Giannis, Damian Lillard, and the Need to Win Now in the NBA

Omar Zahran
7 min readOct 1, 2023

Milwaukee pushed all of its chips to the middle of the table to acquire the Blazers star, showing a commitment to winning today at the expense of the future. A tactic that has become more and more common in modern American sports

It has been nearly 4 months since All-Star point guard Damian Lillard requested a trade from the Portland Trail Blazers. The saga that…

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Omar Zahran

Freelance sports writer fascinated by the stories that our favorite teams and athletes present to us