Jrue Holiday: 'The Most Important Thing is to Win'
Holiday spoke with reporters for the first time since last month's trade from Boston.
📍TUALATIN, Ore. — In the five weeks since the Trail Blazers agreed to the trade that sent Anfernee Simons to Boston for Jrue Holiday, as much as been made of Holiday's moving logistics as it has the basketball reasons for the move.
It took a month for Holiday to finally speak to reporters for the first time as a Blazer because he was going back and forth between Los Angeles, where his family lives permanently, and Portland, where they've been house-hunting.
And Damian Lillard revealed last week that, after he and Holiday were traded for each other two years ago, he rented Holiday's house in Milwaukee, and the wi-fi in the home left something to be desired.
"The wi-fi wasn't that bad," Holiday said Tuesday as he wrapped up his media availability.
The personal and family aspects have been at the forefront since the trade, just like they have for Lillard since news broke last weekend that he was coming back to Portland. Holiday's kids and Lillard's kids are around the same age (he spent most of Tuesday's session keeping one eye on his four-year-old son, Hendrix, who was on his lap fiddling with a Gatorade bottle), and he spoke of his excitement about having a teammate with the same family priorities.
But there was also basketball to discuss, and Holiday had a lot to say about the trade, what he has left at 35 years old and the conversations he's had with Joe Cronin and Chauncey Billups about his role.
