yourself much?
