Let me get one thing clear from the start: I do not believe Damian Lillard ordered Bobby Portis to voice his displeasure with head coach Adrian Griffin. Lillard does not have a body of shock troopers on the roster to carry out his bidding.
But is it too far to suggest that Lillard glimpsed an opportunity to push the overall situation in his preferred direction and took it? I don’t think so.
In truth, we will probably never know who leaked to Chris Haynes that Portis, “passionately challenged,” Griffin. All we can do from the outside is run through a haphazard game of educated guessing.