Most of the NBA believed Darius Miles still was eight regular-season games away from devastating the Blazers? salary cap, but Yahoo! Sports learned on Wednesday that Miles is just two games away.
Teams had been under the impression that the league?s collective bargaining agreement demanded that Miles play 10 regular-season or postseason games for the $18 million, which is split evenly between this and next season to return to the Blazers? payroll.
All along, the Blazers knew exactly that the preseason games counted, but a league official said Wednesday night, ?He wanted to keep it quiet.?
Apparently, no team had called the league for clarification on the rule that states the season is constituted by the ?first day of training camp and ending immediately after the last game of the NBA Finals.?