{"id":81813,"date":"2025-07-22T08:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=81813"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:15:35","slug":"warriors-star-draymond-greens-reaction-to-damian-lillards-return-sums-it-all-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=81813","title":{"rendered":"Warriors star Draymond Green&#8217;s reaction to Damian Lillard&#8217;s return sums it all up"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.clutchpoints.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Damian-Lillard-and-Draymond-Green.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"United States Damian Lillard (left) and United States Draymond Green (right) celebrate with their gold medals during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Saitama Super Arena.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As they say, home is where the heart is, and Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green and Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard would definitely agree.<\/p>\n<p>Lillard is back in Rip City after being waived and stretched by the Milwaukee Bucks. While he&#8217;s likely to sit out the upcoming season due to an Achilles injury, he is more than elated to rejoin the Trail Blazers. During a media conference on Monday, the veteran guard expressed his gratitude for \u201cthe door being open\u201d even though he is sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot to me. Not only to play for this organization again\u2014I never not wanted to play for this organization\u2014but to be back in this community that I&#8217;m most familiar with. All the familiar faces. All the things I&#8217;ve been connected to, even during the time I wasn&#8217;t playing here the last two years, it all just feels right,\u201d said Lillard.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping tabs on Lillard&#8217;s return, Green summed up what everybody&#8217;s thinking on his Instagram Story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe backdrop just looks right,\u201d wrote the Warriors forward.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that Lillard and Green were drafted in the same class in 2012. They also won a gold medal together on Team USA in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-0ld Green sure knows how it feels to find a home in the NBA. He has only played for the Warriors in his 13-year career, helping them to four championships. His loyalty has made him one of the most beloved players in team history.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Lillard spent his first 11 years in the NBA in Portland before being traded to Milwaukee in 2023 in a three-team deal that also involved the Phoenix Suns. His two-season stint with the Bucks, however, was largely insignificant.<\/p>\n<p>When the chance to return to Portland arose, including the opportunity to mentor the Trail Blazers&#8217; young core similar to Green&#8217;s role on the Warriors, Lillard said it was a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually, when I have to make a decision, I put a lot of thought into it. I ask questions to the people around me, but this was a decision that wasn&#8217;t hard at all,\u201d added the nine-time All-Star, who agreed to a three-year deal worth $42 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors and the Trail Blazers have had some heated battles in the past. With Lillard&#8217;s return to Portland, everything feels right again.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green said what everybody&#8217;s thinking about Damian Lillard&#8217;s return to the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":81816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2581,9,10,45,1987],"class_list":["post-81813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-damian-lillard","tag-draymond-green","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Warriors star Draymond Green&#039;s reaction to Damian Lillard&#039;s return sums it all up - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=81813\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Warriors star Draymond Green&#039;s reaction to Damian Lillard&#039;s return sums it all up - 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