According to a new story from TrueHoop’s Henry Abbott, Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard informed his Team USA teammates that he was considering a trade demand earlier this month. Abbott’s sources explained that Lillard touched on his deteriorating relationship with the Blazers at a team dinner following Team USA’s victory over Argentina.
Indeed, that Wednesday it was Damian Lillard who complained most memorably. Sources say he told his national team friends that he thought the situation in Portland was getting worse. The next day was his birthday; he would turn 31. He told the group that he had meetings with his team coming up the day after that, and he was thinking about demanding a trade.