MIAMI — For the Miami Heat, the second day of NBA free agency on Saturday became a case of a player lost ... and the potential for landing a superstar.
Amid the Heat continuing to work through the free-agency process, including the loss of guard Max Strus to the Cleveland Cavaliers and the addition of center Thomas Bryant from the Denver Nuggets, came the thunderbolt that Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard not only is seeking a trade, but that the Heat stand atop his wish list.
The Heat have been linked for weeks to Lillard, 32, who has watched the Blazers move toward a youth movement that included the drafting of projected prodigy Scott Henderson at No. 3 a week ago.
