The final stretch of days leading up to Damian Lillard’s trade to the Bucks involved the former Blazers guard being linked to the Raptors, and the chatter surrounding a potential Toronto deal picked up steam quickly.
While Lillard awaited word on how the situation would play out, he admitted that Raptors forward OG Anunoby pulled off a perfectly timed prank that left Lillard looking for answers.
“I was on the phone, and I just got a random text from OG [Anunoby] like, ‘Welcome to Toronto.’ … and he’s always like messing around, like joking and stuff like that,” Lillard told TNT’s Chris Haynes. “We trained together in the summer a little bit, and he texted me like, ‘Welcome to Toronto.’ So I was like, let me call this dude and see, and I finally called him—he didn’t answer, then he called me back, he was laughing and I was like, ‘Oh, O.K.’”
