DAL, SAS, PHI, CHA, UTA Summer Leaguers; Dame's Return, Lakers Smart Move

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

Nate and Danny react to Damian Lillard and Marcus Smart finding new homes on the buyout market, plus the rest of the league news. Then, a look at the Summer Leaguers from the teams that drafted in the top-5, including of course Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper, VJ Edgecombe, Kon Knueppel, and Ace Bailey DAL: 22:28 SAS: 36:25 PHI: 52:47 CHA: 1:14:09 UTA: 1:41:27

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0:00.0	All right, welcome on to a Sunday night edition of Dunk Tom.
0:04.2	Thanks so much for joining us.
0:06.1	We are looking forward to getting into the NBA Summer League, but we had some news,
0:12.6	one of which dropped immediately after we had recorded last time.
0:18.6	Damia Lillard will return to the Portland Trail Losers.
0:21.5	He will. And it's a notable contract structure and also includes a quick admission of
0:27.5	incorrectness from me, which is I predicted on that podcast that it was going to be a while
0:32.5	until a non-superstar player got a no trade clause. It happened like two hours after we've recorded.
0:39.4	Damien Lillard.
0:40.4	Well, I re-listened to that, Danny, and you're being too hard on yourself.
0:44.3	Because what you said is someone who is not a first ballot Hall of Famer, I believe
0:49.4	Damien Lillard will be a first ballot hall of favor.
0:51.4	Oh, that's, yay.
0:53.1	Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
0:54.7	Solid C-Y-A there.
0:56.2	Yeah, but.
0:56.7	Yeah.
0:56.9	And also worth noting, too, that usually a no trade clause is going to be on some huge,
1:05.5	massive contract.
1:07.1	And I actually think teams should be a little bit more aggressive maybe in giving out no trade clauses on lower level contracts as a way to seal the deal because it doesn't really matter that much if you can't trade the guy if it's a pretty small number.
1:24.5	So I think this is, I don't think it's a bad deal or anything for Portland to
1:29.8	give out a no trade in this situation on a $14 million year contract. But anyway, please get
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