Free Dame!
If Dame Lillard scores 50 points during a 10:30PM TNT Doubleheader and no one is awake to see it, does it make a sound? They call him Logo Lillard, Dame Dolla and countless other nicknames but you know what I call him, Ghost! Do you even know where he went to college... Weber State, which is in Utah says Wikipedia, but you can’t fool me Dame! I too, have lied on a resume before, I know that’s not a real school. Adidas has given him a signature shoe, that other than that one BAPE collab, we have never heard of. Don't get me wrong it's not his fault, he plays in a small market on the west coast and as we at Technically Sports have expressed before, we are not staying up! Lillard, currently on a historic scoring run of over 6 games where he has averaged 48.8 points per game and shot 57% from 3 and not a soul has watched live. The score keeper could’ve been point shaving and no one would’ve been the wiser.
There are two types of Blazers fans, the ones that are born in Portland and the rest are liars. I am currently 27 years old and have never been to the Pacific Northwest so I can say that I’ve never met a Blazers fan in my life. Call it East Coast bias or whatever but nobody cares about whatever they have going on in Portland, even when their franchise player is putting up 50 burgers on a nightly basis. To be brutally honest you can tell me that Portland is not even a real team and all of their games are just a really high definition 2k game shown on TV and after a few beers you might actually convince me. Even Dame Lillard’s career defining moment, his dagger from 40 feet to knock the 2019 Thunder out of the playoffs, I caught live by fluke, I must’ve been flipping channels and found that the Blazers and Thunder were playing. It's not like anyone has ever called me like “hey you need to watch this Blazers game, Dame going crazy”.
All I’m saying is Free Dame Lillard from the cold Bermuda triangle that they call the Pacific Northwest please and thank you! As Kanye West famously stated “People never get the flowers while they could still smell em”. It is time to give Dame his flowers, he’s going to be 30 in July and we don’t know how many more prime years we’d get from him. For years when Dame would complain about being snubbed from an All Star game I would just claim that he was crying until I looked at the stats and realized apart from a Championship Ring he has been arguably a better player than Kyrie Irving, who many would claim is the second best PG in the league behind Steph Curry. Here are some stats, Dame has 4 All NBA Team Selections to Kyrie’s 2, Dame has averaged more points, assists and rebounds both in the regular season and in the playoffs. Kyrie has cooler shoes though so Dame is better by just a hair. In all seriousness though, we all joke on Twitter that Dame might be Travis Best with a Soundcloud link or Stephon Marbury with a major shoe deal but Dame is really good, so next time you see the Blazers are playing on your TV guide, brew a cup of coffee and watch Dame try and get his sorry ass team into the playoffs. Better yet, go to your local Adidas outlet and find a pair of Dame whatever-their-called, they should be on sale.