August has arrived and it’s been a month since Damian Lillard asked to be traded from the Portland Trail Blazers. For 30 days, reports have emerged about the base’s favorite destination, as well as the high demands of his team to transfer him and even a statement from the NBA warning that it will sanction the player, and his agent, if the comments persist indicating that they will breach their contract in case of ending up in an unwanted franchise.
the course of Dame it is still uncertain, but reports by journalists Shams Charania and Adrian Wojnarowski are never lacking. The first assured that the Miami Heat, Lillard’s favorite organization, put together the structure of a pact to take over his services. “They are putting together a package with three or four first-round picks, plus potential draft swapsas well as second-round picks and young players,” said Charania of The Athletic.
According to a report from NBC SportsMiami made an offer of three picks He also offered Tyler Herro and Nikola Jovic or Jaime Jaquez Jr. as a young player and perhaps another player to balance salaries. However, Portland aspires to more and they also do not want to add Herro to the deal since he has Anfernee Simons on his payroll.
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For his part, Wojnarowski of ESPN He added: «Many managers, team presidents and even owners go on vacation at this time, in addition, the fact that there is no deadline for the transfer has delayed the process. Miami isn’t going to go against itself by raising its offer when Portland may not have another verifiable offer. The moment of truth for Portland will be at the end of September when the training camp“, he concluded.
The Oregon organization warned that they were not going to be in a rush to move their franchise player. “If he has to take months, he’ll take them,” said the general manager Joe Cronin. Well, the first month has already arrived and it seems that others will come.
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2023-08-01 04:23:09
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