ESPN NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski joins SportsCenter to discuss how the Portland Trail Blazers are approaching Damian Lillard’s trade request with the knowledge that his preference is to land with Bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat.
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Miami might miss out on Dame $
They are going to trade with the Boston Celtics and get Jaylen brown. Watch!
Jaylen Brown
Zach lavine a couple picks with patrick Williams 🤔
I'm a Heat fan. I've been telling other Heat fans all along that Portland was not going to trade Dame for a poo poo platter entree featuring Tyler Herro because that's not enough in return and that other teams could easily outbid the Heat
I told them if Dame came to Miami. It would have to be a 3-team trade. Or the heat would have to trade Bam because that's the only player on Miami that they would need or want
And every Heat fan that engaged with me disagreed with me, but it looks like I was correct
The money just doesn't work for Miami. And Portland just doesn't want to be left crippled. If Dame doesn't want to play in Portland, he has another choice: Retire. I guess I'm too much of an NFL fan to understand how NBA players, specifically the great ones, get a pass from the fans on destroying teams and organizations when THEY can't get it done on the court.
Hes going to the heat this is just to push the heat into trading more pieces
So Portland is supposed to take a bad or subpar deal to do right by Dame. The blazers should appreciate Dame and take that into consideration but at the same time they can't take a deal thats not beneficial
Portland just gave Grant $160 million and hopes of keeping Dame. He waited until after they made that offer and then demanded a trade, smh
If he had asked to be traded sooner, they would not have signed Grant, Portland is likely understandably mad and now will do what's best for them
Dame couldn’t win a championship in Portland. Portland should tell Nurk to pack his bags to.
3 team trade between 76ers, Clippers & Portland. Philly gets Lillard, Clippers get Harden, Portland gets Tobias Harris & everything else lol
If Portland does Dame dirty, good luck recruiting any serious talent if that's how you're going to manage that level of loyalty Dame gave them. Publicly, it doesn't look good for business report.
Trade him to the Bucks
Woj is clearly a lackey in trade negotiations. He also creates narratives to help GMs in negotiations to boost or weaken their positions.
Portland might not want Herro/Duncan Robinson but those two would be good trade assets for the future as well. Duncan showed his old form in the playoffs shooting good and even cutting to the basket. And Herro is a young offense specialist
They want Maxey and Tobias
NOOOOOO
Trade him for cp3
That men woj is running on cocaine and Starbucks 😂😂😂😂
Lillard to Boston for Brown, Williams, and some picks is the deal that makes sense for both teams.
Pacers have a lot of pf c players are they looking to trade turner finally?
Hate to say it but Lakers might of won free agency
Na…….Portland better do him a favour by sending him to whatever team he insist.If he want to win than what's the point of joining a team like Knicks,Brooklyn and other etc.
Lol just don't play for whatever team if it's not Miami. This is what you dont stay loyal stop being clowns.
Come to the BAY
He stayed there all that time went threw all the bs. And they want make him happy.
Boston gonna trade for him
What if Dame goes to Indiana, Houston, or Detroit, he's taking a chance to end up on a worse team than Portland….not a championship-potential team like Miami. He'll be very sorry.
It’s time
praying he goes to philly
If Portland legitimately cares about their franchise then they would trade him to the Knicks since they have all the picks and young guys, but I’d love to see him on the Heat or Lakers
Poor Obi might be out of the league after this contract is up
Loyalty to a franchise is stupid. The team is gonna do what is best for them, player be damned. Dame gonna end up in okc or new orleans
Lmao yall really be on social media saying thank you to players who'll never read these comments 😂😂🤦🏾.
Spurs going to make a push for Dame
That’s stupid trade that man where he wants to go. That’s why players should never do anything to help a franchise they want return the favor
Dame already stated he WANTS to go to Miami and ONLY Miami. He said it’s Miami or bust
What happen to loyalty dame ? Lol 😂😂🤡🤡 you forgot it’s a business now ur gonna be called Charles Barkley 2.0 with no championship
Dang he fina go to the Celtics. 🤬🤬
Knicks will get him…Quickly, Barret, 2 picks
trade him for gaslem
Dame was loyal to this organization, they should do whatever it takes to help him go to the team he wants to play for. 🤷🏿♂️ They can “do what’s best for the organization” but then trash organizations like this shouldn’t complaint that they can’t attract superstars to play for them, cause they don’t show loyalty to players like Dame who showed nothing but loyalty to them. If they could attract actual star talent Dame wouldn’t have requested the trade.
All that “loyalty” nonsense and this is where it gets you smh. It’s YOUR career do what’s best for YOU
Woj is so obviously the mouth piece for all these front offices. Portland sent him all this information. Dame goes where he wants because he earned that.
Can Lakers make a push for lilard? Can they get christian wood?
Portland need to help dame get to his spot. He was very loyal and they should repay that. They will get something useful no matter where he wants to go.
D.Lo AR15 and rui and some sort of pick for dame🤞🏻