Holy Khryapa bat-man! Blazer (bad) news!!

Chris Hafner wrote:
> "Terraholm" <terraholm_SpamGoAway RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:10gtf2vhu51sg52@corp.supernews.com...

>What do you think,
> Laurel - is Miles likely to take the tender, get an offer from
> another team, or just take his lumps and re-up with the Blazers?

yes. =()


>> I did not hear much except 'not NBA ready". Nash was talking 3 or 4
>> years... I got the impression they were more 'impressed' with
>> Sinanovic from last year's draft, who still sounds like the Russian
>> Shawn Bradley from the reports...
>
> I remember that guy ... he was the sleeper whose agent was pissed
> that he was selected, right?
>

Yes. The plan was to slip though undrafted for a big payday down the line as
a F when he was a euroleague star. Cheeks says he still needs a coulp of
years.

--
Laurel T
I don't hate anyone, at least not for
more than 48 minutes, barring overtime."
Charles Barkley

In article <10grns04a51vef6 RemoveThis @corp.supernews.com>, "Terraholm"
<terraholm_SpamGoAway RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote:

> Granville Waiters' Ghost wrote:

> > BTW, Laurel, didn't I see you write once that you volunteered
> > for Wayne Morse?
>
> Yes, in some other life seems like now....
>
> >I heard a funny anecdote about him the other
> > day.
>
> Tell it..=)


Okay, well you know it's the anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin
resolution. Apparently, before the '68 elections, a group of
anti-war lawyers were going to try to bring a lawsuit arguing
that Congress had essentially passed an anti-constitutional
measure in ceding the power to make war to the president.

Morse backed up the group when they came to him, but said they
should go get Fulbright's support, since he wasn't totally in
Johnson's doghouse at that point. According to me person telling
me this story, Fulbright refused outright, explaining that he
was getting a lot of coverage as the anti-war senator and didn't
want to lose it.

When the guy telling me this story (one of the anti-war lawyers)
went back to meet with Morse, he expected him, per his reputation,
to explode with indignation. Nothing of the sort. Apparently he
flushed and started tapping his foot. At this point, he knew he
was going to lose re-election and just wanted to do what he could
while he was there. The lawyer guy was already used to the
cynicism of politics and thought this was amazing.



> On the other hand there is the risk of playing a year for a guaranteed 5 mil
> with the chance of a career ending injury or not getting any more the next
> summer anyway with the lockout looming, or be guaranteed 20 million for 4
> years. Miles is only 22.


You'd think so, but when was the last time a guy signed a long
term deal when he could have gotten quite a bit more money?
(Don't say Carlos Boozer :-))