Damian Lillard & ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky Feud on Twitter After Orlovsky Calls Him a “Spoiled & Entitled Brat”

Earlier this week, Damian Lillard said that he “won’t play in meaningless NBA games if Portland can’t make the playoffs.” This apparently didn’t sit well with of all people, ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky, who called Lillard a “spoiled and entitled brat” on ESPN’s ‘Get Up’ on Thursday. The former quarterback and current ESPN analyst, known best for running out of the back of the end zone in his first career NFL start while playing for the 0-16 Lions, had this to say according to NBC Sports Northwest:

ā€œIf what weā€™ve experienced over the past three months has taught us anything, there is no such thing as meaningless anymore,ā€ Orlovsky said. ā€œWe canā€™t take things for granted anymore. And thereā€™s a different between have to and get to. And Damian Lillard would have the opportunity to get to play basketball again. Because thereā€™s people out there who have to go do thingsā€” frontline workers and nurses and doctors. They have to go to work and they have to work more hours and pay less because of what weā€™re dealing with. Damian Lillard would have the opportunity to get to play basketball and I would hope and challenge him in his mindset that the last few months has changed that and that heā€™d take that opportunity to go and performā€” to go and compete and get the opportunity to play basketball again. Some people donā€™t have a choice anymore. They have to go do things. It is not an option.

Orlosky continues,

“How can you sit there and go, ā€˜Nope, Iā€™m not going to play, but understand that thereā€™s people out there that donā€™t have that choice. They have to go to work. They have to go earn their money. I struggle with sitting here and going ā€˜you donā€™t come off, in some way, a spoiled and entitled brat by saying Iā€™m not going to play.”


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Well, this didn’t sit too well with Lillard:

Orlovsky then semi-apologized for using the term “entitled and spoiled brat:”

Naturally, the comment section was up for grabs and this one was the winner:

Lillard had the final word and didn’t seem too eager to accept any apology:

If there’s any consolation for Orlovsky here, this type of publicity may be the perfect promotion for his upcoming ESPN 30 for 30:


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