Every year, everyone thinks Damian Lillard should ask for a trade; year after year, he doesn’t ask out.
Dame has stated over and over how much he loves Portland and wants to win a championship there, but to everyone else, it seems like the team isn’t doing its job putting a contending team around him.
It’s not just fans that want him to leave Portland. It’s players too. Specifically LeBron James, according to Dame.
While speaking to The Ringer, Dame talked about the time LeBron approached him at an Aces vs. Sparks game to invite him to his home for dinner, which LeBron and Anthony Davis then tried to recruit him to the Lakers.
“He was just like, ‘Pull up to the house,’” Lillard said in a recent interview with Logan Murdock of The Ringer. “And I’m like, shit, I’m out here. Tomorrow is the only day I ain’t got nothing planned out. I can pull up for a little bit.”
“I wasn’t even looking at it like a recruiting process,” Lillard added. “The whole time I was like, ‘I play for the Blazers.’ My only point is, let’s give ourselves a chance. I wasn’t sending no shots or sending no threats. I’m just honest. When I get asked a question, I answer the question. Because these questions had never been asked.”
“People make a joke out of it sometimes, like, ‘Man, he’s too loyal, he don’t want to win, he just want his money,’” he said. “I don’t take nothing away from those guys. I think a lot of times because of my stance on it, people try to put my stance on it as if I’m belittling or I’m saying something bad about the guys that do move. And I’m not. I’m just standing on my square about what I believe. They can do whatever they want; if that’s what makes them happy, then do it.”
If you look up the word loyalty in the dictionary, there should be a picture of Damian Lillard next to the word.
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