And the Hello. Hello and

welcome to the Fancy Throwdown Podcast. I'm your host Wayne calendar.

Quite a bit going on with sports and of course with the NBA playoffs the NBA playoffs, the NHL playoffs going on. You got baseball in the mix,

Premier League and Champions League, winding down.

So quite a few topics to talk about.

But first, I want to talk about someone

who wanted a bunch of attention on himself and sometimes when you ask for something

you better be aware of when it doesn't go the way you plan that you're gonna take some heat for it.

So the guy I'm talking about is Damien Lillard

of the Portland Trail Blazers.

Now, of course, them being up in the northwest, no one really pays that much attention to Portland all

things consider in not exactly a hot spot in terms of immediate coverage at

standpoint so I get it from Lert's perspective that he's trying to promote

himself given that he's been an NBA also for a number of years now, but he has, he had fallen off the radar in terms of all-star voting.

He complained about getting on the NBA all-star team and saying that he absolutely deserved to be on the team this year,

but he went a step further before the playoffs even began.

Instead of talking about the playoffs themselves, he started talking about being how he should be an NBA all first team player

Which again not even Steph Curry gets to be NBA All-Star first team at the position because James Hardin Russell Westbrook are there.

So even Steph doesn't get NBA first team honors.

So for Lillard to go to this level,

I mean, if you're gonna talk that big of a game,

you gotta back it up come post-season time and lo and behold we've got a first round series between

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