“Damian Lillard Hasn’t Been With Another Motherf**ker That Made Him”: Kevin Garnett Urges Dame Dolla to Move On From Portland

Kevin Garnett believes he was too late to move away from Minnesota, he doesn’t want Damian Lillard to do the same

Damian Lillard has been of the best point guards in the NBA as soon as he made his debut ten years back. The 6’2 Weber State guard has been a true sensation with his jump shots and is a threat right at the moment he enters the opponent’s side of the court.

The man with no specific range in his three-point shots made 6x All-Star and 6x All-NBA Teams while leading his Portland Trail Blazers to eight post-seasons.

The exception was his first and last NBA seasons, and the latter happened because of his injury which kept him out for more than half a season.

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But one of the NBA’s greatest 75 players of all time, has not even been to an NBA Finals in his career and so, The Big Ticket thinks it is about time that Dame Dolla joins a superstar big man and hunts for glory as he did.

Kevin Garnett wants to see Damian Lillard team up with someone who could take him to the next level

Garnett, like many other loyal superstars, waited an eternity for the Minnesota Timberwolves to team him up with another superstar and then finally, after 12 years of trying to lead them to a championship, stormed out to Boston as soon as he got the chance.

One of the greatest power forwards of all time still regrets his decision and thinks about what if he had joined Paul Pierce and the Celtics 4-5 years earlier.

He wants the 32-year-old to do it now before it’s too late and he wastes his prime years in Portland. He talked about it recently, in his typical KG style, on a special crossover podcast of the KG Certified and All The Smoke.

Can Dame do it with the Blazers? Or should this season be his last ride?

With the addition of some new names in the offseason and the mid-season move of CJ McCollum, the Blazers have provided their superstar with arguably the best team he has ever had.

Jeramy Grant, Gary Payton II, and Josh Hart will bring a lot for Dame on both ends of the floor. And already having Anfernee Simons, and Jusuf Nurkic would mean Portland will contend for the Championship and nothing less.

But if somehow, coach Chauncey Billups and Lillard fail to get themselves at least to an NBA Finals or even a Conference Finals, the latter will seriously look at other options to get what he deserves.

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Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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