Blazers’ Dame Lillard tears into Dan Orlovsky over bizarre attack

1. When you get paid for the hot takes, you are going to get burned occasionally. Happens to everyone.

It just happened to ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky. I’m a fan of Orlovsky’s work and named him “Fastest Riser” in SI’s 2019 Sports Media Awards. He also appeared on the SI Media Podcast in February.

However, the take he dropped on Get Up Wednesday morning was pretty cringeworthy.

Orlovsky was discussing comments made by Blazers star Damian Lillard, who told Yahoo! Sports, “If we come back and I don’t have an opportunity to make the playoffs, I will show up to work, I’ll be at practice and I’ll be with my team. I’m going to do all that and then I’m going to be sitting right on that bench during the games.”

For some reason, Orlovsky took great offense at Lillard’s remarks and somehow thought