Damian Lillard

He played only 36 games anyway, just a weird Milwaukee Bucks season.

Also no Damian Lillard, which was a big deal.

Um, and those...

And Minnesota dropped to like 15th and that was just sort of like a, you know, the shooting percentages.

Sharpe could've been forward, but he's out for a while, and Avdija is, like, kinda the last man standing there.

Then you've got Klingon at center and guards up the wazoo: Jrue Holiday, Ja Morant, Scoot Henderson, Damian Lillard.

That's ...

The guard position is a mess.

Yeah, my solution is teams should be able to trade it.

It should just be like a contract, right? Like, say you're the Bucs and you have waved and stretched Damian Lillard and you have $22 million in dead money on your books for the next five years.

You should just be able to treat that as matching salary in a trade, like just a cap figure that you can trade.

And if you trade it, the team that you trade it to gets that on their books for however long that it is.

That's what I think it would be.

I think very few teams would want to trade for Damian Lillard's dead money or Bradley Beal's dead money.

But if you're the Bucs and you're trading Addison Tedekumpo and you're saying, well, Heat, we want to get everything that you have, one thing that Heat should have had was the ability to take on Milwaukee's dead money for them.

And I think that would open up a lot of interesting things as far as finding value in trades.

As a result, you have a transfer portal where students, athletes can transfer.

And what's happening today, you now find universities, in order to improve their retention of the athletes, they go back to people like Steph Curry, they go back to people like Dame Lillard, come back and be on the board of our sports governing institution so that you can retain these students.

They're well paid.

In today's social media arena and creators, This is just, no guy shouldn't be looking for

Yeah, I

mean, some of those, like, I think Damian Lillard is a GM or whatever.

So, yeah, I think, like, everybody's role is different.

All right, well, that wraps up this live.

Twyman Stokes Teammate of the Year Award to the 2018 Twyman Stokes Teammate of the Year Award to Jamal Crawford.

Two of these annual occurrences, the avalanche of money given to individual players and the trophy for teammate of the year that, if we're interpreting Damian Lillard's body language correctly, is very heavy, seem to represent two opposing parts of professional basketball, the capitalistic individual and the generous communal.

A majority of a team's payroll goes to just a few players, the same players whose faces are used to get people to follow the team.

That can feel at odds with the fact that basketball is a team game.

Obviously, Tatum.

I mean, I know with, like, Lillard, he could have came back last year.

Like, I do think we need to adjust our, you know, forever.

It was, like, 12 months was what we thought of with Achilles.

That was kind of a problem to fix itself.

But obviously with Damian Lillard there, top three pick in Scoot Henderson, there are guys who should not share the floor together much.

But just the nature of the beast, Chris Haynes reports that they're going to start.

Damian Lillard and John Morant, we'll see if that holds on day one.

Maybe they bring Damian off the bench.

uh dame is quite removed i think it's like 15 16 months from his achilles tear he should be 100 when the three-point contest so um yes um what do we make mix this team who also should note they lost their coach but they bring in mcnory who i just mentioned earlier they played fat they played really fast to start and then some injuries kind of slowed them down so um what do we expect for this offense and overall look like for the blazers