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First Take

Hour 1: It's About Dame Time

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Brian Windhorst, Kendrick Perkins, and Courtney Cronin take over the show to debate what the best landing spot would be for Damian Lillard after he requested a trade from Portland over the weekend. Plus, Draymond Green has agreed to a new deal to stay in Golden State, so is this Warriors roster a legitimate threat in the West? Speaking of the West, the Lakers made a few free agency moves that LeBron should be happy with... or should he? The crew gives their takes on various free agency signings around the league including Russell Westbrook, Donte Divincenzo, and Khris Middleton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, good morning. Welcome in the first take. I'm Christine Williamson. We've got my girl Courtney Cronin in studio.

0:06.0

Wendy and Parker here. How's everybody doing? Have a good weekend?

0:11.4

What's going on? What's happening?

0:15.2

Wendy, you good? I'm pretty good. Wendy, you good? We're recovering from free agency. We're

0:19.5

in free agency. So what do y'all been to say? Yeah, Wendy isn't slept. Exactly. Wendy is

0:25.5

the wide awake, even though he hasn't slept. We love that for him. Okay, let's start with it,

0:29.0

because we did have a very fun free agency weekend. And we start with Dame Dalla. After the first

0:34.4

11 seasons of his career in Portland, Damien Lillard has requested a trade. His preference is to take

0:40.0

his talents to South Beach. His source told Anne Skates, Mark J. Spears. He also has, quote,

0:44.7

deep respect for the San Antonio Spurs, Erguna's organization. Source is told,

0:49.4

Proudona Shelburn. Here is Adrian Wojdernaowski with the latest out of Portland.

0:54.1

They are open for business everywhere in the league on him. Now, our Mark Spears

0:58.9

reports that Damien Lillard wants to play for the Miami Heat that he has told the Blazers that.

1:04.4

But he does not have a no trade clause in the way that Bradley Beal did. He does not get the

1:08.6

control where he goes next. And for Portland, listen, they're going to go out into the marketplace

1:14.3

and try to find the best deal they can. It's a combination of young players, draft picks,

1:20.4

salary cap relief, all the things you want when a star of Damien Lillard's magnitude

1:24.8

has to be traded. I think this will not be a quick process. Miami does not have any advantage

1:31.0

in trying to get a trade for Damien Lillard just because he's asking to go there.

1:36.0

I like what Arjay said. It's about Dametime. All right, Wendy, I'm going to start with you on

1:40.2

this one. What is the market for Lillard? Well, the realistic market, Christine, is not that deep.

1:47.5

And the reason is because he is a 33 year old player with 200 million left on his contract.

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