Portland Trail Blazers floor general Damian Lillard and former Boston Celtics (and now Portland) point guard Jrue Holiday will forever be connected in how Holiday ended up being moved to the Celtics by way of the Blazers to make the failed Milwaukee Bucks – Dame experiment happen, only to add another title to Holiday’s resume with Boston.
But it turns out that the two ironic Trail Blazers teammates of the present also share some surprising if a bit mundane history many thought might have been some sort of conspiratorial talk when the pair were seen on the court last season chatting about some unknown topic. It turns out it is the same sort of conversation one tends to have in everyday life with whoever is in charge of a malfunctioning utility — if with some extraordinary participants.
KOIN News Sports Anchor Brenna Greene caught up with Lillard at a recent media availability for Lillard as he returned to his home market, and Dame shed some light on an in-game chat that had sparked speculation as to what the duo had been talking about.
“When I lived in Milwaukee, I rented his house for two years so we talked a lot,” explained Lillard. “I was complaining to him about the Wi-Fi.”
“There’s a clip online of like I shake his hand, we played them in Boston, we had an interaction and people were like, ‘What (is going on there)?,’ And we were literally talking about his Wi-Fi at his house,” he added. Sometimes, it seems, a cigar is just a cigar — and WiFi can be a pain even for NBA stars.
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