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Joy Taylor is joining me. So the big story today is Henry Abbott is reporting now there's multiple people reporting that Damian Lillard is interested in the next Damian Lillard is going to request a trade now

What what always happens in situations like this immediately is everybody denies it all his teammates are out, nerdkidges out. No he's my buddy. This is nonsense. You know

Nothing happens till it happens like my entire life. There's always a story behind the story. The first book I wrote you heard me that was the theme of my book

There's always a story behind the story. You want to be be asked or you want the truth Damian's not happy. I know that

Okay, Damian's not happy Aaron Rogers isn't happy when when when when when Damian's DMing me and he's interested in my opinion on something which he's not very often he's he's testing a water. He's unhappie. He's been here nine years and remember Damian's got the money box checked. He got his money and Damian's got the respect box check. He's a hall of fame and everybody loves him. He didn't have the win box checked. He wants win games. Okay, fans. So don't pretend you can relate to him.

Money is a hundred million plus net worth respect first bout hall of fame or loved. He's got music. He got shoes. Not how many wins. He wants wins. You know, get him in Portland. This team is not a championship team. Hell you couldn't beat Denver without Jamal Murray. Golden States rebooting. LeBron and AD are healthy. So he wants to win. Well, Chauncey billups doesn't mean anything. Chauncey billups has not taken this roster of the title. So it's all about the game.

It's all about checking boxes that we've seen this time and time again. You know, Kevin Durant, the money box. It's checked. It's done. The titles box for Kevin Durant. Okay, that was checked. He wanted. He wanted Brooklyn to him was like.

I just want to be my own guy like it. It's all about life checking boxes, right? You as a parent check boxes. Okay, we got the 401k. My wife and I. We won't be on the street. Okay.

We are kids. Colleges paid for check. Do we we're all checking boxes in life. Dames got into the point now where the only box that is unchecked is winning and playing in the finals.

You put him on Philadelphia with joe. L. M. B. and that teams get into the finals. If you got if you had joe. L. M. B. Dame Lurd and Tobias Harris, that teams making the finals in the east, maybe not in the west, but in the east.

So you know, the I everybody's going to deny it. And by the way, Dame is in the middle of, you know, working out for the Olympics. The Olympics start July 23rd opening ceremonies basketball like July 25th.

So remember this. Does Dame because Dame will be asked about this today tomorrow the next day. Does Dame want to disrupt the Olympic experience with this story? No.

I mean, the last thing Dame wants to do is the whole Olympics is about Damien Lurd going to basketball teams. Remember years ago, the baseball star. It was the baseball postseason. And a rod was rumored to be getting traded.

And a rods yapping about getting traded during the world series. And at the time, I think it was Bud Ceeleks like shut up. Stop it. We're in the middle of a world series. I don't want a rod trade talk. You know, leading all the shows commissioners don't like that.

And you say basketball, Dame smart. He doesn't want this story to take over the Olympic experience. This team's already got enough issues. They just signed Javail McGee as their ring protector.

They got enough issues. Bradley Biel Camplay Kevin love. So I'm not going to listen to blazer players or local media in Portland, who's rooting for his day. And I don't even think Dame wants to address this. Now he wants to get through the Olympics.

And then the minute the Olympics are over, boom, let's talk about it. So and he's in no hurry, right? Like he's going to have a million suitors. Everybody in the league wants to. I mean, listen, golden state has clay Thompson and Steph Curry and they want Dave.

They have the best back court and league history and they want him. I mean, that, that, I mean, that's like Kansas City saying, you know what? We want another quarterback. We know we've got my homes. We want another one.

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