Dame is still bitching and bad mouthing Joe.
Just move the fuck on dude.
https://theathletic.com/4982925/2023/10/23/bucks-damian-lillard-trade-giannis-antetokounmpo/
“By the time late September rolled around, Lillard had long since given up hope of landing in Miami. The acrimony between his camp and Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin had reached a point of no return, with Lillard convinced that it had become so personal between them that a future with the
Heat was not to be. Cronin had stopped communicating with Lillard’s agent, Aaron Goodwin, in mid-September. Even Lillard’s pre-training camp choice to rejoin the Blazers — part of his plan to remain patient while Cronin worked closer to a deal — was
met with resistance from Cronin.
“It was anything to go against what I would have wanted,” Lillard told
The Athletic, “That part was irritating. Just based off how it was happening, I knew (it wouldn’t be Miami).
“(The Blazers) hadn’t talked to Miami. So once it started happening like that, then I started hearing about all these other random teams, I was like, ‘I’m probably not going to Miami.’ So I wasn’t holding on to that too (much).”
What he had done, though, was green-light a message to Milwaukee in mid-September that would have everything to do with what came next.
When Lillard was convinced that Miami was off the table, Goodwin wanted to know if the Bucks were among the teams in serious pursuit of his seven-time-All-Star client. They weren’t.
But when that backchannel blessing was given, with the Bucks learning that Lillard would be excited about a possible partnership with the Bucks, the chase was on. And so the work began for Horst and his small group of trusted front office associates.”
