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Miami Heat's Trade Offer For Damian Lillard Is Reportedly "Best On The Table"

ESPN's Brian Windhorst believes the Miami Heat have put together best package for Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard

Shandel Richardson

Miami Heat's Trade Offer For Damian Lillard Is Reportedly "Best On The Table"
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With teams starting to back off trade talks for Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard, the Miami Heat are considered the best option. 

ESPN's Brian Windhorst said during an appearance on "NBA Today" that the Heat are likely the only team to offer the Trail Blazers a trade package.  

"As I look across the league and have conversations with executives and agents, I can't identify another team that is seriously making an offer for Damian Lillard at this point," Windhorst said. "My belief is that the Heat can't either."

It means the Heat are in the driver's seat if a move for Lillard is made. The only holdup is the Blazers deciding if the Heat's deal is worth Lillard, a seven-time All-Star. 

"While people can look at what the Heat's offer might be and scoff at it, if their offer is the only one on the table, it's the best one on the table," Windhorst said. "And the fact that Portland isn't going forward with anything is a verification of that." 

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star.  TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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