Aaron Fentress of the Oregonian<\/a> revealed an interesting wrinkle about Lillard’s time in Milwaukee, stating that the All-Star had little interest in joining Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks, instead joining the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n“He didn’t want to go there in the first place; he wanted to go to Miami,” Fentress said. “He relented and went to Milwaukee because his agent talked him into it, right? It gave him a chance to win.” During the episode, the insider explained Lillard’s potential link to the Heat.<\/p>\n
Lillard requested a trade out of Portland in 2023, with the Heat being his preferred destination. However, he was ultimately dealt to Milwaukee in a blockbuster three team trade that would give Giannis Antetokounmpo another top player to play with.<\/p>\n
His time with the Bucks was short-lived, Despite his stellar play averaging\u00a024.6 points and 7.0 assists per in a Bucks uniform, the team’s inability to replicate the same success they had in 2021, when the franchise won its first championship since 1971.<\/p>\n
Lillard has had a Hall of Fame career so far, his return to Portland makes a full-circle moment in what has been a rocky\u00a0 chapter in his legendary NBA career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks have had one of the busiest teams in the league in the offseason. After signing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[12487,49,48,3557,8228,2697,8224,8216,8220,459,6683,82],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-aaron-fentress","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-damian-lillard","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-miami-heat","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-myles-turner","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}