On Wednesday afternoon, the long-awaited Damian Lillard news came to pass when the Bucks and the Trail Blazers
Agreed to a three-team trade that will send former No. 1 overall choice Deandre Ayton to Portland in exchange for the star guard.Shortly after Dame requested a trade,
Lillard and his agent Aaron Goodwin made it plain that the 33-year-old only wanted to be transferred to Miami.
Instead, he will join one of the Heat's biggest East Coast rivals in Milwaukee.
Lillard bid adieu to Portland in his first remark since the news of the trade surfaced, and he appeared ,
to put an end to any rumors that he might refuse to report to his new team. Prior to accepting the offer from the Bucks on Wednesday,
the Trail Blazers had not spoken with the Heat once again, a league source tells Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald.
Chiang claims that communication between Miami and Portland during the offseason was rather minimal and that the Heat were ,