Despite Ending His 11-Year-Long Loyalty, Damian Lillard’s Wait for a New NBA Home Further Extends Due to a Series of Unfortunate Updates

The last few hours have been raining trade updates in the NBA world. The trades involving big names like Draymond Green, Russell Westbrook, Kyle Kuzma and Jordan Poole happened in quick succession. However, the story hasn’t been the same for a Portland Trail Blazers star.

The 7x NBA All-Star hinting his way out from Blazers since forever has to stay put for some more days as new updates engulf the hoops community.

New trade updates puts Damian Lillard in darkness

Despite delivering superstar level performance for the team, Lillard couldn’t take his team to the playoffs for two consecutive years. The star averaged 32.2 points in the recently completed season. After exiting the season in the regular season, Dame provided clear signs on his intentions to cut ties of his 11-season-long relationship with the Blazers. 

Damian Lillard hinted his trade through various activities after his team’s exit in regular. The star witnessed two playoff games from courtside and also expressed his wish to make a conversation with the front office if they don’t bring in major changes in the roster.

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After months of hinting, he finally made his official request to the Blazers for a trade out and recent updates revealed that the Miami Heat is his go-to franchise. 

However, Dame’s request might have come in a little late as two major updates reveal that the Heat cannot accommodate the 32-year-old star.

According to Jake Weinbach, a senior NBA writer, it will take some time for the star to find a spot in the Heat roster. He tweeted, “The Heat don’t have enough assets to please the Blazers.” 

Dame’s intentions to move to the Heat sinks into darkness after the update. 

Will Blazers look beyond Heat?

While there is an update on lack of assets from the Heat to strike a deal with Dame, another update can be a final nail in the coffin for his Heat dream.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski, the Blazers want to look beyond Heat. 

“Joe Cronin,” Wojnarowski tweeted, “is pursuing a star-level return package for Damian Lillard – and that Cronin plans to look well beyond the Miami Heat to find one.”

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Will the upcoming trade put an end to Lillard’s trophy drought? Well, the future will only tell the answer.