20 years from now, people are still going to be talking about Portland Trail Blazers superstar point guard Damian Lillard's deep game-winner over Paul George and the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2019 playoffs.
Lillard scored 50 points in Game 5 against the Thunder and hit the series-clinching shot at the buzzer over George.
The Blazers guard, who waved goodbye to the Thunder after hitting that epic 3-pointer and was mobbed by his teammates on the floor, says he waved goodbye like his son does, via Michael Lee of The Athletic:
Schröder had his back turned when Lillard punctuated his kill shot with a spontaneous, cold-blooded, goodbye wave to the Thunder. Lillard doesn’t usually flap his fingers into his palm when saying farewell but it came to him, as a retaliatory gesture to the “rock the baby” taunts Russell Westbrook and Schröder used throughout the series to fluster him.
“I waved like my son would wave,” Damian Lillard said of his 21-month-old, Damian Jr. “Like when babies do that.”
Lillard finished Game 5 shooting 17-of-33 from the field and 10-of-18 from beyond the arc. He was a man possessed in that series against the Thunder. Dame averaged 33.0 points in the five-game stretch while shooting 46.1 percent from the floor and an incredible 48.1 percent from the 3-point line.
The Blazers made it all the way to the Western Conference Finals in the 2019 playoffs, where they unfortunately got swept by the Golden State Warriors. It was still a memorable playoff run for Lillard and the Blazers, though.
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