You can't put a price tag on this:

Portland Trail Blazers forward Darius MilesMiles, in an interview with Jason Quick of the Portland Oregonian:

"Yeah,you probably smelled liquor on me before. But it's not like I'm at practice drunk. I'm totally focused. I don't care if you come to practice and take a shower, once you go to practice and start sweating, it's going to come out. That doesn't mean you aren't focused or ready to practice.

Like you might go out, you might get drunk, and come to the gym higherthan a mother, and you sweating, you smell like liquor, and you interviewing everybody. What does that mean? You still 100 percent focused. That's just ridiculous. Ask any other team, little petty stufflike that, if you ask any other coach in the NBA if they smell liquor on aplayer, any coach would say, 'Every year."'

In the same interview, Miles, who wants out of Portland, detailed some ofhis concerns with Trail Blazers management. "It's like you are telling me I'm this franchise player, but hey ... once I noticed it, and I was like dang, 'I don't have no bobble head?' They tried to get me one at the last minute, and I was like, 'No, I'm fine.' "But I don't want to sound like I'm whining. But this is what you all are telling me. You mean to tell me, if they have a Steve Nash, a Raja Bell,Amare Stoudemire, and a Boris Diaw bobblehead, they wouldn't have a ShawnMarion? But I don't want this whole interview to sound like I'm whining." Too late.