Over the last two weeks, Henry Abbott has become a topic of discussion for his reporting that Damian Lillard wants out of his current situation with the Portland Trail Blazers. On yesterday’s episode of TrueHoop TV, Abbott joined Jarod Hector and David Thorpe to discuss the legitimacy of his work, as well as the recent, impromptu conversation he had with the Blazers star over the past week.
Abbott went through the details of the two’s public sparring on Twitter and the backlash he received before getting into the conversation with Lillard:
“I published it and tweeted it, and then he like, retweeted it with the facepalm emoji, and then he talked to reporters and said that none of it was true.