There is a significant difference between Kevin Durant and Damian Lillard. While Durant was a free agent, Lillard is currently trying to force a trade, which I personally believe is a worse situation than Durant’s.
Furthermore, Lillard recently explained why he could never sign with the Warriors.
Damian Lillard requested a trade from the Portland Trail Blazers in July, and Tuesday he made his trade request a little more specific: not the Golden State Warriors.
On the YouTube show “It Is What It Is,” Lillard made it clear he is not interested in joining the Warriors at any point in the future.
“I respect what they’ve been doing over the last eight, nine years or whatever, and I’m from there, obviously. That’s home. But I can’t go be a part of that,” Lillard said around the 53-minute mark. “They won four championships. What I look like going to try to do that?
“… It don’t even make sense. I’d never do nothing like that. I’d lose every year before I go.”
“If I was in his shoes, I wouldn’t have done that personally. I just felt like, it’s the team they lost to. It’s a team that won it once before he got there,” Lillard said about the Durant’s decision.
Lillard wants to go where he wants to go, but in the end, it’s not his choice. The Blazers hold all the power here. And considering how little chatter there’s been about trading Lillard over the past month, he might not end up going anywhere for quite a while.
This clearly makes no sense because Lillard wants to go to a team that has been in the Finals a couple of times over the last few years, to make the grind easier for him just like Durant.
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