 Ladies and gentlemen Damian Lillert is a Milwaukee buck. I was out. I was running errands I zoomed up. I went to speed limit. I did not zoom home I went to speed limit got home and it is time to talk about it if you've been living under rock I do want to show you the details This is all one take Kenny if you do want to hear me talk more in depth about this I will be doing an episode on a Kenny Beach and podcast about it in a couple hours after I let these emotions fly and I think about it more logically and also we're doing an emergency episode through the wire podcast in a couple hours. So there's more content. There's more opinions. This is just a bite size. Oh my god video So if you're under rock here is the details of the trade. So Damian Lillert is a Milwaukee buck The blazers bring Andrew Holliday, Deandre, Aiden, Kamara I don't know if I'm pronouncing that man's name, right? I don't even know if I've ever seen him play basketball a 2029 first round pick and some swaps and the Suns get use of Narciss and Azir little Keon Johnson and Grayson Allen and then these pick swaps Is a 2029 pick and then a swap in 2028 and 30 that is the details of the trade and this two-month saga of Damian Lillert It's over with there was rumors that the trailblazers were very adamant about getting it done before media day Which is in a couple days and here we are I'm actually very surprised with this if you were asking me which teams that I feel the most likelihood to pull off a Damian Lillertry obviously the Miami Heat would be number one on that list But after that because of the rumors from the Toronto Raptors over the last 48 hours or so They were pretty high on the list the Bucks were a team that I thought the fit would be there But I didn't think the assets were there and here we are So I want to tackle this from every team's perspective again give initial opinions and things are evolving I'm gonna change my opinion. That's just the way it is The Bucks walk at it is feeling really really good Their star player one of the top two three players in all of basketball yanta that a kumpo went on a nice media run We're in multiple interviews. He expressed the idea that he is a champion He wants to be a champion again He is a winner and though he loves Milwaukee if he's not put in a position if the team is not built in the position to win The championship then he's willing to go when championships are the places he's eligible for his extension He has not signed it and he put pressure He took a page out of Kobe Bryant's book if y'all remember Kobe Bryant did something very similar one off season with the Lakers Santa. Hey, I want to be traded he was this close to getting traded to the Bulls and then it didn't happen and then They went on to trade for pal gasol and a couple more championships came after that Yanis I believe in my heart that Yanis wants to be a buck for life But this is a leverage play to say hey, man If you want to keep me in your market, you have to go make the adjustments drew holiday Broglo Piss Chris Middleton These are all aging players and though Damian Lillish also 33 years old We're talking about a top 10 ish player in the game of basketball This is a match made in heaven the picking the Let me regain my consciousness. I need to take a step back The potential picking role with Damian Yanis and Yanis is the role man with Chris Middleton and Brooke Lopez It's out there and just stretching the floor. Come on, man This team a team that just was the one see the team that just won a championship a few years ago Looks even more dangerous now I'm not gonna look past the fact that drew holiday is by many people's opinions the best perimeter defender in all Basketball and they just lost that and Damian Lillish when we talk about the defensive side of the ball You know that that drew was up here and Dam is down here comparison Bo bo bo boy That's all I'm saying the offense is about to go to a whole new level and yes They will probably take a step back defensively But they have a former defensive player of the year and Yanis in a guy that finished top 3 in DPO Why I'm Brooke Lopez and though Brooke Lopez is about to be 36 years Oh, their defense should be still good enough where you look at this offensive jump and you're just saying man They did it now these draft picks they gave up. It's not like no poo-poo thing 2029 is 36 years from now at least an NBA terms You know how much the league can change in just two years and we're talking about draft capital from what six years from now This pick these picks can be valuable a pick swap in 2028 Pick swap in 2030 who knows if Dave is still on the roster if if Yanis is still on the roster And I think that's the bet that the Portland Trail Blazers are taking right now Maybe this doesn't work out as much as the Bucks believe and then Yanis still walks and so on and so forth and Having three years worth of Bucks picks if Yanis isn't there sounds valuable. Sure Maybe that's the side but I'm just looking at the Bucks perspective for to have a superstar caliber player telling you that I need some help And you go out there and go get a top tennis play. I'm gonna keep saying top 10 ish Whatever top tennis player in basketball This is beautiful and you look past the fact that you gave up draft capital for somebody right now That's like a freshman in high school I don't know you look past that with the idea that we have one of the top players in ball And we just added another one of the top players of ball. What is the star lineup looks like? I don't I know I got four of them players Who's it? Who's the fifth player? Is it? Marjan Bochamp. Is it Pat Connaughton? Is it somebody like that? I don't know But it don't really matter You can sit at the rest of the pieces Chris Middleton looked a lot better in the playoffs and Torsi into the season once he came back, of course, Brooke was looking amazing and Yanis is who Yanis is this team if we're talking about the odds of who's winning the Eastern Conference based on what I see right now and the Milwaukee Bucks and the bosses Celsius both made adjustments this offseason the 76ers might make an adjustment soon with the James Harden stuff the Bucks and my opinion as of right now the couple minutes after the straight look like The favorite to win the Eastern Conference. Let's take a look at it from the Blazers perspective now In my opinion when we're talking about potential Damian little trades I've always thought about the idea of trading your star caliber players Super star caliber players who get young players as ref capital in return and they didn't get back young players They didn't I mentioned earlier Marjan Bochamp, and we don't know if he's gonna be a really good NBA player He looks solid so far in his career, but to not even get him in this trade is kind of weird to me I will say I'm excited to watch Blazers basketball anytime a team blow blows it up or makes a superstar adjustment I'm always interested in what it's gonna look like, but you holiday as a player That's probably not gonna spend the rest of his contract in on you How they also has said on record that he plans on retiring after this current contract once I think it's two years left I would assume that he probably comes into the Blazers plays for half of a season or so And they use his production as a way to get more draft capital or a younger player Deandre Aiden is the most interesting piece of all of this trade for the Blazers if you ask me because he has the potential to Stick on the roster you trade away Use of Nurkitz so your center position is there And Deandre Aiden being a former first overall pick has not hit Has not been able to express to us his complete talent now We're looking at the count of stats It's like 18 and 11 night in night out But that 18 and 11 doesn't hold as much weight to some players that maybe are averaging less than that I mean the guys on the through the wire podcast is that our yearly ranking centers position He was in the top 10 center in basketball. You look at his competition and we know he could be the one year When he gets the pelicans in the playoffs He was one of the main reasons they were able to get out of that series because he was dominant and Deandre Aiden is a player that has a potential to be Dominant but with the Suns where they be because of the front office because of the coaching that was mighty Williams Or because of the relationship whatever whatever he hasn't had the opportunity or he has the opportunity He hasn't been able to maximize that opportunity and maybe a change of scenery is that But he also is a player that was right after you guys rafter said my goal is to get my next contract my supermax My max contract and he got that and maybe he's just like I'm cool You know I'm saying I got 37 Ems in a bank every single year before attacks and stuff So I feel good But to have a change of scenery looking at a team that's gonna have drew holiday School Henderson Shayton sharp every science that's our guard court right now That's just the guard quarters those are four players that you want to develop at least in these cases You're just too good to not play right three pleasures trying to develop and then a veteran who by all accounts is a veterans veteran if I want somebody in my locker room that's gonna teach my young guards how to play How to be a professional is your holiday? So there's there's the value there I'm trying to talk myself into the I don't love it for the blazers. I'm beyond switch I don't love for the blazer at the moment, but I'm trying to talk myself into it, right? Deandre Aiden and Jeremy Grant are making max contracts on the roster and then you gave up in the zero little whatever They have some things we're like on the first day of the season the first couple weeks of the season I'm gonna be watching intently because of course scoot is really cool really good Your holiday is really good, and so on and so forth, but I am I'm just slightly slightly confused now Will I say this this tray pack is better than what the Miami Heat was offering? I believe so I believe so as of right now the Tyler hero in first-round picks again This it could have also been a three-teamer and most likely would have been a three-teamer to make him go there I would rather take your holiday who I could probably flip in six months What's I'm gonna? I'm just gonna assume that your holiday is getting traded to the Bulls eventually Even Deandre Aiden is a player that could potentially get flipped now If you look at every single team across the association so many of them have the center that they trust But you know you never really know you never really know but even if you don't trade them Deandre Aiden has a potential to show the world Hey, I was drafted over Luca and here's why in the moment It was kind of crazy in a moment, too Let's look at from Sun's perspective because the Sun's were a team that snuck into this There's rumors over the last week or so that they were looking for a defensive minded center to anchor it and use of Nurkits and use of Nurkits was the guy I'm gonna pull up my my tweets because when I heard that I was Let's just say a little maybe a little bit a little bit confused on it Let me pull that up real quick. So here it is Vogel needs a defensive minded center to build his defense around and Nurkits does fit that mode and I said I'm not sure if never mind now since he had the horrific injury Use of Nurkits has not been the impactful defender that he had been previously and even before that It wasn't like he was a top three defender in basketball, but he was adequate to pretty damn good and he has not been that recently so Again, maybe I haven't watched him enough over the last year or so is coming back But if you're asking me who impacts the game more defensively between DeAndre Aiden and use of Nurkits I would say they're probably right here here and if anything one person slightly higher than the other It wasn't like oh my god Now we got this defensive minded center use of Nurkits and we can run it and go win a championship Now I'm not surprised in the sense that when you go back to the original trade when when I talked about Them making a trade and I'm when I say them I mean the Phoenix Suns because again, I didn't think that DeAndre Aiden was gonna play that can the entirety of his contract I didn't think it was gonna happen this fast But I think he's gonna play the entirety of his contract when I thought about what DeAndre Aiden could turn into Because of the contract that is associated with him I knew that trading him for two for one makes a lot of sense for the Suns a team that needs depth And that's practically what they did. Honestly, they got three three really Rotational players for the price of DeAndre Aiden if I'm looking at the Suns though again And when you talk about just the optics of wanting a offensive minded center and them getting back use of Nurkits That that doesn't sit right But if you're talking about DeAndre Aiden whether he wanted to leave or for the front office thought it was best for them Getting a three for one because Grayson Allen it can play You know I'm saying he's been wishy-washy in the playoffs here But he can play and he's a guy that you can expect on the playoff roster to be one of your top eight guys Nizir little has a lot of ups and downs We were talking about regular season is your little is a guy that could get regular season minutes And so you traded away the big old contract that was DeAndre Aiden for multiple pieces I see that as a dub. Do I love the fit of having Nurkits as the back end on this Suns team? Not Nessa not necessarily and hopefully use of Nurkits can prove me wrong yet again But again the three for one is pretty interesting. It's pretty pretty interesting So if I was gonna go out and grade this all I Feel like you highly was a player that was gonna retire a buck man I'm beyond after the win in the championship. It felt like he was a guy that was gonna be just there and He will always get the love like that first game back. He's gonna get a tribute video He's gonna get a standing ovation like that's gonna happen The Bucks getting getting a because I'm wavering the risk Because I have Yanis You know what I'm saying? I'm wavering the risk because I have Yanis and Yanis balances it all and and Investing in Yanis, which is what you're doing right now is worth worth it Even if it doesn't work out because that's how talented he is right the Blazers man Not getting any young pieces. I think DeAndre is 25 so I in the grand scheme of things He's still a young player, but once you end up getting a max contract I don't really look at you as young anymore young players in my opinion is typically a guy that's still on his Ricky Dio or something like that for the Blazers trading one of the two best players in your franchise history. I Don't love it But in 2029 it could look amazing You know in a couple months it could look amazing if you flip drew holiday for what I believe his value could be for contending team Drew holiday is I don't need to sing praise about your holiday And if I'm the sun sneaking in and getting three rotational players for the price of one really big contract that The love had been lost between the organization him feels like a duck Again, these are just my initial reactions. The biggest loser in all of this is of course D Miami heat Damian Lillard practically cried his way to Miami and didn't I get there? A couple days ago this another tweet came out and let me let me showcase this one Another tweet came out that said that Miami he believed they could win it east with their current roster and will not act desperate for Damian Lillard Well Could they win the east of the current roster for sure? Yep, but their likelihood of doing that now because he went to one of the one of the teams that you were gonna be competing with Now you did just beat them to play I was like a graduation, but the fact that he went to a fake rival is An ale Undoubtedly and when this tweet came out, I tweeted without acquiring Dane this offseason Was as bad as he can get now and from my I did a bad part Explain to what I mean because obviously the Miami heat picked up Josh Richardson Who's a quality player and back in heat culture and so on and so forth So it's not like they lost everything though that it lost Max Drew since so on and so forth What I really meant when I was tweeting that was saying I'm not talking about talent gained or lost I'm talking about having a team very close to the finish line and having a star that's showing you that he needs help Having a top ten it there I go with the top ten ish player begging for you to trade for him And you're playing it too cool planning too cool. That would be a bad offseason. That's how I feel now again Maybe the trailblazers desperately did not want to talk to him based on just just having Not envy or towards the Miami heat But just hating the fact that he was Damian Lillard was so adamant about going to the heat Maybe they're like man, we don't even want to give you that opportunity We don't like Tyler heroes much as some other teams or we don't like the two draft picks that you're given because so I'm not saying That the Miami heat didn't try but based on some of the reports It felt like they were playing it too cool and maybe those reports aren't true If they were playing it too cool, this is a huge error, but there's a world where they couldn't do anything The trailblazers may have value drew holiday and Deandra Aiden way more than those two first one You know what they did 100% the other trade is better The other trade is better because you can flip drew for more and more and more having these two Quality players one of them an all-star and exchange or what I rather have Tyler hero Who's a 20 point per game scoring really solid and two first-round picks from a team that I don't question the Miami heat's future They've been consistently good for 20 years now I don't those draft picks don't really mean much for them, but the bucks if you honest leaves then it's worth more So I'm just saying if they were playing it too cool for school. This is a nail But even if they weren't This for the Eastern Conference alone the teams that are towards the top and with the Milwaukee bottom on the the Boston Celtics the Miami heats Look at this train like man. He's got a little bit And I'm looking at the spaces. I'm looking at the spaces on Twitter and They're having a blazer's therapy session space. I Kind of want to tune in Hold on hold on hold on. Can I do this on the fly? I'm gonna try I'm gonna try to listen to what they're saying and and just for a second shout out to the blazer's community I'm just very curious of what they believe is going on how they feel about things with all of this because again They just traded one of the best players in their franchise history And got back what they got back and I can see people really hating this idea. All right start listening What if they just are screaming? Let's see we talk about he went to Weber State He's been a Portland for 11 years. He doesn't need okay that side of bad idea. I think it was more Portland like I said, I'm gonna listen to this off cam actually I don't I just don't know I just don't know bad words things can happen things can happen. All right Thank you so much. Let me know what you think about the trade. I will again through the wire podcast Can he beat some podcasts dropping very soon with more and more thoughts about all of this? Love y'all. See you soon. Peace Peace out peace out peace