{"id":447385,"date":"2023-07-29T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447385"},"modified":"2023-07-29T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T11:00:26","slug":"nba-sends-memo-about-damian-trade-request","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nba-sends-memo-about-damian-trade-request\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA sends memo about Damian trade request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Portland Trail Blazers superstar Damian Lillard&#8217;s craving to compete only for the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/miami-heat\/\">Miami Heat<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>, his agent, the National Basketball Association, sent a memo to all 30 franchises today stating that anyone, or his agent, sharing that he won&#8217;t &#8220;fully perform the services called for under his player deal in the event of an exchange&#8221; will face disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>Damian agent Aaron Goodwin shared with the media that other organizations don\u2019t need to try to trade for his player because he only wants to continue his career with Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Lillard and Goodwin told the league that the player would fulfill his deal no matter where he was traded.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, the NBA will punish comments like that from Damian or his agent. Damian spent his entire career in the league \u2013 11 years \u2013 with Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NBA sent a memo Friday to all 30 teams about Damian Lillard\u2019s trade request and the stance that he only wants to play in Miami. Reporting details on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRally?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheRally<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xkgMfcTeqI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xkgMfcTeqI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1685037253356089344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Portland Trail Blazers superstar Damian Lillard&#8217;s craving to compete only for the Miami Heat, his agent, the National Basketball Association, sent a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":447386,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17039,17010,17837,16847],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[20017,17912,18063,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The league is addressing Lilard's trade request.","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\/447385"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447385"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447385"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}