Following a complicated two-year tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks, Damian Lillard is finally heading back home to the Portland Trail Blazers. Lillard injured his Achilles late in the season, thus leading the Bucks to make the controversial decision to waive-and-stretch him.

The three-year contract that brought Damian Lillard back to Portland contains a rare no-trade clause. In a mailbag column, Sean Highkin of Rose Garden Report (subscriber link) speculates on why the Trail Blazers were willing to include it.