Seeing a guy named Damion Lee do things in the NBA just makes me think about New Jersey Nets legend Damion James. What happened to that guy anyway? He wasn’t the worst player ever. He was probably about as good as Damion Lee is, but Lee is still in the NBA as of this writing whereas James is nowhere to be found. If I was a GM I would make sure that my franchise was like the animal shelter equivalent of the NBA, taking in lost and stray players and making them healthy again and giving them the love and minutes they deserve.
Anyway, back to Damion Lee, who is really in the NBA right now and just scored thirteen points in his NBA debut. I fully support giving Lee all the minutes that Bazemore was getting before he bone bruised himself right into the morgue where his body now lies embalmed in preservation fluids. Based off this limited amount of minutes, Lee looks like he can contribute, and is, at the very least, a legit enough NBA player where the NBA can’t get mad at the Hawks for trying to develop him and then take away their draft picks for tanking too good.
There’s one stipulation, however: under no circumstances can Lee’s minutes cut into, or take away from, Josh Magette’s minutes. I know they don’t play the same position, but still: if Lee takes Magette’s minutes, I will find out where he lives and then have ten jumbo orders of buffalo wings delivered to his house as a prank. Nobody can eat that many wings.