Damian Lillard has been copping a variety of hate on-line after he requested a commerce away from Portland and his USA teammate Kevin Durant has been on-line defending him.

KD is somebody who is aware of a good bit about requesting trades since he did so in dramatic vogue at Brooklyn final season.

Durant is thought for participating with followers on social media and there was one remark about Lillard he felt the necessity to reply to.

Lol 1 or 2 extra years Lmao. What do u be watching gang severely.

— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) July 5, 2023

KD does have some extent. Lillard is coming off one among his greatest NBA seasons to this point.

Dame averaged a career-high 32.2 factors, to go along with 4.8 rebounds and seven.3 assists on 46.3 p.c capturing from the sector.

These are some wildly environment friendly numbers, so it might be fairly stunning to see a big dip in efficiency in a 12 months or two from Lillard.

The 32-year-old has made it abundantly clear that he didn’t need to stick round on the Blazers to see younger expertise develop, as he wished a win-now group.

However the franchise clearly has different concepts as they opted to maintain their quantity two draft decide Scoot Henderson.

Lillard even took to social media himself this week defending himself and making an attempt to grasp why he was copping a lot hate from Blazer’s followers – since he made his intentions clear from the beginning.

“It’s in my blood to take the excessive street. I’d love to listen to what followers are turning on… have I mislead them? Or anybody ? Fill me in,” Lillard tweeted in response to a followers remark.

Miami is Dame’s clear favourite touchdown spot, however the Blazers reportedly don’t give a rattling.

“The Blazers’ entrance workplace, their group made it clear to groups who known as yesterday about Damian Lillard that they’re open for enterprise in all places within the league on him,” Wojnarowski mentioned Sunday morning on ESPN.