After playing in the game 3 at 19:00 CT, the only concentration of Milwaukee Bucks is to keep serving at home to send a 2: 0 hole in the first series of rounds against Pacers. Game 2 He brought the benefit of Damian Lillard’s return, but the star guard looked a bit rusty in the first match after 35-day absence, passing 4-13 from the field for 14 points.
This time, Bucks should expect better performance than Dame, but if at least they don’t make the series competitive, Front Office can check how this summer this summer. One of the ways would be trade in Lillard. As speculation, the chances already indicate its most likely landing places in the case of traffic before the next season.
DAME TIME DEPENDED
He still signed a two -year extension with a value of $ 112 million in 2022 from Portland. In addition to the existing contract. This extension begins next year, with the player’s option in 2026-27. It is not impossible to imagine that he is going somewhere else if Milwaukee falls in the first round for the third time in a row.
34 years, in its 13th season, Lillard is no longer a real long -term focal point. However, it remains one of the elite playmakers in the game, on average 24.9 points and 7.1 assists in 2024–25. In his two seasons in Milwaukee he filled the role of a star along with Giannis Antetokunmpo, giving Bucks a terrifying duo when both are vigorous.
However, health was a problem in the delayed season. Last year, Giannis left the entire first round of Playoffs; Lillard sat in a series of two games. He and Antetokunmpo enjoyed relatively good health this season before the diagnosis of DAM. Despite the wonderfully quickly recovery, he could not return on time to play 1 versus Indiana, a loss. Although he has a chance to regain the rhythm with each game, as it persists as the series passes, it is uncertain.
It is possible that CEO Jon Horst, who summed up his own extension on Thursday, wants to transfer Lillard to younger talent – similar to the exchange of the Khris Middleton trade date (33) for Kyle Kuzmy (29).
Top Damian Lillard Trade Partners for Milwaukee Bucks
According to the chances of Bovada bookmakers, Orando is the most likely goal if Bucks actually moves Lillard.
Magic Orlando is the favorite of the landing of Damian Lillard, if he is not with Milwaukee Bucks next season, on @Bovadoofficial
Orlando Magic +150
Miami Heat +200
Los Angeles Lakers +450
Portland trailblazers +950
Toronto Raptors +950 pic.twitter.com/ft1ama9rya– NBAcentral (@Thedununkcentral) April 25, 2025
In second place on the board of the leaders, he was supposedly racing Lillard in 2023 before Milwaukee was finally passed on. As for the available salary, Miami is a more feasible trade partner, but, with the exception of full reconstruction, it is very unlikely that Bucks would be interested in such as Terry Rozier orrew Wiggins. The third team would almost certainly have to be involved.
If Orlando pressed on Dame, they would probably do it with the intention of installing it with the attackers Franz Wagner and Paulo Banchero, giving them a veteran who graduated from a huge gigantic three. Unless Bucks is satisfied with a package focused around Jalen Suggs – very unbelievable – magic would also have to turn on the broker. In every trade with Lillard, it seems certain that Horst would like a proven teenage talent, with the potential of stars, along with the draft election.
For now, such scenarios are only hypothetical. What merit they gain out of season, it may depend on whether Bucks can escape from Pacers in the first round. On Friday afternoon they are 5.5-point favorite home in the game 3.
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