Tim Legler AGREES with Stephen A.‘s take on Damian Lillard being unhappy with Bucks | First Take 

I think the main reason Dames unhappy is because of the nasty divorce him and his wife went through

I usually would say that this would be excuses in most situations, but Divorce and being away from your kids could take a toll on anyone. I think that is hugely affecting Dame. Imagine being in a house with your wife and kids every day for 10 years plus, and one day everything just changes. Hopefully he finds peace.

Dame and his cousin already called cap on what stephen a saying. People in his circle aren't talking to stephen A. I promise you.

If the bucks still have Jrue Holiday and Adrian Griffin, they wouldn't be in the position they are right now.

This segment isn't making sense... They bring up Dame's divorce, not being able to see his kids, etc. and use it to argue that he should've gone to Miami (more like that's what THEY wanted). But no time is spent on how Miami would've solved any of those issues.

Dame a volume shooter.. he was a great player on a bad team for years.. efficiency is the key 🔐

Truth is they (Milwaukee) screwed up by taking Jrue Holiday for granted 💯💯💯

Dame isn’t happy because he’s not allowed to see his kids why aren’t people talking about this

"It's definitely lonely because I'm such a family guy. My life is my family. After games, I would come out and my whole family would be back there. My kids coming out of the playroom. My mom, my brother, my cousins lived there, you know what I mean? My best friends live in Portland. So I would come out, we would go to dinner. They might come to my house. After practice, I might go to my mom's house and just chill. That's how my life was. So, I mean, I'm fine because I'm grown. But it's definitely lonely. I'm filled up by those people." -Dame Lillard back in February. If he went to Miami, how would this change all his family and friends living in Portland? Was there some agreement they would all move out there if he were traded there? We don't know that and everything is speculation but in the same interview he acknowledged he made a big boy decision to leave his home and go compete. Yeah, the nightlife is better in Miami but is he really the guy who wants to go out to clubs every night and party with people in their 20s anymore? Again, can't be answered but to have Milwaukee trade Dame for peanuts after the season, if the Bucks, fail is ridiculous.

This is wild. Talking about trading Dame and the playoffs haven’t even started. ESPN really hates the smaller markets

Adrian Griffin has to be laughing at the bucks somewhere 😂

Makes sense. So when my supervisor says WHY HAVENT YOU BEEN PREFORMING CORRECTLY. ima say I HAVE MY BEST DAYS WHEN MY FAMILY COMES TO MY WORK!!! see how long they keep me at burger King

I dont get it though...his kids arent in Miami either right?

“His kids were in town” made me tear up a lil bit

Dame needs to grow a pair. He went to a championship contending team. Dudes just getting exposed as a stat padder in a terrible Blazers team.

Gotta feel for dame 😢

When this trade happened, I thought it was a bad decision. Trading Jrue Holliday for Lillard was not a smart move. Lillard never played any defense while in Portland. Jrue has multiple skill sets. Damion wasn’t lonely when the dollars were offered.

I understand dame being lonely and what he’s going through. But to make it a reason to want to go to another team imo is just not professional. Going to another team or city isn’t going to change personal issues. Don’t make a good organization suffer over that

All I get from Dame Lillard situation is we make excuses for the people we like! Nothing more nothing less any other athlete wouldn’t get this pass 💯

Grass aint always greener

Dame not looking like a 75 best player ever I know that

So he's the only athlete to ever go through a divorce

We're all human, imagine if everyone brought home life problems to work....

Dame should’ve never been on this team to begin with. They should’ve kept Holiday.

Trade him then. If his priority is lifestyle and not winning trade him. I am not even a Bucks fan, I am a Spurs fan. But if he cannot appriciate the opportunity to win a ring and maybe Finals MVP, then trade him.

This is a professional league. He gets paid enough to be rich for multiple generations. He makes more in one game than most people make in a year. Why are we worrying about the unhappiness of man getting paid $44 million to do literally one of the most fun jobs on the planet. Everyone has a personal life. Everyone goes through struggle. Channel it into basketball Damian Lillard. No excuses I'm sorry.

Grew up in the bay, played on the west coast for 10 + years then move to an icebox … seasonal depression is a real thing

Yall media pundits trip me out, for years y'all stayed in Lillards ear telling him it'll be better for his legacy if he left Portland and now that he listened to ya'll and did it you're trying to figure why he might not be happy, its because he listened to ya'll.

Why is Dame getting a pass ? I think he needs to slender down a bit. The difference between Dame and Steph is that Steph is just as great off the ball as he is with the ball. Sometimes you have to sacrifice . Maybe Dame should run off more ball screens to get easier shots. Double screens , back doors.

Dame should've never played nice with the NBA as far as trades go now they all feel they control him. Should've looked at how Harden moved

How can you make presumptions on a person like this? ESPN is crazy with all of the fairy tales they try and spin.

Here we go with ESPN, trying to push all the same players to the same five teams. The NBA is not trying to be like major league baseball.

Dame got married and 2 weeks later he was getting a divorce, that chick said she's going to secure her future for the next 18yrs..

Grass isnt always greener fellas

Being a life long Blazers fan and we love Dame here amd his family and friends were at 90% of home games. We love ya Dame!!

Dame has personal issues going on. He'd be in the same place mentally no matter where he was. South Beach isn't a psychiatrist.

Dame was a bad sign from the start for Milwaukee. He was just chasing dollars, not in it to be a championship winner. Don’t use any personal excuses, he’s a pro.

So true you got to be emotionally invested to make it though struggles in life period no matter who you are

Dame isnt good enough to be the best player on a championship team, and he isn't wise enough to be the second best player on a championship team.

Did Kawhi not win a title when he wanted out of Toronto?

Rich people get all type of excuses and get paid millions

Naw. It takes more than a half of year to build chemistry. Before the 2010’s teams had years to build chemistry and multiple seasons together

Great take yall 💪🏾

Yall makin excuses for him instead of holding him accountable

Lots of players and people have personal situations. Take the Pacers to win the series.

Tim and Stephen A was not gonna bring up that divorce till Shannon did 😂 they was both like oh he went there

Y'all told him to leave Portland now what? Trying to Russell Westbrook him already?

Dame is over-rated. He's good but.....

Kawhi did it in Toronto

Everyone pushed him to leave Portland when he told y'all he was happy. Finally he listens to the media and finds that he was right all along, he was happy playing in Portland, now hes on a contender and he is miserable.

Him being up happy has nothin to do with basketball

If his checks clear, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT! STOP IT, his kids won’t be in Mia either

People gotta stop with this "He isn't happy in Milwaukee" narrative. He's always had a nonchalant lowkey persona about himself, look at when he hit the game winner on OKC, he didn't smile or celebrate with happiness like his teammates did. Dame was never a jolly, always laughing & smiling type of guy. He's said so many times in the past that if he could play with any current player, it would be Giannis. And he's said in interviews that when all this was going down, & Milwaukee popped into the picture, his agent asked him "What about Milwaukee?" And Dame okay'd it, he said he was interested in that. ESPN has always made up these narratives whenever Milwaukee has a superstar. They been trying to get Giannis out of Milwaukee since 2016, I guess they didn't learn when Giannis made Malika Andrews look dumb on TV. Lmao

i get chills thinking about jimmy butler and dame playing together that would be a wrap for the nba. back to back champs 100%

He's unhappy because he made a move to Milwaukee to win and they won't even make it out the first round. You got your Big 3 but the rest of the team is Suspect. He's not living up to expectations is why he's unhappy. Plenty of players done got divorced and it not affected their career.

Maybe Dame isn’t as good as we thought? He was in Portland, a place we don’t care about doing whatever he wants. Now he’s on a team with expectations and he’s failing?

I always say people are stat whòrès and star whòrès today so if you get big PPG and play no defense everybody loves you but if youre defense and team first you have no value. Bucks deserve this for what they did to Jrue

I know he spoke about his divorce publicly...but should shows like this still speaks on it?

People called it a hot take for years.. but I have always said Dame is not a winning player. When he went to the Bucks I said, “that won’t change.” So now it’s all Doc Rivers fault that this aging roster that lost ALL of its defensive identity when Holiday left. On top of gaining a defensive liability at the pg position. Why is this so hard to understand. The Bucks fall is not rocket science. We just have people who see Dame as a winning player.

Miami had a chance to offer a package last year and they didn't want him bad enough. Miami doesn't have anything to offer different from last year. What does him being lonely and divorced have to do with specifically moving to Miami?

Dame finding out he's not the biggest fish in the pond anymore,as bad as Portland was as a franchise he loved being there city wise.

I went though a divorce myself over the last year & was EXTREMELY depressed, more so for my kids sake on top of losing my home & having to sleep out of my car for a period of time. Luckily I stayed positive & worked to get myself back in a stable position. Now if I had to move to a completely different State on top of that meanwhile my kids are elsewhere, I really don’t know what I would have done. Therefore I completely understand what he’s going through & it can cause your productivity to drop off

Me being a boston fan and loving doc, ITS DEF DOC!

Milwaukee was second on dame wish list after Miami

He doesn't play D. Get him out of here

Everyone would rather be on South Beach than in Milwaukee especially during the winter times

Thanks Tim... u can take his words to life... About being invested in the present moment and 🥅

Great take Unc

I can’t even make it halfway through this video both Damian Lillard, Shannon, and Stephen, a are all pathetic for this, and even spending time on national airways, talking about a guy making generational wealth, unhappy because of his lifestyle

If everyone of SAS opinions became reality, there'd be 50 guys on the Lakers and another 50 on the Heat.

South Beach is so beautiful I feel like I'm in a different country when Im there lol

3 40 pts games, 8 of the 30 pts his kids were in town lol. Where’s the rest of your argument. How many 30 pts games did he have this season.

I dont think this is about Milwaukee or basketball

Isaiah Thomas dropped 51 points in the playoffs after finding out his sister died and theyre giving this conrball the excuse of "he misses his kids" hes going through a divorce" never in my life have i seen espn bring of the stats of a player when their kids are in town lmao

Unc kept it 💯 I’m going through it to with my girl n kids

He is lonely because he is such a family man. But if he is in Miami he is all good and can forget the family. LOL. These talking heads are simply hilarious. Dame is doing exactly what he did in Portland. Losing.

What about when Kobe wanted to leave LA and he was able to mentally reinvest and win a ring again 🙏🏻🏆

Bucks need to trade Doc Rivers lol

Milwaukee Could Be A Lonely Place Especially Through The Winter.

I didn’t even know that till unc said something

boi should stop crying if he wanted to go to Miami he should have advised Riley to make a real offer

Whatever excuse y'all want to make doesn't matter. Dame has played like absolutely BUNS in MIL and exposed even more just how pathetic he is defensively. He hasn't even been that great on offense. If his personal life is the issue, then take time away from the game to get your mind right.

They just want Lillard in a big market

Yeah I’ve been saying this…he just doesn’t seem like his self…

Respectfully, Dame YOU made you're bed.

honesty scratched my head when he went to the bucks in the first place because hes not that much of an upgrade from Holiday

“I couldnt hit 3s and dish the ball as nice all season, something I’ve done for many years, because my kids werent in the arena or in my apartment.” But if i move to miami, things may be different. The super max? Don’t worry about that.

Why do people always make excuses for this man

Being around some Latinas in Miami would've made him feel better about his pending divorce and missing his kids.

It was never in his heart to leave Portland 4real

dame owes his teammates an apology i’d give him another year in milwaukee

He shouldn’t have signed that extension with Portland and gone wherever he wanted to go. He got greedy and went for the money. At that point he lost control of where he would play

He needs some GloRilla in his life.

Makes more sense now why Dame wanted to be in Miami around all the women there. After going through a divorce and custody situation it would’ve helped.

If Milwaukee not taking Herro , Robinson and multiple firsts We good. We not giving up Jaime and Jovic for a guy all of a sudden everyone saying washed up but as soon as Miami wants him we got to give up the world for a 34 year old one way star. 🤷

Obtaining Dame was worth the gamble imo. Time for the Bucks to restructure once again. Better to be vigilant,& miss than be stagnant for DECADES like my Bullets/ Wizards.

No don’t move him y’all need to say he’s a choker just like the rest of stars that didn’t get a ring stop saving this man dame smh

Man has no right to be upset.. he makes too much money to complain

Talking about Pat Riley? Bro who said Dame was up for grabs 😂😂😂 stop it with bs narratives

I'm 5 and 1/2 minutes and I haven't mentioned the Pacers once when we're about to go into Milwaukee and knock these guys out.