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Jones & Keefe: Should the Celtics be in on Damian Lillard?
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7/9/2025
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What do you think Lillard's going to have left in the tank?
00:01
Because I get what Keefe is saying, where you do want to retool the team for 2027.
00:07
Like, I want them to compete in a wide-open East this year,
00:09
but I acknowledge they're not winning a championship.
00:11
Even competing in a wide-open East, a championship is not a realistic expectation.
00:16
It could be in 2027.
00:18
So I do get the interest level in Lillard.
00:21
That's assuming he's even the Lillard you got in Milwaukee,
00:23
never mind the Lillard you got in Portland.
00:25
He's older, he's on the wrong side of an Achilles.
00:27
What do you think they would actually get or whatever team signs him
00:30
will actually get when he's back on the floor?
00:33
I mean, that's the interesting part.
00:34
I mean, because a lot of his game, too, is finesse and it's acceleration
00:38
and all that stuff that you need your Achilles.
00:40
And threes, which would be a good thing for the Celtics.
00:43
But he turns 35 next week, assuming he misses all of next year.
00:46
He's going to be 36 when he hits the floor again.
00:48
And I think the financial aspect of it makes a lot more sense, right,
00:52
because he's got all this money still coming to him from Milwaukee
00:55
that he can take less to come to a team like Boston.
00:58
And I also think there just won't be as much stress on him.
01:00
Assuming the core stays intact, where you'll have Jason Tatum as your clear number one,
01:04
you'll have Jalen Brown, you'll have Derek White, and you'll have Peyton Pritchard,
01:07
you'll have all these scorers around you that he's not going to be asked to do
01:10
what he was asked to do in Portland or even in Milwaukee.
01:13
So I think there is – it makes sense for both sides to at least consider it,
01:18
especially if he wants to go out and actually try to have a chance to win something.
01:21
I think if there's going to be – if you're the Celtics, right,
01:24
I think a lot of teams are going to do this.
01:25
You're going to dip into the second apron, then you're going to dip back out,
01:28
and it's just kind of going to be like a back-and-forth type of thing.
01:30
That's the way the league is set up right now,
01:32
and I think it makes a lot of sense for him to at least consider it,
01:34
especially if he wants a chance to win.
01:36
And you've mentioned a couple times now.
01:37
The Eastern Conference is wide open.
01:39
Oh, yeah.
01:39
You get Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown back on the floor together,
01:41
and you've still got Derek White and those guys.
01:44
Like, this is a team that's going to be ready to compete again when Tatum's back.
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