WTF from Shams; "The Bucks found a creative path to waive and stretch Lillard -- whose salary will be stretched over the next five seasons -- while leaving their future draft assets untouched." The Bucks don't own any picks until 2031 - congrats on leaving those picks untouched!
113 remaining on Dame deal over 5 year stretch is 22.6 million cap hit per year. Think we could be a HUGE beneficiary in that as it prevents them from adding talent when we have their pick in 2028-2030.
Think he would say that regardless just to be nice to Dame. He's not going to say he loves the move as thats a slap in Dame face. Giannis said all sort of nice things about Jrue when he left.
Don't care. If he wants to retire get him a coaches salary. Or maybe just give him the coaches salary in the meantime. I don't care. I just want him part of the organization again. And hopefully for good.
But that does tell us that Dame isn't happy - Haynes wouldn't be trying to spin the move negatively if not.
You think Dame wants to be the 3rd PG behind Scoot and Jrue? Makes no sense for either party. Let him get healthy and go to a team that has an opening at PG. Or if he cant get healthy he just retires. It's like fans here don't realize an achilies injury is the most brutal injury in the NBA.
Why? So he can have Blevins on the roster? Don't forget how him and his camp tried to screw Joe Cronin on the way out of town, plus bad mouthed him. Not that I'm the biggest Cronin fan - but it was beyond unprofessional.
He can sit on the bench and rehab for a year. Just give him a 1-year deal to have him on the team and mentor folks. He can do whatever he wants after.
Not that it matters, but I would be fine with this. Vet min. He will miss all of this next season and the following season he will be knocking the rust off, reinventing his game. If he is blowing up let him go and do his thing where he wants. Blazers owe him nothing but love and respect.
We have Jrue for that. Do we really need two old veteran allstar PG battling out who should lead the team? There's no use for that many cooks in the kitchen.
