{"id":793076,"date":"2026-07-30T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793076\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:35:09","slug":"damian-lillard-the-only-player-with-a-no-trade-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793076\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard the only player with a no-trade clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:During the 2026\/27 league year, only one NBA player will have a formal no-trade clause in his contract. That player is Damian Lillard, who negotiated a no-trade clause into his deal with the Trail Blazers last summer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;During the 2026\/27 league year, only one NBA player will have a formal no-trade clause in his contract. That player is Damian Lillard, who negotiated a no-trade clause into his deal with the Trail Blazers last summer&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/nba-players-who-can-veto-trades-in-2026-27.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">During the 2026\/27 league year, only one NBA player will have a formal no-trade clause in his contract. That player is Damian Lillard, who negotiated a no-trade clause into his deal with the Trail Blazers last summer<\/a>. <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3704\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a> and <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5009\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Beal<\/a> had no-trade clauses in their respective contracts in recent years, but Beal gave his up when he agreed to a buyout with the Suns during the 2025 offseason, and James no longer has one after his contract with the Lakers expired this summer. LeBron would have been eligible for a no-trade clause if he had rejoined the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Cavaliers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cavaliers&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Cavaliers<\/a> or Heat in free agency, but since he hasn&#8217;t played for <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> before, he couldn&#8217;t add one to his new contract with the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Sixers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sixers&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sixers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the 2026\/27 league year, only one NBA player will have a formal no-trade clause in his contract.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[14696,5487,3013,355,99,20396],"class_list":["post-793076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bradley-beal","tag-damian-lillard","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-trail-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793076","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=793076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}