![]() ‘I probably should do this or probably should do that.’ When my career is over, y’all are not about to be talking about me.” I don’t sit here and just think about, ‘I need to leave all the time.’ I’m not sitting there watching TV and hearing everything they gotta say. He’ll book a one-way, and we have real friendship. He’s single, and he’ll come stay for a few weeks. He works a job where he can work from home. “I have a life that’s stable and is not based upon who I am as an NBA player. My uncle calls me, and we talk on the phone all night about just regular stuff. ![]() Lillard then went on to explain that he’s just a regular person trying to enjoy his life. I think about it all the time that I don’t know if I can play a long, long time because I don’t enjoy what the NBA as a whole is becoming.” ![]() There are so many ways the league is different. I understand that we play to win championships and we all want to win a championship, but we can’t keep acting like nothing matters. Why the hell do I play? I don’t need to prove that to y’all. “Bro, I don’t need to prove to y’all that I wanna win a ring. “I don’t want to make it about my situation, but I was talking after a game a week ago and they were asking me, ‘Dame, to win a ring …’ We spend more time with each other than anybody. I want to know what it feels like to win. But I feel like I play for the love of the game. “The NBA I play in now is not the NBA I came into,” Lillard said to Redick. Specifically, Lillard was referencing “ring culture” and how many people think the only thing that matters in a player’s career is winning a championship. ![]() Lillard, who is in his 11th season, spoke about how the NBA has changed over the years, and not for the better, in his opinion. 1. You won’t often see an athlete open up in such an introspective and nuanced way like Blazers star Damian Lillard did with JJ Redick on the latest Old Man and the Three podcast. ![]()
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