{"id":436221,"date":"2023-09-24T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=436221"},"modified":"2023-09-24T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T17:37:40","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-planning-to-pair-damian-lillard-with-joel-embiid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/philadelphia-76ers-planning-to-pair-damian-lillard-with-joel-embiid\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers Planning To Pair Damian Lillard With Joel Embiid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With fewer than two weeks before the start of training camp, the Damian Lillard story is heating up. Despite Lillard&#8217;s wish to go to South Beach, the Portland Trail Blazers have allegedly begun discussions with clubs other than the Miami Heat. The Blazers&#8217; front staff has been in contact with Joel Embiid&#8217;s Philadelphia 76ers, according to an NBA insider.<\/p>\n<h2>Philadelphia 76ers Planning To Pair Damian Lillard With Joel Embiid?<\/h2>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/sixers\/\"> Sixers<\/a> source Kyle Neubeck, the Sixers have talked about Lillard with the Blazers at &#8220;different points&#8221; this summer. On the &#8216;PHLY Sixers Podcast,&#8217; Neubeck further emphasized that the Sixers might not have the package to get Blazers superstar:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was some smoke out there today regarding Dame to the Sixers,&#8221; Neubeck said. &#8220;And that maybe the Sixers&#8217; involvement in this process has been underplayed. I wouldn&#8217;t go quite that far yet. Here&#8217;s what I can tell you that I know for sure that the Sixers have certainly talked to the Blazers about Dame at different points throughout this offseason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Damian Lillard is traded to Heat by next week, we will send one person who likes this tweet $1000. Must be following <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QWVZOx1lWW\">pic.twitter.com\/QWVZOx1lWW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hoops (@HoopMixOnly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoopMixOnly\/status\/1703471957524492734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Talking to someone and saying, &#8216;Hey, we would like Dame Lillard on our basketball team&#8217; is not &#8216;We&#8217;re putting together a credible trade package for Dame Lillard.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lillard has been the most sought-after trade target this summer, but the Blazers have yet to get an acceptable offer and may begin training camp with Lillard still on the roster next month.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/KillHimJoziah\/status\/1705033956129734726<\/p>\n<p>Blazers general manager Joe Cronin indicated in June that Lillard had sought a trade, but he did not promise a deal would be done and stated that the front office will do what is best for the team as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>According to Marc J. Spears of ESPN Andscape, Lillard&#8217;s favoured landing location is the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I think the Trail Blazers feel like they&#39;re getting bullied into the trade&#8230; Damian Lillard has given everything to this franchise&#8230; You owe him his preferred destination.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Jason Timpf calls out the Blazers \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheVolumeSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheVolumeSports<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/knVD9DHijC\">pic.twitter.com\/knVD9DHijC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/1704544045563793842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lillard allegedly requested a trade because he did not believe the Blazers had done enough in free agency and on the trade market to place themselves in playoff and championship contention.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ITS HAPPENING Damian Lillard to MIAMI!!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0PTtKWzz9d\">pic.twitter.com\/0PTtKWzz9d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; el\u00a1 \uf8ff\uea00 (@3li3z3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3li3z3\/status\/1703240998392905883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia 76ers may not have the most tempting assets to make a Damian Lillard deal happen. They also have a trade conundrum with James Harden, who asked to be traded this offseason. They may need to dump Harden first before having a chance to sign Lillard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NBA All-Star Game 2024: Schedule, Date, Venue &amp; Where To Watch?\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nba-all-star-game-2024-schedule-date-venue-where-to-watch\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NBA All-Star Game 2024: Schedule, Date, Venue &amp; Where To Watch?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fewer than two weeks before the start of training camp, the Damian Lillard story is heating up. Despite Lillard&#8217;s wish to go to South Beach, the Portland Trail Blazers have allegedly begun discussions with clubs other than the Miami Heat. The Blazers&#8217; front staff has been in contact with Joel Embiid&#8217;s Philadelphia 76ers, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":387611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[342,15718,15719,428,8357,8964],"class_list":["post-436221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-damian-lillard","tag-damian-lillard-joel-embiid","tag-damian-lillard-news","tag-joel-embiid","tag-joel-embiid-news","tag-joel-embiid-trade"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}