On this edition of The Brief Case, Casey Holdahl of Trailblazers.com discusses...• The Trail Blazers having just seven players available in their loss to the Kings on Wednesday• Shaedon Sharpe doing something that only Luka Doncic, Kevin Durant and LeBron James had done before• The remaining schedules of Trail Blazers, Magic, Pacers and Wizards• Rooting for the Knicks to make the playoffs and avoid the play-in• Justise Winslow's comments on undergoing season-ending surgery on his left ankle• Keon Johnson breaking his finger and the Trail Blazers responding by signing Skylar Mays out of the G-League to a 10-day contractAnd then the show wraps up with an extending interview with Damian Lillard. Lillard, who is already a hot topic going into the 2023 offseason, discusses his main takeaways from the 2022-23 season, returning from injury while reminding people how great he is, what he was heartened and disappointed by this season, how he views his individual performance, his thoughts on why he should be first-team All-NBA, why watching the playoffs puts him in a bad mood, his comments on JJ Redick's podcast about what constitutes success and the reaction to those comments, his issues with the NBA media landscape and what he hopes the team can get accomplished in the offseason.