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Damian Lillard's wishlist for Trail Blazers in free agency | The Draymond Green Show

24 Feb 2022 · 2 min

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In this segment of The Draymond Green Show, Draymond Green asks Damian Lillard about the Portland Trail Blazers' free‑agency outlook and the team's path to a championship. Lillard explains that the Blazers have roughly $60 million in cap space and, with both players turning 32, they lack the luxury of a multi‑year rebuilding window. He highlights recent signings—ET, Mo, Chief, and Buck Myers—and notes the existing talent pool, including Ennis, Nas (pre‑injury), Nurk, Josh Hart, and Joe Ingles, which together create a roster the team has never had before. Lillard stresses that the key now is execution: leveraging the pieces they have, making the right moves quickly, and trusting that the organization can deliver a championship‑contending product in Portland.

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What's up everybody? It's Draymond Green. Make sure you subscribe to the Volumes YouTube channel below so you don't miss any more of this great content going forward. And so in making those moves, I think y'all will have somewhere around $60 million or something like that in cap space. Like you're turning 32 as I am turning 32 next month as well. The one thing you don't have on your side is time. Yeah. You don't have like, oh man, I can watch this play out for 4 years or 5 and grow with this. Like y'all have to go for it now. Do you feel confident in the team's plans and what they want to do moving forward that's going to help you get what I ultimately know you wanna get to, which is winning the championship in Portland?
Right. No, I think what we've done, bro, is put ourselves in a position we have not been in. I don't think the year when we signed ET, we signed ET, we signed Mo, we signed Chief. You know, we just signed a Buck Myers. We signed a bunch of people. And we haven't been in this position, you know, with talent on the roster already since I've been here. You know, you look at what Ennis doing and then you look at what Nas was doing before he got hurt. And then you add Nurk, like— Yeah. Josh Hart, Joe Ingles, like we got some pieces to the puzzle now that we just gotta use what we have available to add to that. And it's just a matter of us being able to execute that, bro. We in play to get something done. And I trust the fact that we gonna be able to execute it, you know? Yeah. We just gotta, you know, we just gotta see where that land. That's where we at now. We just gotta see where we land at the end of it, bro.