Yet another turn in the Darius Miles saga comes with a bullying e-mail sent out by the Blazers to other teams. Per ESPN, the e-mail reads as follows:
"Team Presidents and General Managers,"The Portland Trail Blazers are aware that certain teams may be contemplating signing Darius Miles to a contract for the purpose of adversely impacting the Portland Trail Blazers Salary Cap and tax positions. Such conduct from a team would violate its fiduciary duty as an NBA joint venturer. In addition, persons or entities involved in such conduct may be individually liable to the Portland Trail Blazers for tortuously interfering with the Portland Trail Blazers' contract rights and perspective economic opportunities.
"Please be aware that if a team engages in such conduct, the Portland Trail Blazers will take all necessary steps to safeguard its rights, including, without limitation, litigation."
Okay: Here’s the question everybody around the NBA should be asking: If this contract issue with the Blazers did not exist, would it be more or less likely for a team to sign Darius Miles today?
If the answer is more — and I think it is — then Portland’s potential salary cap hit is a deterrent to Miles getting a chance to play, not the primary reason he would.
As one of the few NBA media people who has seen Miles play in person in a regulation NBA game since he left Blazers, let me say that he looks like he’s capable of contributing.
Miles played nine minutes in his two appearances with the Grizzlies last week. In his seven-minute stretch against the Timberwolves, he missed his only two shots — one at the rim, one a 20-foot jumper — but he grabbed two rebounds (one an offensive board that led to a Hakim Warrick layup) and, more impressively, blocked two shots (one a thunderous rejection of a Randy Foye lay-up, the other a muffling of a 10-foot Al Jefferson turnaround.) In a game that the Grizzlies lost, they held their ground with Miles on the floor. I was surprised. So were the other press people I was sitting with. I was also surprised when Miles threw down a windmill dunk in shootaround.
Maybe Miles didn’t put the proper effort into his rehab for Portland. Maybe the team doctor(s) who pronounced Miles’ injuries “career-ending” were coming up with the conclusion the Blazers wanted. I don’t know. Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace did tell me — after the team decline to guarantee his contract for the season — that trainers who had been working with Miles told him that Miles would look better in games than in practice drills. And that was the case.
Based on what I saw, Miles is better than a lot of players on NBA rosters right now. He’s certainly better than Grizzlies reserve center Hamed Haddadi. I’d imagine he’s probably better that Mark Madsen and Calvin Booth, who sat on the bench for the Timberwolves that night. If he can help a team, even in a small way, then why shouldn’t one of the 29 other NBA teams take a chance? Because of a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Portland. Or because of intimidation from Portland.
Either way, if Darius Miles doesn’t get a chance to play again this season, it will be because of artificial constraints. Sounds like a lawsuit to me. The increasingly entitled Blazers aren’t the only entity in this ordeal that could pursue litigation.

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