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Brad Miller Back To Chicago?
According to the report, the Bulls have had discussions with Sacramento about center Brad Miller while guard Larry Hughes has been attracting some interest. Some options, according to McGraw, include include Portland's Joe Przybilla, New York's Jared Jeffries, Dallas' Erick Dampier, or Denver's Kenyon Martin. Chicago Bulls, Sacramento Kings, Dallas Mavericks, Portland Trail Blazers Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Blazers Could Make Run At Deng Next Summer?
The Blazers will have loads of cap room next year and they are very high on Deng. Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Blazers May Have Violated Federal Regulations On Miles' Comments
Miles underwent microfracture surgery on his right knee and has not played since April 15, 2006. After a long rehabilitation period, the team first ruled him unfit to play and then sought an independent physician’s examination of the knee. That physician ruled Miles’ injury was career ending – which was important to the Blazers on two fronts that have to do with finances. “Two doctors said Darius had the worst microfracture injury they had ever seen,” Pritchard said on an Oregonlive.com blog this week. “They would never have him play basketball, and the odds of having knee replacement surgery is high. I hear that, and as a general manager, I didn’t want it on my conscience — that I had a kid have to go through a knee replacement surgery. That’s a pretty major surgery. They saw (two bones) and replace (the knee). It’s a bad deal.” Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Trail Blazers Jul 2008 Archive
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With Jerry Reinsdorf and director of player personnel Gar Forman taking a greater role in contract negotiations, Bulls GM John Paxson has been freed up to talk trades with other teams, according to a report by Mike Mcgraw of the Daily Herald.
Luol Deng looks like the best candidate of the remaining restricted free agents to take the one-year tender and try his luck again next summer. 
A violation of federal regulations in regard to public comments about the medical condition of former player Darius Miles may have been committed by the Trail Blazers, specifically General Manager Kevin Pritchard.