Damian Lillard Schooled A Twitter User For Criticizing Mike Conley’s Contract

The Memphis Grizzlies had a pretty good start to free agency. First, they edged out the Portland Trail Blazers (and several other teams) to sign Chandler Parsons to a max deal worth about $94 million over four years. Later, they did exactly as expected by re-signing incumbent point guard Mike Conley to an enormous five-year, $153 million contract. That makes Conley’s deal the largest in NBA history.

The player who previously held that distinction was Damian Lillard, whose contract last summer rose to nearly $152 million thanks to the financial bump he earned for making a second-straight All-NBA team. Conley and Lillard are two of countless players currently reaping the benefits of the financial windfall coming from the massive television deals the league signed last year, which have sent the salary cap soaring to a reported $94 million for 2016-17.

Regardless of that economic reality, some fans have a hard time wrapping their heads around a player like Conley inking a historic contract. One fan, in particular, seemed incensed specifically that Conley now makes more money that Lillard.

But Lillard has never been one to get caught up in nonsense like that, so he quickly schooled the guy on proper etiquette, a sort of unspoken rule among highly-paid professional athletes that Jalen Rose likes to call “stay out my pockets.”

Talking about money is generally considered uncivilized in polite company anyway, so chalk it up to just another one of the many ways social media continues to subvert decorum in ways we would never imagine doing IRL.