{"id":439388,"date":"2023-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/lillard-hopes-blazers-and-heat-can-talk-trade-during-summer-league\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T04:00:00","slug":"lillard-hopes-blazers-and-heat-can-talk-trade-during-summer-league","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lillard-hopes-blazers-and-heat-can-talk-trade-during-summer-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Lillard hopes Blazers and Heat can talk trade during Summer League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Lillard\u2019s desire to leave Portland Blazers has not and will not change as the seven-time All-Star wants to be traded to the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Lillard\u2019s agent, Aaron Goodwin, confirmed that stance Thursday and said he hopes that the Portland Trail Blazers can get into talks with the Heat on steps toward a deal in the coming days, especially with every NBA team gathering in Las Vegas for Summer League that starts on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers publicly revealed this past weekend that Lillard had asked for a trade, an announcement that ended weeks of speculation about his future in Portland.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Damian Lillard\u2019s agent is looking to sit down and meet with the Miami Heat<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a positive conversation with Joe (Cronin) and I made it clear that Damian would want them to sit down and have a meaningful negotiation with Miami. And I think that\u2019s something that Joe and the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7UukzDJPYd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7UukzDJPYd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBACentral\/status\/1677070561866907649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe player&#8217;s main reason to leave is his desire for a chance to contend for a title. The Blazers have won only four playoff series in his 11 seasons and missed the playoffs in each of the last two years by wide margins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Lillard\u2019s desire to leave Portland Blazers has not and will not change as the seven-time All-Star wants to be traded to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":439389,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17039,17010,16847],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[20017,17912,18063],"acf":{"news_source":null,"link_picture":null,"announce":"He wants to join a team where fighting for a title is not a mirage","video":null},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439388"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439388"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}