{"id":173324,"date":"2025-07-15T23:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/173324\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T23:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:22:12","slug":"milwaukee-bucks-risk-losing-damian-lillard-as-the-star-now-open-to-joining-boston-celtics-after-past-rejection-nba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/173324\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks risk losing Damian Lillard as the star now open to joining Boston Celtics after past rejection | NBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MilwaukeeDamian Lillard might join Boston Celtics (Image via Getty Images) When NBA<\/a> icon Damian Lillard first asked the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> for a trade, it was implied that he possibly wanted to play for the Miami Heat. He was clear from the start that he had no interest in playing for the Boston Celtics. He reportedly showed no interest in joining the team during that process, which ultimately resulted in his trade to the Milwaukee Bucks. However, now the situation might change in favor of the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n

Damian Lillard reportedly interested in Boston Celtics move as Milwaukee Bucks face uncertain offseason<\/p>\n

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Damian Lillard is a remarkable player (Image via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

It was a huge surprise when the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> opted to stretch and waive Damian Lillard. In the end, the team management took a chance. However, now the situation might change as he may rejoin his former team. According to a recent Boston Herald story, Damian Lillard<\/a> is “more receptive” to joining the Boston Celtics than he was in 2023, which isn’t good for the Milwaukee Bucks. They wrote in their journal: \u201cLastly, though Lillard reportedly is more receptive to joining Boston than he was in 2023, when the Celtics were linked to him before trading for Holiday, it\u2019s unclear where his priorities lie this offseason. The Celtics can offer Lillard a minimum contract, or a $5.7 million taxpayer mid-level exception if they make additional moves to dip back below the second apron of the luxury tax, which they exceeded with their recent signings of Garza and Minott.\u201dOn the other hand, Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe recently reported that the NBA player would now be amenable to joining the Boston Celtics<\/a>. He wrote:\u201cOne team Lillard has interest in joining is the Boston Celtics.. And the Celtics reportedly have shared interest in teaming up with the veteran point guard.\u201dHe continued:\u201cWhen Lillard was seeking a trade from the Portland Trail Blazers two years ago, he wasn\u2019t interested in a trade to Boston.. Now, Lillard has some interest in the Celtics, in part because of the close friendship he\u2019s built with star forward Jayson Tatum.\u201dThis isn’t ideal for the Milwaukee Bucks since they don’t want to lose another star player to the Boston Celtics. However, he would be a fantastic addition to his former team at a very low cost if he were even 75% of his former self. Also read: Myles Turner pens heartfelt goodbye to Indiana Pacers fans after surprise Milwaukee Bucks move ends 10-year Indy journey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard might join Boston Celtics (Image via Getty Images) When NBA icon Damian Lillard first asked the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,31976,103,31980,31978,125,31977,31979,102,121,9638,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-173324","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-interest-in-lillard","10":"tag-bucks","11":"tag-bucks-risk-losing-lillard","12":"tag-celtics-potential-roster-changes","13":"tag-damian-lillard","14":"tag-damian-lillard-trade-news","15":"tag-lillard-relationship-with-celtics","16":"tag-milwaukee","17":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","18":"tag-milwaukee-bucks-offseason","19":"tag-milwaukeebucks","20":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114859825454186774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173324","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=173324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}