Russell Westbrook is not the only leader who has made a stint at LeBron James this summer. Damian Lillard has indeed entrusted to Yahoo! Sports that at the beginning of July, while he was on the side of Los Angeles to shoot the music video for his new single “We The Ones” from his 4th album, he was invited by the King. The day before the shoot Lillard had gone to the WNBA game between the Sparks and the Aces, and the King was there too. It was there that he offered to stop by his home the next day.
“There he was: ‘Pass. Let’s eat together to discuss. ‘ So I passed. »Damian Lillard at Yahoo! Sports
The next day Lillard went to Brentwood to the King’s, where was also Anthony Davis, but he explains that LeBron was not necessarily in recruiting mode. However it seems that he at least tested the waters when a few weeks before Lillard had started to put a little pressure on the leaders, and the Lakers were looking for a point guard.
“Bron asked me what I thought of my situation, and I told him what I’m telling you: that I just want to be in a position to win the title,” Lillard told Yahoo Sports. “He described the situation to me by telling me that if I had to leave, the situation might look like this. He didn’t tell me to come to LA, and he didn’t tell me anything that I didn’t already know, other than what it might be like. I told him, ‘I know if I had to play with you it would work because of my skills, who I am and who you are.
Lillard told them about his reluctance to join a superteam.
“I was just saying, I don’t know if this is the path I would like to go,” Lillard said. “And that’s pretty much how the conversation went.”
During the preparation for the Olympics, the leader put a lot of pressure on his leaders, leaving doubt about his future, because he wanted above all that Neil Olshey activates and clearly shows its intentions. With the arrival of Chauncey Billups and the recruitment (also his willingness to stay in Portland for his family), he was reassured and re-enlisted.
“The whole time I knew I was a Trail Blazer, but obviously after the playoff loss I was like, ‘We have to do something to show that we are trying to win.’ There are so many teams in the league and some want to tank, others just want to be a playoff team and see if they can make things interesting. Then there are a few teams that want to win a title. So I was wondering if we were trying to win the title. I want to be part of a team to win the title is everyone’s mission. I was asking the team, ‘is this really what we’re trying to do? What are we doing to show that this is what we really want? These were my questions, and I put them that way. Like: ‘What are we doing? How can we honestly say we want to win it all? What steps are we taking? I just had a decision to make. »Lillard
We remind of course that the players, just like the managers, do not normally have the right to recruit themselves …
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