DAMIAN LILLARD IS A BUCK

Well, I have to talk about the Damien Lillard trade now

This is not how I was expecting to spend my Wednesday. This is insane

There are so many angles to this. Obviously, this video is going to be unedited because I have to get this out immediately

But there are so many angles to this that I'm probably going to have to make three different videos

that are directly a result of this trade. Um, um, so Damian Lillard is on the box and I'm like, I'm just freaking out because obviously

no one expected this to happen. Um, it's just so crazy. Um, I think the one, the one take I'll get off right now, this is the rare, hang on, sorry

I just got a phone call notification. I'll have to get that later. This is an extremely rare instance of a three-team trade where I think every team wins

I think every team wins this trade. Obviously, the Bucks are like the best team in the East now

The Suns got a bunch of depth for DeAndre, which I think is exactly what they needed

And the Blazers got enough assets, I think, for the game. So I really think they win this trade

So this is just crazy. um like the heat don't have damian lillard um and the bucks do uh it's just i mean like what

like what do you want me to say like the damian lillard like yannis pick and roll is gonna be so ridiculous that there's gonna be no team that can stop them um the suns have depth now which is

insane um because i was talking so much shit about them um uh and they're not that uh before

But here we are I think the two best teams in the league Arguably

Maybe the two best teams in the conferences Other than the Nuggets

Who I still think are better than the Suns The Nuggets have much more serious competition now

In my opinion And the Bucks are now insane I guess if we want to get into Some of of the like some of the logistics of it um so the blazers got i think a 28 28 and a 2030 unprotected milwaukee pick

or i think just a 2030 they got pick swaps i think in 2029 and 27 they got two pick swaps

and at least one draft pick um which are and they're good picks

um you know like in theory at least uh obviously like any team they are trading game to is just

going to be like rolling the dice on whether or not those picks are good um and deandre ayton is

like a fantastic young player for them to get i think they've he's been in need of a change of

scenery for a while now i think his ceiling is a lot higher than um what a lot of people who have

seen him on the suns think it is i keep i can't i just can't get 2021 playoff ayton out of my head

I think that's really who he is, which is like an all-star caliber center

And so I think he's a perfect fit there because they don't have any young centers

And I think not having to go through the headache of getting Tyler Hero in the trade is like —that's awesome too

And what else? Drew Holiday is on the Blazers? that's a big deal because they can probably turn him into probably i think you can probably get two

first good like do two solid first round picks for drew holiday or like a first round picking a good

young player i'm not sure what destination would be for him i guess now you could argue that they

could trade him to philly um if they if philadelphia ends up losing james harden there are a lot of

angles to where like a drew holiday trade is also extremely significant but i'm not even going to

open that can of worms because honestly i don't really know i just know that the blazers are

probably going to add one more young player or more draft picks probably before the season starts

because i can't imagine their backcourt is already so crowded and then so the suns added i think

Nurkic. I know they lost their rookie to Mani Kamara. They added Nasir Little, Keon Johnson

and like one or two other players And really they just needed bodies I think Nasir Little is probably better than most of the players they signed in free agency

if not all of them. Nurkic definitely is. And I don't think he's that big of a downgrade from Aiden

considering the way they were using Aiden anyway. It's a defensive downgrade for sure

This team's got very little rim protection, which I think is going to be another one of their undoings

They don't really have an elite defensive center. like Aiton was pretty damn good

Aiton was underrated on that end, especially in the playoffs. And now they have an injury prone guy

who like doesn't really defend well. So man, that's an angle. We can talk about the Heat not getting Dame

Like I guess the Heat are just going to be like the, the Heat might miss the playoffs now actually

because now their whole, the whole thing that their off season was predicated on

doesn't exist. so, like, do the Heat go after a different star

Do the Heat go after James Harden? The Heat might have to go after James Harden now

which I guess is interesting. If that happens, it's crazy, but that would also probably have to be a three-teamer

and I'm not going to get into that either because I think that's highly unlikely

just going off their culture. And then, like, if we talk about the Bucs

I mean, they lost, like, I really don't think they lost that much depth, did they

They lost Drew Holiday. They lost Pix. I don't know, man. They really didn't lose that much

I'm assuming they lost some other role players that I'm forgetting about or didn't see in the trade

So, and I imagine, like, the full details of this trade, just, like, the contracts

I assume this tree will continue to unfold. I think the James Harden trade

even though it looked like a three-teamer in the beginning, I think it ended up like five teams ended up being a part of that trade

So this will still evolve over the next few hours. I just had to get this out now. This is so crazy, so truly mind-blowing

I mean, I have to imagine the Bucks are the favorites now to win the title

if not an easy number two I think they definitely going to the finals I think this probably like their championship window probably hasn been extended by this

because, like, this roster could very quickly just age out. Depending on Dame's longevity

though, this could, like, this could be way better than, like, a Clyde Drexler-Hakim situation. I

think it's going to be way better than that, most likely. I think this gives the Bucks at least

three shots, like three really good shots, three better shots to win more titles

So yeah, this looks really awesome. I'm a little bit, I'm still not 100% sure on Phoenix

but I feel a little bit better about them now. And I feel pretty good about the trade for the

Blazers, even though I still have no respect for Joe Cronin for holding. But I guess I understand

why he did that now. Because like we were all clowning the Blazers for not just getting this

over with because it looked like the writing was on the wall, but knowing now that, um

now that they can get this better package, because this package I think is just better than anything they could have ever gotten from, uh, from Miami straight up. Like Miami would have

had to be a three team trade. And I think it just would have been more of a headache because, um, like you can't really trade Tyler Harrow to the, uh, Portland Trailblazers, like in that

hypothetical heat trade, but none of that matters now, um, this is just crazy, um, just soak it up

man, this is the NBA, baby, it's the craziest, it's the craziest league in the world, um

I, like, I haven't uploaded in, like, like, like a month, and I wasn't planning to, like

I was planning to, like, finish a series that I'm probably not gonna be able to finish now

There's just not enough time left before the season starts. Also, I'm just not that interested in talking to all 30 teams in depth

and trying to script shit and whatnot. So I guess we'll just have to..

I'll try and start uploading regularly. For any of you that see this..

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