Tipping Off

"I don't understand that doghouse stuff. I'm playing the guys Ifeel can help us win games. There's no doghouse. If you have a momwho can play and guard people and shoot threes, I'll play her, too."

Byron Scott, New Orleans Hornets coach, when asked recently

whether guard J.R. Smith had emerged from the doghouse

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BAD ATTITUDE: Expect the Portland Trail Blazers to shopunderachieving forward Darius Miles this summer. Although coach NateMcMillan won't say it publicly, team insiders say he has had it withMiles' indifference.

Perhaps the last straw came Wednesday against the Los AngelesClippers when Miles, who was coming off an injury, …