{"id":1012235,"date":"2024-02-01T07:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T07:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=1012235"},"modified":"2024-02-01T08:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T08:42:28","slug":"damian-lillard-cheered-in-his-return-to-portland-after-offseason-trade-to-the-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/nba\/damian-lillard-cheered-in-his-return-to-portland-after-offseason-trade-to-the-bucks","title":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard cheered in his return to Portland after offseason trade to the Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) &#8212; Damian Lillard was greeted with a lengthy standing ovation by an appreciative Portland crowd when he was introduced for Milwaukee&#8217;s game against the Trail Blazers on Wednesday night. Lillard, who spent 11 seasons with the Blazers and still has a home in Portland, played his first game in the city since the offseason trade that sent him to the Bucks. The sellout crowd at the Moda Center feted Lillard with cheers. He responded with by applauding the fans and held up his hands in a heart shape before his Bucks teammates danced around him. In a news conference before the game, Lillard said his return was surreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) &#8212; Damian Lillard was greeted with a lengthy standing ovation by an appreciative Portland crowd when he was introduced for Milwaukee&#8217;s game against the Trail Blazers on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}