The Latest on Damian Lillard Trade Talks | LIVE at 9 am | The Dan LeBatard Show w/ Stugotz

We're not keeping our third eye open, but we ARE keeping one eye open on the reporting surrounding a potential Damian Lillard trade to Miami. Why is there such a difference between Woj's reporting and everyone else's? The crew analyzes what the best return would be for a small-market team like Portland if they were to trade Dame. Should they try to get the best players back or load up on future assets? Plus, Adam Wainwright makes us sad and Mike Ryan accuses the Braves of cheating.
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[00:00-4:40] - Wait Screen
[4:41-33:39] - Damian Lillard Heat Trade Talks
[33:40-37:53] - Adam Wainwright’s Sad Outing
[37:54-39:20] - Johnny Cueto’s 1 Marlins Inning
[39:21-47:41] - Marlins Talk & Are the Braves Cheating?
[47:42-1:00:30] - How is Dillon Brooks getting $80 million
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[@beachbenny]

Kudos to Samson, he is making adjustments when in a collective - quicker takes, pithy comments and holding back. He is still at his best direct to audience, one on one, but is learning to work in a group setting with so many opinions and personalities. He works quite well as the 3rd option in all honesty (like Bradley Beal in Phx now). Remember he came as the shot caller for so many years as an executive so it takes time to adapt to this type of setting. But he is improving which means he takes constructive criticism and continually works on getting better - even in his 50's.

[@Master_Bait]

I agree. The whole point of LeBatard and FRIENDS is getting opinions from different people and make great content as a collective. Love it. Good comment good sir.

[@trekker1303]

This take is spot on and so well delivered. Been wanting to say something like this for a while but could not have come anywhere close to this. Well done!

[@nailsi-am5324]

This has a KD feel to it. Welcome David 😀

[@IrishWeegee]

Welcome back Dan, Samson and Amin in studio 4:40 Tyler Herro may want out of the Heat, Damian Lillard still up in the air 19:37 Is Dame hurting Portland by demanding Miami if traded 33:38 Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright aging out 39:08 Braves accused of cheating 47:38 Rockets give Dillon Brooks 4 year, $80m deal to hit Salary Floor requirement 55:10 Comparing contracts between NBA and NFL, strength of players union

[@dylanjenkins4368]

Thank you for your service as always 🫡

[@xCliipse]

*No Hat Dan

[@taylucas3939]

Thanks for this

[@andrewmoore1770]

You make so many lives easier. Lebatard show should give you a cut for your service

[@MajinTobias]

TYFYS 🫡

[@JustMeELC]

If you can't provide LOUDER AUDIO WITHOUT FLUCTUATING LEVELS I won't be able to watch anymore 😕 You've been aware of these issues more than long enough to make the simple fix & it is simply too frustrating to continue to deal with this for much longer ugh

[@macdaddy2344]

Oh shux u can't watch the world will end as we know it 😂😅😮

[@JustMeELC]

@@macdaddy2344 Ah shucks you're showing the world you're an a-hole with nothing better to do in your life then broadcast it publicly 🙄 Sad really lol. Oh & Newsflash... Content creators rely on feedback to keep &/or grow their income Sunshine ;o)

[@joshuagoslee]

It really is pretty embarrassing

[@sixthorder]

Gabe Vincent averaged 9 points and shot 40%. Dillon averaged 14 on 39% and made 2nd team all defense.

[@votdfak]

Exactly. This dude in Pantera shirt is a bum, like Gabe Vincent.

[@tripleh8472]

Billy, Roy, Chris, Mike, Greg, Ron, Dan and Stu. 2015-2018 best years. Make the show great again.

[@kevinhopper3574]

Man... Imagine being a Cardinal fan and watching Wain-o unravel this entire year... ON TOP of the terrible underperformance of the rest of the pitching, the defense, etc. Tough to see him go out like this.

[@deoncarroll9542]

Why are they not live for the regular show? I’m not seeing it anywhere

[@macdaddy2344]

😂😢😅

[@CMRE24]

MFs hating on Brooks like he is trash.. he is a solid player. And please stop bringing up how players today make more than greats 30 years ago.. it's called progress. Then NBA has 15 players and NFL have 53 plus practice players... stop comparing them.

[@Yeopardy]

Rare no hat Dan sighting. Kinda weird.

[@nigelcasper6032]

love the Pantera shirt mike! way to be a cowboy from hell

[@Chozzeone060907]

Mike is dead wrong about Brook's contract. Sure, the years are very high. They probably should have paid him a little more per year to get a 2 or 3-year deal but with the new TV deal coming which some places have speculated could be two times or three times with the NBA is getting. Now the salary cap is going to shoot up which means his 20 million a year is probably more like 15 million a year in today's salary cap. Also, I don't think the rockets are going to be competing the first 2 years of his contract anyway, so when they start competing, which would they hope to do in year three or four of his contract? He'll have a very appealing contract that can be traded

[@justinbeaver2981]

The show is better with Mike in the producer seat

[@CorndogSandwich]

Wholeheartedly agree, especially when he doesn't wear sunglasses. The sunnies turn the sass up.

[@ohenesarkodie4663]

😢if 😢😢😅😅😢

[@michaeldemarco2415]

Nobody else is smart enough plus they never make the effort.

[@limitlesspursuit]

Duh

[@limitlesspursuit]

No one else has the experience.

[@twobarsfourstars]

Brooks is a regular all nba defender at a primary position of need who is young and matches the Rockets timeline. He was brought in to be Udoka’s Draymond, and to counteract the last few years of negative development in the locker room and business. And as Amin said, if you’re not somewhere that has natural business advantages you pay more to get people to work for you. With the cap going up it’s not going to look bad, and if they get out of the rut and save the high draft picks they’ve made the last few years from not developing it’ll be heralded as culture changing

[@mordecaidrake]

He has one second team selection..so he isn't a regular anything....and it was as a guard... so he isn't even that close to dray... ....wtf are you babbling about?

[@twobarsfourstars]

@@mordecaidrake he’s a wing, 27, and never played next to three of the best shooters of all time so yeah no he’s not Dray, but he’s clearly similar archetype wise which is what I meant and stand by. They’re similar players. Talking about the credentials is missing the point, Dray is also getting paid a lot more and is a lot more valuable. Doesn’t change what I said.

[@twobarsfourstars]

@@mordecaidrake fair point on not regular all nba but the rest of it is whiny bs 🥱

[@mordecaidrake]

@twobarsfourstars 😄 🤣 he says with no sense of irony as he double dips to try to make any kind of point 🙄 ....i didn't change anything....he is a guard... case closed, bozo....stop trying to clarify and twist it so make any kind of sense... this entire statement is hilariously rediculous 😄 🤣

[@ethans8719]

Complaining about other media carrying water for teams while simultaneously carrying water for their team is still so rich

[@REDSavage369]

Did David Samson really say Portland rather keep Dame? The whole narrative has been that they don’t want Tyler Herro back because he’s a guard and it doesn’t mesh with what they have. Well Dame is set to be 33 and also happens to play PG the position you just spent 3rd pick on another generational talent you were lucky to land in the draft. It makes no sense for Portland to want Dame when all the moves they’ve made have said the complete opposite.

[@TheKingofsoccor]

Facts. Portland keeping the 3rd pock was the last straw

[@FBaned]

Yes he did & also said they weren’t rebuilding.. He sound like a idiot & that probably the reason he sitting there & isn’t a executive/president anymore

[@safik20001]

I don't see the contradiction in what Woj and others at ESPN and Shams and others outside ESPN are saying. Portland has no use for Tyler Herro because of some combination of his contract plus already having Simons, Sharpe and Scoot and don't seem to have much interest in a pure cap relief package centered around Lowry. What this means is that Miami is either going to involve another team(s) to make it work or someone else will swoop in and take Lillard and believe that he wouldn't actually sit out. I don't see how those two things are in contradiction.

[@macdaddy2344]

Woj is a gas bagger

[@pegasusj4655]

It’s doesn’t it’s just the heat side of the conversation your hearing

[@knowledgeseeker1528]

Why would another team offer anymore than mia knowing they're getting a player that doesn't want to play for them?

[@safik20001]

@@knowledgeseeker1528 Because they think Dame is bluffing. If Philly or Boston traded for him I think they'd believe that he'd come around on playing for them

[@knowledgeseeker1528]

@@safik20001 Even if they do they're not going to give Portland the assets they want just to take that risk. It will be similar to what mia is offering or less.

[@nailsi-am5324]

This was some top notch SPORTS! I live in the SUEY but this is super awesome.

[@GameBlouses84]

45:03 careful Dan

[@therockneverstops8261]

Portland better recognize that Scoot Henderson is watching how they treat Dame in this moment and if they aren’t competing he may not give them that third contract and trust they’ll do right by him either.

[@michaelyakubek6997]

Portland has treated just fine, it's Dame that's making this a lot harder for everybody by only wanting to go Miami, when it's not even up to him and he's has no leverage.....I am a huge lilliard and Blazers fan, but quite frankly Damian needs to realize that he made his bed by signing a long term contract with Portalnd and he can't dictate where they send him now....

[@ethans8719]

Yes to keep scoot they have to show him they will trade him wherever he wants whenever he wants for pennies on the dollar. Makes sense

[@knowledgeseeker1528]

​@@michaelyakubek6997I'm pretty sure he does have leverage and he already did. There's nothing wrong with him only wanting one team. If Blazers were honoring his request from the beginning then Dame wouldn't have had to sabotage his trade value. Nobody broke any rules. They're both just playing the game to get what they want. FO's do it all the time. Can't get mad when a player does it.

[@jmcook96]

Patrick Roy begs to differ

[@kowaikokoro]

Waiting for an better offer means forcing an top 75 all time 33 year old player to be among 19 year olds figuring out the game... might not be smart as that can be considered damaging trade value

[@andyreed498]

David with the haymaker at the end.... "so the contract says he has to play? Seriously... He has to play???"

[@lowkeypopi]

Why is mike comparing donte deal to gabe vincent? knicks have no need for a fringe starting pg why would he be valuable to them? with fournier getting moved soon they def need wing perimeter shooting

[@driverjay8613]

You guys have got to do better, the loyalty thing is an espn narrative, carried for the owners. Dam played into it, and now he's realizing he played himself. And he wasn't with the Blazers cause he was all about loyalty to the franchise, he stayed there cause he is o e of those celebrities who is emotionally caught up with the communities and the people he works for and with. Lillard is not the first, and won't be the last.

[@Michael_B82]

How do the Braves cheat? They are just good

[@lilv3966]

Missed you guys. I was the last fan remaining listening to espn radio…..

[@lilv3966]

Funny to me that this show now talks more sports than espn radio. Literally the same segment every hour of every show over there.

[@TheKingofsoccor]

Dame has the leverage

[@MrGdarrow]

Samson is the GOAT, for real. This trio will bring back this show for me.

[@ajt2329]

Mike and all the people hating on the Dillion Brooks deal are too stuck on the $80 million figure. Think of it in relation to the full cap and how the cap will increase in the next several years. It won't be too long before the full mid level exception is $20 million. Listen to what Amin said....average salary in the NBA is ~$12 million.

[@metal--babble346]

Blazers suck, Lillard was practically forced to ask for a trade.

[@Paultheguitarist]

Heat in 6!

[@MajinTobias]

I've definitely got Damian Lillard fatigue, and he's by far my favorite current player. Make a trade already 😢

[@marlonconner4726]

Dillon is a better player than gabe, plays defense better was all team defense, gabe had a good playoff run and was trash in the finals, and maybe gabe don’t have a good agent like brooks 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@marlonconner4726]

Gabe stats 9.4 2.1 2.5 Dillon stats 14.3 3.3 2.6 all defensive team, recently bias because gabe help take them to the finals but max Strus 63 million after that final performance

[@markarren7480]

Portland doesn't want the poo-poo platter that Miami is offering.

[@TheKingofsoccor]

Hero isnt bad. And they will get 3 or more 1st round picks lol. They cant get a big time free agent to go there so they definitely not getting a star. They getting maxey or hero and picks

[@knowledgeseeker1528]

Ok where is the better offer and why haven't they taken it?

[@Master_Bait]

Nicholas Batum, Tobias Harris, DeAndre Jordan, Ty Johnson, Joe Smith, many more scooby doo RHEW? moves but a few off the top of the head.

[@LukeySutton]

Love this show, I get the show, loved it and listened to it for years. David Samson is just not right for this show. If anything agrees with him, it’s right. If anything isn’t, they’re lying and wrong and smoke screening. Then his position on the owners and not caring about anything regarding humanity. Mike Schur owned him.

[@macdaddy2344]

😂😢😅

[@miafire6628]

So let me get the straight. You would give up multiple assets for a player that doesn't want to play For You.. Starting to make more sense What happened with the marlins.

[@pegasusj4655]

Depends on your situation? Whts he going to do sit out and missing out on 40+ mil

[@knowledgeseeker1528]

​@@pegasusj4655He can do much worse than that.

[@driverjay8613]

Brooks is troubled, he needs to see a sports psychologist. His O' will probably get better if that happens.

[@bigDunch]

So I guess Stugots is just keeping his name and face attached to the show in hopes that the audience doesn't notice that he's not a part of the show anymore..... I see you Stu probably once a week now ( if that) and he hardly even talks when he's there.. it's kind of saddening because I'm almost convinced that him and Dan must have some type of inside turmoil..,.. I miss the old show where Stugots was a part of it

[@TidySage]

When has the Miami heat ever done what people are expecting Portland to do? Miami has never gotten "bad" on purpose to get draft picks

[@user-ti2me2br8g]

I'll guarantee you the Rockets had a conversation about the Ts and mouthing off to superior players with Brooks. Tone it down, but teach some toughness to our young players. Never can accuse Brooks of not playing hard.

[@theonlydubbace8279]

Lebron only played 7 years in Cleveland

[@dannyvandan_]

Feels bad for Wainwright…set to make 17.5 million this year 🤔

[@13orangeroo]

Hero is a great young talent averaging 20 points a game, yet heat fans trying to trade him for dame.

[@keithedwards8365]

Herron is not better than Simons, Sharpe or Henderson

[@user-ti2me2br8g]

Sampson is in his lane with this role. I can tolerate him today. No mas hosting the show.

[@joshw0078]

Hero is bad contract bc heat was better without him and bc hr injury prone and had one highlight postseason just like Duncan Robinson who is not nearly as good as ppl say almost to hero extent

[@SSJ5John]

Portland is ALREADY BAD.

[@nathanwoodward3363]

Amin, Nascar and Cycling are worse at cheating.

[@mikeyfightz]

I'm sorry as a blazers fan we really want to send dame to Miami but if the package sucks we need a 3 team deal or were shipping him to Brooklyn where he will play for. i don't want anything Miami has to offer

[@knowledgeseeker1528]

Why would brooklyn make a better offer than mia for a player that doesn't want to be there? Do you really think they're going to give you all their good young players and 3-4 1sts for a guy they might have to trade by next year?

[@kevjd24]

Controversial take. 4th of July…Terrible holiday. All we do is set off huge explosions all day that scare my dog, babies, and Veterans with PTSD.

[@LaCheeserie]

I like fireworks from a distance, but as a holiday, I accept the day off and that’s it.

[@stran-air-jordan]

Fireworks are definitely overrated. They were probably entertaining before we had actual media and people thought fireworks were some kind of sorcery.

[@jmcook96]

not controversial at all

[@IMRavnos]

StuGotz needs to be let go. Dude never wants to show up and when he does he is busy online, not listening and then just fakes it. I like him, but he checked out when they left ESPN big time. His goal was always to get a job hosting an ESPN show on TV, that goal is now dead and so is his desire to be there.

[@frankcostanza8479]

Can this show handle dame getting traded to the sixers?

[@thespaceram2879]

He is not going to the sixers. He is staying in Portland.

[@reesyroc1369]

Alot of Mike is great for the show, he keeps the humour/flow going. But too much Mike, is a train wreck of noise.

[@MrUnik88]

I just want to know who heard Samson talk and said his voice is good for radio 😂😂😂😂😂 smart man tho. Cruel and evil and probably a coward amongst real alpha men but smart and tho I don't always agree with him he's necessary for a show like this. Dan is my guy tho.

[@LaCheeserie]

Dan’s management mentality is why he knew he needed Skip and Bimal, and co. Samson is right, if player is under contract, team should not feel pressure. I hate them, but see the Spurs (EPL), they are not seeking Kane for less than a king’s ransom. Portland should get whatever they want for Dame. Most cannot be like Pep and let players go as soon as they do not want to stay.

[@lowkeypopi]

This show really is first take now lmao... the irony

[@DCZero7]

Cry more. You’re not getting Dame for a smile and a handshake. It will take half the Heat’s team to get Dame and the Heat won’t be a contender anymore

[@knowledgeseeker1528]

We could give you our whole team for Dame and y'all would still find a way to miss the playoffs.

[@17thNO]

Lillard will be in Miami. The NBA, the media and the fans want it. They will just have to give up a lot of those "undrafted players" that were hyped up all playoffs. All that was advertisement of those players for a trade for the next team's "superstar". They are not "important" or "relevant", so they can play in Portland and disappear and nobody will even notice. But the "superstar" will get what he wants and they can put the Heat on every national game and only if they get Nurkic with Dame the Heat can possibly win the championship. Nurkic really could help (not stop) Jokic. Bam can't do it.

[@thespaceram2879]

The Heat won't give up so much for Lillard. They aren't stupid. The Heat just need a center that can score, rebound and play defense in free agency. The Heat don't even need Lillard and his massive contract.

[@travissmith6380]

Im tired of Hearing Dame was "LOYAL" to Portland....As if they didnt pay him MAX deal after MAX deal. People acting like he was taking team friendly discounts Like Klay or Draymond did in the past. Dame got EVERY DOLLAR he could

[@knowledgeseeker1528]

Every other team in the league gives him that contract. That wasn't for loyalty.

[@SPShawny]

Why is Samson here?

[@macdaddy2344]

He's an employee

[@sohumparanjpe2639]

Dude mike, if you ask a question let the other talk? Cutting off people all the time is nonsensical. Great stuff otherwise

[@macdaddy2344]

He doesn't really want to know their response that's why

[@zoidberg3009]

shocked smetty is here, she hasnt been on vacation in over 2 weeks

[@macdaddy2344]

And contributed as much as if she were on vacay

[@tripleh8472]

A.k.a Useless Jess

[@brnenan]

Booooo Sampson

[@theofficialhumpbowl8022]

F samson

[@slappydoodle]

Damn man look at these numbers now that the show is coming to us earlier Huh almost as if I said this very thing like yr an 1/2 ago. There timing was awful b4 trying to go up against mcafee Well done boys n girls 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@macdaddy2344]

😂😢😅 waste of time watching these guys in the lul of sports on right now 🥱 😴

[@stephenwhite7283]

Yo this was worst than espn. Y’all had 4-5 breaks. By the time I got invested in to the conversation, it was going to a break

[@macdaddy2344]

6 breaks per hour after starting 5 Mims after episode started airing lol

[@travissmith6380]

Why should Portland except Miami's trash leftovers? Mike thinks WAY more of Hero then the rest of the NBA I think

[@thespaceram2879]

The Heat don't even need Lillard at all. They need one good center in free agency that can score, rebound and play defense. The defending 2023 Eastern conference champions Heat will have a better record than Portland's garbage record anyhow.

[@travissmith6380]

@thespaceram2879 good luck finding that center you speak of. Plumlee?? lol

[@thespaceram2879]

@@travissmith6380 The Heat are better than your team. You shouldn't even be laughing.

[@travissmith6380]

@@thespaceram2879 you don't even know my team, only laughing because you make it sound like those centers are a dime a dozen. who do you have in mind that fits that description

[@thespaceram2879]

@@travissmith6380 The right one that comes along or any of the ones the Heat already have and move Bam to power forward. Which would certainly help. You are chicken trolling yellow that you won't tell me your team. I bet they didn't even make it to the Finals. Lmao.

[@BlessedAreTheCheesemakers]

Still foisting Samson on everyone I see. Did everyone enjoy him gleefully laughing about players being released? Was it good content? Turd in the punchbowl every second he has a microphone.

[@jeremyvisser3877]

It's great content

[@BlessedAreTheCheesemakers]

@@jeremyvisser3877 there's no accounting for taste, I guess

[@TFP360]

Dudes a slimeball

[@BlessedAreTheCheesemakers]

@@TFP360 literally hate the sound of his voice

[@macdaddy2344]

Nobody held a gun to your head to watch you knew he was in the second they showed up on camera

[@theofficialhumpbowl8022]

I miss the show, I get the show. I can't stand samson and i dont get the show when hes on it.

[@stephenwhite7283]

The more you all make this in yo ESPN radio, the harder it’s becoming to listen. It’s like y’all are auditioning to go back smh. Please make the show great again

[@LaQuemini]

Samson is so unlikeable. I despise him after the Bomani tweet.

[@macdaddy2344]

Lol he's definitely unique not necessarily in a good way either

[@twobarsfourstars]

Great call Amin, cheating is cooked into baseball so much it’s an accepted part of the game. Very American 🫡🇺🇸