Damian Lillard on joining Golden State Warriors: ‘Hell no’

When he was asked about potential going home to play for the Golden State Warriors to continue the NBA’s superteam trend, Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard responded with an emphatic no.

Damian Lillard — or Dame DOLLA as he’s known on the mic — is one of the more active Twitter users among the NBA’s stars. Lillard has over a million followers on Twitter and usually responds to quite a few them before, during and after the NBA season.

One topic that came up recently on Lillard’s timeline was the topic of going back home (a la LeBron James) to Oakland, where Lillard was born (and part of the reason he wears the No. 0).

When Lillard was asked by a Twitter user if he would consider a homecoming of sorts and join Oakland’s own Golden State Warriors, Lillard responded with just two words.

The hilarious part of Lillard’s tweet came from a different Twitter user that replied to Lillard that he’s going to lose in the playoffs for the next 10 years.

Here’s Lillard’s response to that:

Just like the Kevin Durant tweets before and after he decided to leave Oklahoma City and join the Warriors, Lillard’s tweets will probably be put in the back of a vault somewhere and then dug out when Lillard becomes an unrestricted free agent after his five-year, $139 million deal ends after the 2020-21 season.

To be realistic in the situation, the Warriors have the best shooting backcourt in NBA history with Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, so Lillard coming off the bench in a few years doesn’t seem like a probable outcome.

However, unless Lillard and his guard partner C.J. McCollum are able to bring in a prominent name or two to Portland, Lillard looking elsewhere for a new team might not be too crazy of a thought to chase a title or two.

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