{"id":141432,"date":"2025-07-02T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/141432\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:17:10","slug":"report-warriors-in-touch-with-damian-lillard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/141432\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Warriors \u2018in touch\u2019 with Damian Lillard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"CmAEKA\">Per Marc J. Spears of Andscape, Damian Lillard \u2014 formerly from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brewhoop.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> \u2014 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldenstateofmind.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> have been \u201cin touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spears also reporting that the Warriors have been in touch on Dame. Spears adds Lillard will take his time but there&#8217;s the possible lure of playing close tow here he grew up in the Bay area <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sdCi4CQ4hc\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/sdCi4CQ4hc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ohm Youngmisuk (@NotoriousOHM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NotoriousOHM\/status\/1940205270610944411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"xluGyP\">Lillard \u2014 who suffered a season-ending Achilles tendon tear during the Bucks\u2019 2025 playoff run and is expected to miss the entirety of the 2025-26 season \u2014 was recently waived by the Bucks and is having his $113 million contract stretched in order to make room for Myles Turner, who they signed to a four-year, $107 million contract.<\/p>\n<p id=\"vyvmfh\">The prospect of bringing Lillard home to his Bay Area roots is enticing; equally enticing is the prospect of pairing him up with Steph Curry. Both are considered two of this generation\u2019s deadliest long-range shooters and offensive weapons. However, by the time Lillard will be fully recovered, he will be 36-years old, while Curry will be 38. Two aging 6\u20192\u201d guards helming the backcourt doesn\u2019t bode well for the Warriors\u2019 prospects despite both of their pedigrees.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9TJAGM\">There\u2019s also the valid question of how Lillard will look like post-injury. While Achilles tears aren\u2019t as damning as they were a couple of years ago, Lillard\u2019s age should give the Warriors pause in terms of how much of his former self he can recover.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Per Marc J. Spears of Andscape, Damian Lillard \u2014 formerly from the Milwaukee Bucks \u2014 and the Golden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,111,28,309,479,164,4025,4024,97,112,1223,6,1225,169,381,17,27481,255,1224,543],"class_list":{"0":"post-141432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-damian","10":"tag-front-page","11":"tag-golden","12":"tag-golden-state","13":"tag-golden-state-warriors","14":"tag-goldenstate","15":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-lillard","18":"tag-mind","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-rumors-news","21":"tag-of","22":"tag-report","23":"tag-state","24":"tag-touch","25":"tag-warriors","26":"tag-warriors-news","27":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114783128436437672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}