Revealing the inside story of Lillard s return to the Trail Blazers! His first personal reunion is released, and he still wears No. 0 or ends his life in Portland

On July 18, 35-year-old Lillard returned to Portland with a new three-year, $42 million contract. After that, Lillard personally announced his return to the Trail Blazers and announced that he would continue to wear the Trail Blazers No. 0 jersey, and made his first statement after returning to his old club: Tear City.

In order to make room for salary to sign Miles Turner this summer, the Bucks bought out Lillard's contract using extended terms and paid Lillard $113 million in installments in five years. In other words, in the next five seasons, Lillard will receive a salary of $22.5 million from the Bucks each year.

Lillard was resigned and returned to his free self. It is reported that many teams such as the Warriors, Lakers, and Celtics have been in charge of their own interests. Among them, the Celtics are willing to give him many years of contracts, and Tatum has been actively recruiting Lillard; now Lillard has made a decision to return to the Trail Blazers as a free agent.

, According to famous reporter shams, Lillard signed a three-year, $42 million new contract with the Trail Blazers to return to Portland, which is expected to include player options and trade vetos for the 2027-28 season.

shams further reported that Lillard will use the 2025-26 season to recover from the Achilles tendon tear, and return to Portland where the team and his family and children live. This is the most important consideration for him. Although he received multiple middle-class contracts and basic salary quotes from competitive teams, he finally chose to go home.

Over the past few weeks, both Lillard and the Trail Blazers have shown great sincerity for this reunion. Lillard met with general manager Joe Cronin and head coach Chauncey Billups many times to build trust with each other and jointly promote the conclusion of this new contract. Chris Haynes, a famous reporter, reported that a few weeks ago, Portland general manager Joe Cronin went to Lillard's home, and the two settled and focused on promoting the contract, with the goal of giving Lillard a chance to retire as a Trail Blazers player.

Now through the contract between the Trail Blazers and the Bucks, Lillard will receive a salary of $70 million in the 2025-26 season, with a total salary of $141 million in the next two years; in 2027, he has player options and trade veto.

Lillard not only reposted the updates of his return to the Trail Blazers on social media, but also posted the locker of the players in the Trail Blazers locker room. Yang Hansen's No. 16 appeared on the screen, and the end of the video read "Reunion"; at the same time, Lillard officially announced that he would continue to wear the Trail Blazers No. 0 jersey, with the caption: Tear City.

Lillard spoke out for the first time after returning to the Trail Blazers, and Antetokounmpo, Trae Young and many American media liked him; Wade left a message and wrote: This is what it should be; Wade also tweeted: Lillard returned to where he should be, and everything went well.

2 years of Bucks' career ended, Lillard returned to the city he was most familiar with. He played 11 seasons for the Trail Blazers in 13 years. He is the Trail Blazers' scoring champion (19376 points) and the team's three-pointer (2387 three-pointers). During this period, he was selected as the All-Star 7 times, selected as the Best Team 7 times, and led the team into the playoffs 8 times. The US media hotly argued that Portland GOAT is back.