00:00I want to ask you, Lillard came there and then left, and he's going back to Rip City, and he also tore his Achilles, so it's going to be another year, but he's going to go back there where it all started and finish his career.
00:15What did the people think of that and him in Milwaukee?
00:20It was something that we knew would happen. We just weren't sure what. You thought, well, maybe if they keep Lillard by January, maybe he can come back and contribute for the second half of the season, but you also knew that there's the pressure on. Giannis wants to win and wants to win now, and there's a lot of rumors about Giannis, whether or not he will or doesn't want to leave.
00:40I was, look, I'll tell you this, between you and me, and I said this on my show numerous times, he's not going anywhere. He loves Milwaukee. This is the only American city that he's known as home.
00:52They take his mom shopping in Chicago. They cater to his family. They do anything and everything he wants. He's got it like a king here, and the whole city loves him, wherever he goes. I mean, they just love this guy, so he's not leaving Milwaukee, so they need to figure out a way to bring players in, and the only way they could do that was to make the Lillard move.
01:09So, you know, to put Lillard for $25 million for the next five years, they had to make a move, and I give John Horse credit. They've said all the time, we're going to continue to get better.
01:17We're going to continue to keep Giannis, and here's the other thing. They're building a hotel and a big entertainment complex next to the Fiserv Forum.
01:23If Giannis would leave and they go back to being nobody for a long period of time, that Fiserv Forum and all of that stuff becomes a paperweight, man. There's no way they're letting Giannis leave Milwaukee.
