Acquiring Damian Lillard required pushing all the chips to the table and the Milwaukee Bucks saw luxury-tax aprons on one side, with Giannis Antetokounmpo's possible eye wandering on the other. The longer the Miami Heat and Portland Trail Blazers went without consummating a deal, particularly with training camp looming and nobody wanting a PR disaster if Lillard showed up to camp, the more the odds increased for someone to step in and realize Lillard was worth the chance.
on the other. The longer the Miami Heat and Portland Trail Blazers went without consummating a deal, particularly with training camp looming and nobody wanting a PR disaster if Lillard showed up to camp, the more the odds increased for someone to step in and realize Lillard was worth the chance.
The deal doesn't look like Milwaukee knocked Portland's socks off — Jrue Holiday will have to be moved before one can truly evaluate the Trail Blazers' haul in this. Holiday, arguably the league's best defensive guard, told the media in Milwaukee on TuesdayToday, he’s sent away — albeit a champion and beloved figure, with very little agency to his future, and no regard to his own connection to a place he’s learned to call home.
So, the Bucks quietly began poking around the matter two weeks ago, league sources told Yahoo Sports. A deal of this manner — involving multiple teams and a player of Lillard’s stature required discretion. They waited out the dalliance with Toronto Raptors that came and went, before putting the finishing touches on an agreement Wednesday afternoon.
Antetokounmpo having late-game help — a player who yearns for the big moment, who doesn’t need to be set up while also being able to facilitate others — seems like a match made in heaven for the time being. You could stick the low-maintenance Holiday on virtually any perimeter star in the league, and feel reasonably comfortable that your defense won’t be compromised. Lillard isn’t that brand of defender, although one would think he would rise to the level of accountability playing with Antetokounmpo demands. It’s the same internal accountability that would’ve been waiting for him in Miami, with Erik Spoelstra, Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo.
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