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Eric name.

You recently wrote about a scene that took place in Damien Lillard's house in his man cave specifically.

Can you take us into the basement of the Lillard home and tell us about the phone call

that the point guard got while he was down there?

Yeah, I mean the entire summer has been based on what is Damien Lillard going to do,

where is he going to play and the drama was he wanted to be in my alley.

You know, I was just kind of sitting there in my man cave. I didn't really know what was going

happen. I started to think like man, it might get the training camp and I might just be sitting

and waiting, you know. And instead when he got a call from his agent, he found out that he was

going to Milwaukee. And I had heard so many different things that I was like, you know,

am I really getting traded and he was like, he had received like print phone calls from other

players in the NBA, OG Annovi in Toronto had texted him and said, oh my God, I can't believe

you're coming Toronto and see how to check with his agent and see if that was actually real.

And after we got off the phone, I sat there and I was like, you know, I'm really,

I'm really moving on. And from there, he had to try to figure out what does that look like?

Who is on the team? Who did I get traded for? You know, who's going to be there? And then I looked

it up and you know, I saw what kind of team I was coming to be a part of and then I was

when the excitement kicked in.

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