Lillard to Make $22.5M During Rehab, Gets to Choose Next Stop

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00:00Who's the big winner in all of this?

00:02Is it Milwaukee?

00:03It's certainly not Indiana.

00:04Is it Myles Turner for getting paid?

00:06Is it Giannis?

00:07It's Dame, who now makes $22.5 million this season

00:11to rehab his injured Achilles.

00:14And it was pretty clear he didn't love being in Milwaukee.

00:17His family did not live in Milwaukee with him

00:19throughout the NBA season.

00:20He might have left Milwaukee even before the move

00:24to acquire Myles Turner.

00:26He gets paid a ton of money to rehab.

00:29And once he clears waivers, the RS can basically pick

00:32at this stage of his career where he wants to go,

00:36whether that's this summer or he waits to see how 2025-26

00:40shakes out and finds his next destination

00:42for the following NBA season.

00:45Yeah, and by the way, there has to be a stipulation also.

00:47I'm pretty sure that he just can't go back to the Bucs

00:49after like a year or at the end of the year,

00:51if he looks, hey, you know, I'm ready to go.

00:53Let me come back for a vet minimum exception here

00:55where you can stretch it out, which Frizo's telling me,

00:58the producer's telling me, yes, we can,

01:00which that wouldn't make any sense.

01:01By the way, that would be ultra devious.

01:03He cannot.

01:04Okay, that's what I thought.

01:05Yeah, because otherwise then we'd have to put a CBA

01:07would just come to a crashing halt where everybody

01:09would do this and bring players back at a cheap discount

01:11spread out over a longer period of terms here.

01:14That can't happen.

01:15So we'll see what happens.

01:16But you're right, like Dame's going to be able to rehab.

01:18He'll be back in the NBA.

01:19Do we think he's going to be back to Dame time in the past?

01:22Probably not.

01:23But everything is according to a contract.

01:25If he can come back and help a team at $10 million a year

01:28as opposed to $50 million a year, as he says, you know what,

01:30let me go ring chase or say, hey, why not, man?

01:33Go for it, Dame.

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