This year's offseason, the Bucks used to cut Lillard and extended his contract to make room to sign Miles Turner.
Recently, famous speaker Skip updated his program "The Skip Bayless Show" and talked about his understanding of the Bucks' cuts Lillard.
He said: "I speculate that the Bucks management and coaching staff are not Lillard's biggest fans, otherwise they would have fought against the deal. But not, they paid a very high price. They sent Damien Lillard away for Miles Turner. Lillard tear his Achilles tendon. May God bless him and his recovery. He will almost certainly miss the entire next season. And he is about to be 35. So he won't play again until he was 36. This of course also affected the Bucks' decision. Maybe they just believed that Lillard, who has undergone Achilles tendon reconstruction surgery and is getting older, will never be worthy of the huge contract he has left."
"Listen, I've said it a lot before. I've never been Lillard's biggest fan. Although he's loved, and I think, often overprotected by many, many media outlets. He's always so accessible, so talkative, and so easy to deal with for the media."
"But as I've pointed out many times before, all of these 'Lillard moments' are a bit overrated. He did hit a few major buzzer-beating shots in the playoffs, especially in the Thunder. But remember that the Thunder was led by Russell Westbrook alone. That team would be a bad team without Westbrook (Russ) or bust. Lillard did surpass Westbrook in key ball performance, which I admit. But Lillard also had a lot of miserable outs in the playoffs, as I have described on TV many times before. So, in the end, at least I am not personally shocked that the Bucks basically replaced Lillard with Miles Turner at all costs. "
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