Damian Lillard went to bed on Monday night trapped on a sinking ship. He was a member of a Milwaukee Bucks team desperately trying to reshape its roster to appease Antetokounmpo without him, as Lillard will presumably miss most or all of the 2025-26 season recovering from a torn Achilles tendon.

Damian Lillard now has more freedom to choose where his next basketball destination will be after the Milwaukee Bucks waived him and stretched the $113 million left on his contract to acquire big man Myles Turner on Tuesday,

The All-Star guard was waived by the Bucks on Tuesday after suffering a torn Achilles that will sideline him for the upcoming season. The remaining two years and $113 million on his contract will be spread across the next five years of Milwaukee's books.