{"id":17338,"date":"2025-07-17T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/17338\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:36:08","slug":"damian-lillard-deep-in-discussions-with-trail-blazers-about-possible-return-bill-oram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/17338\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard deep in discussions with Trail Blazers about possible return | Bill Oram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers celebrates after winning the three-point contest at the NBA basketball All-Star weekend Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo\/Rick Bowmer)\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ZRSWPXN3W5GMBDGTIPFXW5YMHA.JPG\" \/>Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers celebrates after winning the three-point contest at the NBA basketball All-Star weekend Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo\/Rick Bowmer)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3QN6STTDTVDSXFLUT5XQL6ZYSU\">The Portland Trail Blazers are moving toward a stunning reunion with Damian Lillard two years after they traded the franchise icon to the Milwaukee Bucks in an effort kickstart a rebuild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BE6PRA65VNFRRBRTNBF4ZN7NVE\">NBA sources told The Oregonian\/OregonLive that Lillard is strongly considering signing with the franchise where he became a seven-time All-Star over the first 11 years of his career, and that sides are deep in discussions about a reunion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers celebrates after winning the three-point contest at the NBA basketball All-Star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-17338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}