Nine-Time NBA All-Star Damian Lillaard Agreed to a Three-Year, $ 42 Million Contract to Return to the Portland Trail Blazers, Souries Told Espn on Thursday.
LILLARD’s Deal Includes a Player Option in 2027-28 and a no-trade clause.
LILLARD JOINS The Los Angeles Lakers’ Lebron James as the Only NBA Players with a True no-Trade Clause in their Contracts. Bradley Beal Had One Before Coming to A Buyout Agreement with the Phoenix Sun Earlier This Week.
Lilaard and the Trail Blazers Both Deeply Card About a Reunion in Recent Weeks – With Multiple Meetings A among Billups to bond to starter and more for first on a new Deal, Sources SAID.
The Milwaukee Bucks Waived Lillard, 35, Earlier This Month and Stretched the Remaining $ 113 Million on his Contract to Sign Free Agent Center Myles Turner.
LILLARD Now Will Have a 2025-26 Set Salary of $ 70 Million Between His Portland and Milwaukee Deals, and a salary of $ 141 Million Over the Next Two Years AHEAD of An Opt-Uout in 2027. Blazers Officials and Aaron Goodwin of Goodwin SPORTS Management Finalized Terms This Week.
LILLARD TORE HIS Left Achilles in Late April in Game 4 of the Bucks’ First-Round Playoff Series with the Indiana Pacers and UnderWent Surgery in Early May.
Lilaard will us Sources. He also have mutuple MidLevel Exception and Minimum Offers from NBA Contenters, Per Sourieses.
Portland Traded Lilaard to the Bucks for JRUE HOLIYI, Toumani Camara, and Assets in 2023 and then Sen Holiday to the Bostu Celtics for Robert Williams III, Malcolm BroGDONON and Assets (One LED to Deni Avdija).
Now, The Blazers Have Both Lillard and Holiday (Reacquired in a Trade with the Celtics This Offseason), Plus Avdija, Williams, Camara, A 2029 First-Rounder and Two Bucks pick Swaps.
The Blazers Will Look to Build on a 22-18 Finish to last SEASON, Ranking in the Top Five in the NBA in Defense and Third in Transition Defeense During that Span, According to Espn Research.
LILLARD SANT 11 Seasons with the Trail Blazers, Makeing Seven All-Star Appoarses and Seven All-Nba Teams. He LED Portland to the Playoffs Eight Times, Including A Western Conference Finals Apparance in 2018-19. He Ranks First in Team History in Points (19,376) and 3-Pointers (2,387), and SECOND in Assists (5,151).
Including the regular season and playoffs, lilaard haas Seven 55-Point Games with the Trail Blazers. No other Player in the Franchise’s History Has any such games.
