Goods Simonss un Damians Lilards | Photo: Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports
Damian Lilard, Portland’s top star for the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Trail Blazers, is unhappy with the team’s performance and the failure of players to understand head coach Chonias Bilaps, informs The Athletic insaideri Shams Sharania and Sam Amiks. He would also love to play with Philadelphia’s 76ers Ben Ben Simons, who has already played 99% of his last game in Philadelphia.
Portland currently ranks a modest 10th place in the Western Conference, but the team failed to reinforce in the off-season, so it is realistically fighting for a place in the play-in this season. Unit leader Lilard is not showing the same performance this season. If in the last six seasons he has never scored less than 25 points on average, then this season he has 21.5 points and 7.8 assists in the match, which is the second best indicator of his career. Lilard has also been haunted by injuries this season.
The club fired General Manager Nile Olshia last week. Sources in The Athletic confirm that his attitude was toxic, and the functionary often shouted and was hostile to other employees. Lilard, on the other hand, is unhappy with the team’s performance, but the players and Bilaps are unable to understand the relationship between the two sides has deteriorated recently.
The Athletic also reports that Lilard would love to play with 76ers Simon, who refuses to represent the Philadelphia team this season. Meanwhile, the 76ers have suggested that the substitution will not take place if Philadelphia does not have a chance to get a player to improve the team’s chances for the title, and the club’s president of basketball operations, Deril Mory, revealed some time ago that the situation is not rushing. can last up to several years. Meanwhile, Simons regularly receives financial penalties for refusing to play.
Olshia, who had already been fired, had previously offered to replace the 76ers, in which Portland would send Christian CJ McCollum to Philadelphia, a first-round draft and a young player such as Nasir Little or Anferney Simon, but the 76ers wanted Macolum and several draft options, but did not agree with Trail Blazers.
Personal opinion:
C.J. McCollum, a first-round pick and Nassir Little or Anfernee Simons is more than enough in trade for Ben Simmons.
Philadelphia can’t overplay their hand here. That’s a good package and vaults them near the top of the East.
— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) December 6, 2021
