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**CKR13** · 07-05-2010, 01:17 AM

Darius Miles

Darius Miles is set to play for the Charlotte Bobcats in the Summer League.

There are miles and miles on Darius Miles, and the Charlotte Bobcats are still determining what his knees have left.

Miles is easily the most accomplished player trying out for the Bobcats this summer. The third pick in the 2000 draft, he has a serious resume as a 6-9 NBA forward.

Resume isn’t the issue. It’s his health. He’s attempting to come back from a knee injury so severe the league once defined it career-ending. The Bobcats have practiced twice a day here, preparing for five games at Orlando’s summer league. Miles is limited to one practice by his doctors, and was told to take every third day off.

Much of the time he’s watching, both knees wrapped in ice bags. Miles won’t play in summer-league games that start Monday.

When he does participate, you can see he’s still effective at any of three front-court positions. He filled in at center Friday, matched against 7-footer Alexis Ajinca in a scrimmage.

He’s lost some explosion, but his savvy was apparent.

"If you’ve got experience in the NBA, even if you haven’t been playing, you absorb things by watching. Darius is just a smarter player" than most here, said Dave Hanners, the assistant running the Bobcats’ summer team.

"He’s still got unbelievable feel for the game. He’s still got a lot of his quickness. He doesn’t quite have the leaping ability he did at one time. It’s a work-in-progress."

Reigniting Miles’ career would be a classic Larry Brown move. The Bobcats coach (who missed these practices due to a previously-scheduled family vacation) loves to fill out his bench with veterans. Theo Ratliff and Larry Hughes were there for the stretch run of the Bobcats’ first playoff season.

With a top-heavy payroll already, the Bobcats will need to fill out their roster with several minimum-salary players. Miles’ versatility and experience would be valuable if he can still get through a season, something he hasn’t done since 2006.

Miles said his practice limitations here are a precaution, insisting the worst of his knee problems are well behind him.

"I’ve got my quickness back. I can stop-and-go when I want to," he described. "When you have knee surgery, sometimes the knee will be stiff and you can’t run and stop in certain ways. You can’t spin, you can’t play defense.

"Now, since I’m healthy, I have no limits."

No limits in what he does, but still limits in how often he does it. That’s made it tough to evaluate what he has left.

"You’ve got to have a player who can practice every day and play every day," Hanners said. "Right now, that’s a problem to me. I don’t know at what point the doctors will release him to practice all the time."

Not now, but hopefully in the fall, if the Bobcats bring Miles to training camp.

"Hopefully by October, I’ll be in great basketball shape," Miles said, "and give them something that they need."

**batista55** · 07-05-2010, 02:30 AM

one chinese player～sun yue～and chinese americen jeremy lin～～～

**kaiziken_pinas** · 07-05-2010, 07:45 PM

Hadadi won't play for Iran in the jones Cup because of this.

**CKR13** · 07-06-2010, 03:35 AM

Results

CHA 85 UTA 83

IND 86 ORL 77
*Lance Stephenson 21 pts.

OKC 87 BOS 82

*The OKC Thunder have paraded the regular rotation consisting of Maynor, Ibaka, Mullens and Harden. The Boston Celtics roster meanwhile lead for most of the game to a game high 22 point lead, but the Thunder managed to claw back and took the lead with over three minutes to play. Luke Harangody lead the Celtics with 23 points on going for 4/6 on the three point area. Parakhouski grabbed a game high 10 rebounds while Semih Erden played limited minutes.

*Ryan Thompson, brother of Sacramento Kings' forward Jason Thompson was also on the roster.

NJN 74 PHI 84
* Terence Williams finished with 23 points. Third overall pick Derick favors hauled down a game high 9 rebounds while second overall pick Evan Turner had 14 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists.

**WhiteWest121** · 07-06-2010, 08:54 PM

Originally posted by batista55 View Post

one chinese player～sun yue～and chinese americen jeremy lin～～～

Look, don't get your hopes up Batista55, Sun Yue and Jeremy Lin only might make it into the NBA, and only if they are athletic enough. Height alone, even though Sun Yue is 6'9" does not make him a good NBA player. We all know that. Just because they are playingt in Las Vegas Summer League does NOT mean they are a guaranteed LOCK to make it into the NBA.

Stop being so arrogant and assuming anything. You don't know what will happen next, and neither does anyone else.

**CKR13** · 07-06-2010, 10:21 PM

Results

UTA 78 ORL 73
*Gordon Hayward 14 pts for the Jazz and Koufus hauled down 11 boards for the Jazz.

CHA 86 OKC 85
* Jeremy Pargo made the go ahead basket that won the game.

**CKR13** · 07-07-2010, 12:13 AM

PHI 86 BOS 69
*Luke Harangody with 14 pts and 12 rebs.

IND 69 NJN 80
*Terence Williams 24 points and 7 assists.

**CKR13** · 07-08-2010, 02:34 AM

CHA 71 BOS 92

OKC 89 PHI 81

NJN 94 ORL 91

*Damion James and Terence Williams combining for 50 pts where James had 30 and Williams had 20. Jordan Crawford lead the Magic with 29 pts on a losing effort.

IND 83 UTA 74

*Kousta Koufus 19pts and 7 reb for the Jazz on a losing effort.

**CKR13** · 07-10-2010, 02:01 AM

OKC 77 IND 73

UTA 85 PHI 56

ORL 80 CHA 77
* Sheron Collins lead the Bobcats with 32 points on a losing effort.

DEN 88 DAL 70

HOU 100 PHX 82

**CKR13** · 07-11-2010, 03:43 AM

TOR 103 PHX 69

DEN 92 LAL 74
*Ty Lawson finished with 18 pts and 7 asts for the Nuggets.

DET 89 GSW 69
*Austin Daye with 20 pts leading the Pistons while Greg Monroe had 8 rebs.

**silnismo** · 07-12-2010, 05:06 AM

Sun Yue's debut in the summer leauge in 4 minutes of action: 0-1 FG 1Reb 1Stl 2 blk's

**CKR13** · 07-12-2010, 05:33 AM

NYK 80* DEN 100**
* Toney Douglas had 28 pts, 6 reb and 5 asts.
** Ty Lawson lead the Nets with 28 pts and 5 asts.

POR 84* HOU 67
*Luke Babbit 13 pts and Patrick Mills with 9 asts

WAS 84* GSW 79
*John Wall with 24 pts and 8 asts.

MIA 77 NOH 72

**CKR13** · 07-15-2010, 05:57 AM

HOU 82 DEN 75

TOR 102 NYK 89

SAS 89 ATL 84

CHI 79 LAC 50

CLE 93 PHX 82
*JJ Hickson 34 pts 9 rebs.

SAC 79 MIN 78
*Cousins with 22 pts 12 rebounds and asts.

**CKR13** · 07-16-2010, 10:09 AM

LAL 71 SAS 80

GSW 86 PHX 76

WAS 88* DAL 82
John Wall 21 pts, 8 rebounds 10 assists.

ATL 83 MIL 60

LAC 72 POR 71

MEM 101* D-League Selection Team 85
*Sam Young had 35 points while Thabeet had 14 boards.

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