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Damian Lillard

Bobby Marks links Damian Lillard to San Antonio Spurs đź‘€ 'HE'S A WILD CARD' | SportsCenter

By Azeem TajPublished 3 years ago • 2 min read

Front office Insider Bobby marks joining us now walk us through a lot of the things that Daryl Mori is facing right now with this Sixers roster currently and the future of James Harden yeah it's a balancing act when you look at where Philadelphia is with their salary cap situation they're right at the salary cap without James Harden on the roster they would only have the 12.4 non-tax pyramid level exception if Hardin did not return now when we add Hardin back at that 47 million dollar number that goes in there now you're a luxury tax team now you don't have your five million dollar exception so I think The Balancing Act for me is can you get him to come back at that 35 to 36 million dollars as you said here's a player I took a discount last year to come back to help bring back PJ Tucker and Daniel house here and four four years 213. that's the most that Philadelphia can offer can we get a compromise in there somewhere here because if you lose Harden as I said you have that tax mid-level exception and this is what you're looking at Players like Max struce to fill in that you bring them back now you're in the luxury tax yeah and the big question too is that compromise two-year deal three-year deal or does he want that Max for a guy that's going to be turning 34 later on this summer another team let's go through it here and now they're relevant considering what they did last week and that is the Spurs Victor webinyama on the roster how do you make this team better because look at that number this is what stands out at 43 million dollars well they're going to get their need to get a point guard here and I think certainly when we scroll down here Trey Jones who started last year four to one assist ratio restricted free agent I think he is a priority for them right off the bat here he's still extension eligible up until June 30th the next is put some protection around Victor here jacquer poodle who they traded last year to Toronto we'll see if he goes back to the Raptors but him Brook Lopez Nicole bujvik Center certainly Jeremy Sohan can play center for them but that's what I'm looking at for him I'm gonna throw a hypothetical okay all right I love this what happens in a week from now if Portland doesn't upgrade their roster and Damian Lillard all of a sudden asks out would San Antonio dip their toes in the deep end and make a run at Damian Lillard they've got 12 first round picks as you can see outside of Victor they have a lot of oops sorry they have a lot of young players here going down they've got the money to do it what would littler's response to that because this is the team if Lillard ever became available I'm putting as the wild card and it's easy to forget they have a head coach there who has won five titles with pop in that experience if we could see something like that keep an eye I love those scenarios Bobby keep an eye on that major upgrade for San Antonio we can see in a week's time thank you for watching ESPN on YouTube for live streaming Sports and premium content subscribe to ESPN Plus

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