Portland Trail Blazers star Dame Lillard said to Yahoo Sports that he will play only if his team will have a real chance to reach the playoffs when the season resumes.<\/p>\n
“If we come back and they’re just like, ‘We’re adding a few games to finish the regular season,’ and they’re throwing us out there for meaningless games and we don’t have a true opportunity to get into the playoffs, I’m going to be with my team because I’m a part of the team. But I’m not going to be participating. I’m telling you that right now. And you can put that [expletive] in there,” Lillard told Yahoo Sports<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Before the suspension the Blazers were ninth in the Western Conference standings with 29 wins over 66 games, 3.5 games behind the Memphis Grizzlies for the last playoff spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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