Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard has been pointed out in trade rumors a lot more usually this offseason than any in his 11-year profession. Most connection him to the Heat, a group in need of backcourt assistance to acquire the up coming steps right after profitable the Eastern Meeting title.
Lillard, usually quick to spell out his rigorous loyalty to Portland, has completed minor to dissolve these rumors—and in reality could have stoked them even much more Friday evening.
The seven-time All-Star filmed himself smiling and laughing on Instagram Stay even though listening to “Miami,” Will Smith’s 1997 Billboard top-20 hit, in a French nightclub. Lillard’s agent, Aaron Goodwin, was quick to rebuke any link between the tune preference and a likely Miami trade.
“The new music was just a coincidence,” Goodwin instructed Sam Amick of The Athletic. “Damian’s not disrespectful. He’s not an instigator, so he’s not likely to do just about anything out of character. There would be no motive for him to do that. … It is a amusing coincidence that a DJ would put that on.”
As Amick noticed, Lillard’s Instagram Live also included Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” a music that includes the lyric, “I wanna feel the heat with any individual.”
Trail Blazers fans can only hope upcoming Lillard Instagram Lives contain Drake, Quavo and Travis Scott’s 2017 hit “Portland.”
