{"id":439854,"date":"2023-07-15T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T18:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439854"},"modified":"2023-07-15T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T18:11:24","slug":"lillard-trade-could-take-weeks-even-months-report-says","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lillard-trade-could-take-weeks-even-months-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Lillard trade could take weeks, even months, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entire NBA is waiting for Damian Lillard transfer, which would likely see him join Miami, but according to a report from ESPN, things are not as simple and the trade could take weeks, or even months to materialize.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time All-Star has made his desires crystal clear that he will depart the Blazers, the club he has spent the whole of his career, and his likely destinations is the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>But the two side are yet to come to definite conclusion and will not be in any hurry due to the convenience of the NBA calendar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Damian Lillard trade update via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Timeline for potential deal still likely to be weeks or months from now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Trail Blazers will not rush into what they consider a \u201cbad deal\u201d from the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Miami doesn\u2019t want to bid against themselves for Lillard: \u201cThey know that\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aZHUBb8gPL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/aZHUBb8gPL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evan Sidery (@esidery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esidery\/status\/1680047289589432320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could take months, it could take weeks,\u201d Wojnarowski from ESPN said. \u201cI think the absence of a real deadline lurking on a Damian Lillard trade\u2014there\u2019s no trade deadline coming, there\u2019s no NBA draft, there\u2019s no July 1 free agency about to start\u2014all those landmarks in the NBA calendar give teams motivation and give teams parameters to get big deals done. The next real deadline for any of these teams is the start of training camp in late September.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire NBA is waiting for Damian Lillard transfer, which would likely see him join Miami, but according to a report from ESPN, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439855,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17039,16847],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20017,18063],"acf":{"announce":"The Trail Blazers' star future has been a hot topic this summer","video":["video"]},"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\/439854"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439854"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439854"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}