{"id":149765,"date":"2025-07-05T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/149765\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:24:13","slug":"is-there-a-chance-that-damian-lillard-could-be-an-ideal-target-for-the-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/149765\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a chance that Damian Lillard could be an ideal target for the Boston Celtics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some fans and analysts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Boston Celtics<\/a> are wary of a potential signing of former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/milwaukee-bucks\/15\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milwaukee Bucks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> point guard Damian Lillard, others see it as a potentially near-ideal paring of talents made possible by the extraordinary circumstances making such an outcome possible in the first place. Lillard, who was cut by the Bucks to make room for signing former <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indiana Pacers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Indiana Pacers<\/a> big man Myles Turner, had a massive hit on Milwaukee&#8217;s cap ahead of a season he will be out injured.<\/p>\n<p>But the move to waive the ex-Bucks floor general opens up a chance for a team to pay him a smaller offer in the present in order to have him on the team when he does return to the court &#8212; and for cheap. Is there a case to be made that Dame&#8217;s talent is too great to worry much about fit?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The folks behind the &#8220;Backyard Buckets&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip taking a closer look at how such a marriage of convenience might pan out. Check it out below!<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2025\/07\/05\/could-damian-lillard-be-an-ideal-target-for-the-celtics\/84479841007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Could Damian Lillard be an ideal target for the Celtics?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Could Damian Lillard be an ideal target for the Celtics?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some fans and analysts of the Boston Celtics are wary of a potential signing of former Milwaukee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,75,103,125,28651,126,102,121,3871,367,6,361],"class_list":{"0":"post-149765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-bucks","11":"tag-damian-lillard","12":"tag-extraordinary-circumstances","13":"tag-indiana-pacers","14":"tag-milwaukee","15":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","16":"tag-milwaukeebucks","17":"tag-myles-turner","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-the-bucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114802502340127994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149765","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=149765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}