Damian Lillard is ready to request a trade that would take him away from the Portland Trail Blazers. Today Henry Abbott of Truehoop cited a “source close to Lillard” saying that the request was imminent in an article titled “About That Time”.
Abbott portrayed Portland’s exit in the 2021 NBA Playoffs at the hands of the Denver Nuggets as emblematic of the issue. Lillard scored 55 points in in Game 5 of that series but the Blazers lost in double-overtime, which Abbott says “cemented the narrative” that the team isn’t good enough to support a superstar of his magnitude.