Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard hopped on JJ Redick's podcast to discuss the current state of the NBA, which he isn't a fan of.
That's straight from the horse's mouth, by the way - Thesuperstar admitted that he is not a fan of how much the association has changed since his rookie year.
"When I came in the league, like Jason Kidd was starting for the Knicks and Grant Hill and Kurt Thomas and Kenyon Martin. It was real older dudes in the league. I played with Jared Jeffries, he was 40, 41 or something. Earl Watson was 40 when I played with him," Lillard said. "There’s nobody there to really let them know ‘you’re super-talented, but you’ve gotta earn stuff around here. You gotta earn your way.' They come in and everything is given to them from the beginning. So that affects how they are, the way they play. They play for themselves, they play for stats. They think they’re LeBron James when they make an All-Star Game or get a max contract. It’s just different.
"Like the rest of this stuff, the journey, doesn't matter. We can't keep doing that. I feel like there's so many ways that the league is different, and I think about it all the time where I'm like, man, I don't know if I can just play a long, long time, because I don't enjoy what the NBA as a whole is becoming."
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