Hope that doesn't mean he'll stop coming in! Also, this particular sports columnist has a serious fascination with athletes going to strip clubs, as if it were unusual, noteworthy, or related to performance.





Hope that doesn't mean he'll stop coming in! Also, this particular sports columnist has a serious fascination with athletes going to strip clubs, as if it were unusual, noteworthy, or related to performance.
John cazano, what the fuck are you doing trying to make this guy's strip club patronage into some tragic story? Greg Oden needs to start smoking crack or something. Though that wouldn't be a news story unless it was in the VIP room, I suppose.What's left is a guy with a bad knee running the stage at a gentlemen's club.![]()
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I don't think it's "news" that athletes go to strip clubs.
It's a legal business. As long as he's not doing drugs or driving under the influence or assaulting the girls or anything illegal, what's the big deal?
Thanks for noting that, Susan.
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He was there that Thursday(Feb 7th) also....I remember seeing some tall guy by the DJ and telling my buddy "I think that's Darius Miles" and of course my friend going "okay I have no idea who that is"
I'd think that it'll only help biz, having the club mentioned like that. I agree that it isn't news worthy though. Most of Portland's reporting isn't.
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Must be a slow news day![]()
Promote yourself and earn more money! This is a business that is owned by strippers for strippers. Let's make that money!





Yall are missing the point of the article. The fact he was at a stripclub is NOT why the writer is saying the guy should retire. He's saying he should retire because he can't play for shit anymore (due to injury), and he's accusing the guy of only sticking around for practice to collect the fat paychecks (which afford him the ability to make it rain at the stripclub and such).
He isn't saying the stripclub has anything to do with his basketball performance.
Portland fans and some sports journalists are pissed because he's signed for $48 and now he can't play and they can't trade him. It's just a huge waste of money for a team and journalists have been trying to say that he's not trying hard enough to get back in the game since he's going to get his money either way. They make mention him smoking, drinking and eating at Cold Stone Creamery in various articles.
He is going to get the money regardless of what he does. It's not "pay for play" and this is a criticism of the NBA right now. Miles told me when he does retire, he's getting out of Portland ASAP.





^Which was what that writer was getting at. He's saying the guy's pro ball playing days are over but the guy won't admit it and retire because he wants the money. Seemed to me he was expressing his frustration at the guy for taking money he isn't earning.




^^^which still seems wrong to me. It ain't Canzano's money and the team owners don't seem to mind.
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I'm not missing the point of anything; I'm wondering what the hell the strip club has to do with the writer's ostensible point in the first place! I'm sure if he wanted to , the writer could have done a color piece on how Miles hangs out at his neighborhood restaurant or whatever. Anyhow, whenever Canzano has his hate on for a Trailblazer he brings up his stripclubbing habits. This isn't the first column of its type.
Miles is done in the NBA. Some local journalists are pissed that the Trail Blazers "wasted" $48 million on his contract. That's the point. They like to pick on his personal habit of throwing money at strippers (which was pretty fuckin' awesome I must say) because they feel that he doesn't deserve his millions.
Oh and Lunar, the team owners do mind that they signed him for $48 million dollars and he might never play again. Just sayin'.




Heh. It won't be the first bad financial decision by Paul Allen et. al.
And I'm sure it won't be the last.![]()
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After the headline, writer devoted 4 paragraphs to stripclub escapade before moving on to bb playing/performance issues. How many newspaper readers do you think read the full article?? Nope, Trail Blazers fans already know about subjects subpar performance. Others already know about pro athletes astronomical salaries, and how THEY (the reader) feel about stripclubs, and indiscriminately tossing around stacks of dollar bills. No, people are going to fixate on 1st 4 short paragraphs.
Regretably, writers feel the need to toss a red herring into the mix. You can bet your shift $$ that if D. Miles had (instead of stripclub) walked into a luxury car dealership with a suitcase full of Benjamins to buy a high $$ car or SUV, that would have been mentioned first, too. Or would it??![]()




Agreed. My read of the article was that the author seemed to cast aspersions on Mr. Miles' character and judgement simply because he chooses to patronize a strip club. This is on point, as he goes on to continue to point out the flaws of the person that is Darius Miles.
It just seems odd in this context because we are knowledgeable about strip clubs and their goings on and, therefore, often forget that we are supposed to be offended and outraged simply because a consenting adult would choose to call on such an establishment.
You and I don't think that Darius Miles going to strip clubs is necessarily an indictment of his worth as a human being. But some of the audience of that article probably did.![]()
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"See, believe it or not (and I don't care whether you do), it's never been about the sex. I get sex at home, anytime, and we like it, and it's good for both of us. No, my stripclub experience has been about acceptance, and affirmation, and desirability...There have been some women who have a personality that just clicks with mine, and in the faux-sex atmosphere of the club, it's a mix that is completely seductive." - Jay Zeno
The thing I don't get is that it's my understanding from talking with the contractors over the years that he's known a complete gentleman around places like The Dolphin II, unlike Don't_Want_To_Expose_Anyone_To_Libel at Exotica or Can't_Say_The_Name at D2 & Stars. Don't_Want_To_Expose_Anyone_To_Libel frequently walked out on tabs, while Can't_Say_The_Name used to assume all the women working there were there to entertain him for free, were hookers who wanted to go back to his West Linn home, and used to take rookies like Don't_Want_To_Expose_Anyone_To_Libel around to clubs on nights after games. (Needless to say, he really bothered the crap out of the contractors.)
The latter was also married, and said "columnist" adored him, even though that's another one of the moral benchmarks hypocrites like to cite. In Portland, at least, probably 75% of unattached men with a pulse have probably been in a strip bar at least a couple of times.
As for the morality of it- it's been my experience that people who go on and on about such things publicly are usually trying to distract people from the truly hideous dirty laundry they've accumulated.
I'm sure Miles is no boy scout, and I'm not a fan of how he's worked out as a player, but I think he's done pretty well for young kid who's had millions of dollars thrown at him for playing a game. At his age, I don't even want to think of the stupid things I would have done if I'd had half the opportunities Miles has had to go off the rails.





Once you're skipping a cousin's funeral in favor of Exotica during bereavement leave from the team I think you're enough of a douchebag to have your name named, so I don't think you need to worry about Zach Randolph's good name. Not to mention the rape charges, though those were dropped.
Miles' behavior in the club was better than that of some off-duty law enforcement and really, his guys just partied and did their thing, and were never a problem. Pretty chill and nice dudes, all in all.
buuuut hey, I'm prejudiced. If all you want to do is throw bags of money at my ass, asking nothing in return but that I continue bouncing it, I'm good with that.
Darius is chill...for sure. He's 27! And Susan your ass moves are amazing!
True that. She can clap her ass upside down on the pole.
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No more letting my ass jack threads! And I can't quite clap it upside down on the pole. Yet.
^ you did it!! I was standing three feet away from you, I saw the clapping.
And yes, I definitely like this thread better. Can we just rename it "Susan's Ass"to get some more attention and participation?
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