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Justin Quinn

Boston’s Jayson Tatum has reportedly been ‘knocking on that door’ of a potential Damian Lillard trade

Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum might have been being strategic about the grief he gave the Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard for saying he did not want to play in the city of Boston last month based on reporting from ESPN’s Marc Spears on a recent episode of “NBA Today”. “I’m hearing Jayson Tatum is knocking on that door now too to figure out a way to get (Lillard) to come to Boston,” said Spears via MassLive’s Brian Robb.

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Such rumbles match up with what we have recently heard from “This League Uncut’s” Chris Haynes, who reported that Boston was among teams that “called out to reach out to see what it would take” to make a Lillard deal go down. It is not clear how serious Tatum’s inquiry was or if it was coordinated with whatever the front office might have been doing.

It is also unclear how serious the Celtics have been about such a trade given the substantial ask it would likely require to even get in the running for the coveted free agent.

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