Sometimes dreams do come true, and sometimes they don’t.
Other times they come halfway true, which is why you shoot for the moon.
Somewhere among those scenarios is Portland Trailblazer forward Darius Miles finding out he’s had the dreaded microfracture knee surgery.
If the wording of that seems a little strange, it’s not because of our rapidly diminishing typing skills. Read the following from the Blazer press release.
During Darius Miles’ previously scheduled arthroscopic procedure today, doctors uncovered the need for microfracture surgery.
If you’re following along, you realize that he went under expecting a simple scope, and woke up out for the year and forever damaged.
In Miles’s case, this is probably retirement, yes?
Microfracture recovery requires extensive therapy and rehab to become even a fraction of the player you once were, and Darius Miles, by our observation, has not bothered to attempt to improve AT ALL since he was drafted six years ago.
For this lack of effort he’ll now sit back, do nothing (we’re quite sure of this), claim the knee “just isn’t coming back”, and make well over $50,000,000 in his career.
And that brings us back to the dreaming thing – can you imagine the look on Darius’s face when he realized his career can be totally over and he can get his money if he plays this the right way? This is like everything he’s ever hoped for…and more.
He totally can get one of those medical marijuana deals now. (Not that we think he smokes pot – that’d be like a total shocker.)
NOTE: In what world is Zach Randolph a sympathetic and engaging figure? (New/old sexual assault lawsuit aside.)
NOTE 2: After we finished this, we came up with a list of the top ten guys who would unnecessarily retire rather than complete microfracture rehab. Can you guess them? Here’s a start – Darius Miles, Michael Olowakandi…
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Sub par, waste of time and bandwith. Unless anyone still gives a shit about the Blazers. All 10 of you.
You know the Knicks were apparently thisclose to Q-Rich for Darius Miles like two months ago. If this happened and Q played like he’s playing now, I think New York might have been destroyed in riots.
tony go back to france… screw the spurs
plenty of people care about the blazers, ya little 14-year-old nasty. but none of us care about darius miles!
1) I like that Tony Parker takes the time to visit the site, read the post, log in, type something, hit post (and probably marvel at his own comment) all to say what a waste of time this is
2) If Eddy Curry could retire the the world of competitive eating, he would be on that list
3) Eric Dampier
Oooh good one – I didn’t even think of him.
4) Chris Webber – he needs some kind of excuse, the first ever double fracturer
Cav, thanks for accepting my invitation to be my friend on the myspace dot com…
When is Boney going to make an appearance among your top friends?
You did – it was for like 30 seconds at about 4:30 this morning. Did you miss it?
I like the first message… “Are you from the YaySports.com message board?”
and then the body of the message was classic:
“BONEY?”
Thanks for the love…my boys are 3-4. I’m headed up to the mistake by the lake next week to see Rudy Gay and the Gristle take on the Traveling LeBrons before I head up to MoTown and see Detroit vs. Atlanta.
Funny that both of those guys you mentioned were drafted by Elgin Baylor, pre-Dunleavy…That guy sure knew how to draft em…
Thank you Mrs. Fios, but I feel “The Cavalier” needs an opposing opinion every now and then other than the usual “I agree with everything you say” poster that comes in here every day (like you). I do tend to “marvel at my own comments” but only cause everything I say is so enlightening, not to mention a breath of fresh air in this here “blog”. Now, have a good day with the Mr. and please refrain from rebutting (sp?) this.
I’m surprised a post about me accepting you as a friend on myspace hasn’t been completed yet…
TP, do you like me?
No Mr./Mrs. Sockk. I don’t even who you are.
Why not?
i like the blazers, i live in portland though. d-miles, what a waste of talent. im guessing the blazers could be looking to buyout his contract the same way they did with kemp a while back.
TP: Playing the old (fatal and always-effective) suggest-that-someone-is-a-woman -in-a-loving-relationship card, eh? I may never recover, you French are so crafty. Touche
I like it when I have people bashing me. Personally, I think it’d be fun if every comment was negative.
D Miles is a good player in his own mind…while hes sleeping…and drunk…but the Blazers are up and coming and if U dont recognize that U are an idiot…B Roy is the missing link we needed and Z Bo hitting buckets not just bitches we got a strong core…
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