00:00Should the Celtics be interested on Dame Lillard or interested in signing Dame Lillard if he's even open to potentially coming here?
00:08Because, again, the reporting is they're showing interest in him, not the other way around.
00:11Yeah, they should definitely be interested.
00:13You always kick the tires, even when he's coming off an Achilles injury.
00:16And I've been on the record that I don't love undersized guards and how they age, especially when they're on the Celtics.
00:23Just not a good track record.
00:25Yeah, true.
00:25Isaiah, Kemba.
00:27It's just it's tough.
00:28It's a tough grind.
00:29But if it's something where it's such a low pay that like the risk is so low, I don't you'd basically be taking a flyer on him.
00:38I don't know why you wouldn't.
00:39So here's what I wouldn't like about it.
00:41And I'm not saying I'd like kick and screw you get him on a veteran's minimum deal.
00:43And I bet he'll go for more.
00:44But but if you get him on like a minimal deal, I'm not going to kick and scream about it.
00:49But I don't like what it represents.
00:50It would represent we're more worried about two years down the line than this year.
00:55And we're more worried about Tatum in two years than trying to do anything this year.
00:59Isn't that already the reality?
01:01Well, probably.
01:01But I like to think they're going to at least try to give it a good, honest run this year and see what you can do with Jalen as a number one.
01:08And if they go below the luxury tax, forget aprons, if they dip below the luxury tax and they sign Damian Lillard just to rehab with Tatum and come back in two years, I just don't like what that represents.
01:21I don't like punting on a year when you have an all star in Jalen Brown, finals MVP, all NBA, you have an all NBA player.
01:30You have Derek White, who's been all defense and been on Team USA.
01:33You have two other guys who, according to the Ringer's top 100 rankings, are in the top 100.
01:38Count those for whatever they are in Simons and Pritchard.
01:41Like, I feel like you have enough talent to have a representative year next year and be in the mix in the Eastern Conference.
01:49And so I'd worry more about adding to this year's team than building two years from now.
01:54Yeah, I'd be pretty surprised if it happens.
01:56Again, you have to show interest.
01:57Yeah.
01:58I mean, this is a former all star.
02:00Again, he's got a terrible injury.
02:01He's in a situation where maybe you can get him for dirt cheap.
02:05And so you look at it, but he also doesn't solve the biggest problem, not to have a pun there, but the biggest problem on your roster still, which is who's going to be your starting center.
