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The Portland Trail Blazers finally saw their unbeaten start to the season come to an end after the Miami Heat blew the game wide open in the second half en route to a 119-98 win at Moda Center. While Blazers fans will undoubtedly be disappointed at the result of the game, they will be more […]

Trading away CJ McCollum last season signaled a changing of the guard for Damian Lillard the Portland Trail Blazers. It was a huge shakeup that felt necessary after several years of coming up short. But it was also made easier to stomach thanks to the emergence of rising star Anfernee Simons. With the Blazers starting […]

The NBA season is underway, and the Portland Trail Blazers have gotten off to a red-hot start. Portland has started the season 4-0, and they look like an extremely competitive team in the Western Conference. They had a very eventful offseason to build an improved roster around star Damian Lillard. The Blazers went out and […]

Damian Lillard had nothing but praise for Anfernee Simons after the Portland Trail Blazers youngster exploded in the third quarter of their contest against the Denver Nuggets. Simons only had seven points in the first half, but an incredibly hot shooting streak saw him drop 22 points in the penultimate period alone. He made six […]

Chauncey Billups’ first season as the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers was mired with a plethora of problems that put a damper on their 2021-22 season. Damian Lillard battled abdominal issues all season long before getting shut down following abdominal surgery, CJ McCollum was diagnosed with a collapsed lung before he was traded […]

The 2022-23 NBA season is just days old, but Jerami Grant and Damian Lillard have already made a notable statement for the Portland Trail Blazers. Grant hit the game-winning shot and Lillard scored 41 points as the Blazers moved to 3-0 with a 106-104 road victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. JERAMI GRANT FOR THE […]

Anfernee Simons came up clutch for the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday after he banked the game-winner in overtime against the Phoenix Suns. It seems, however, that the Rip City faithful need to thank Damian Lillard as well. Of course who could forget Lillard’s 41 points in the contest? He was basically the reason they […]

New Orleans Pelicans guard CJ McCollum knows what his former Portland Trail Blazers teammate Damian Lillard is capable of, so much so that he has a rather funny challenge for him. Speaking with Hoops Hype recently, McCollum talked about Lillard’s commitment to the Blazers and how he is building a “lasting legacy” in Portland as […]

With 1.2 seconds left in overtime, Portland Trailblazers center Jusuf Nurkic fouled Deandre Ayton to send the Phoenix Sun’s center to the free throw line. The Blazers had just taken a two-point lead following Anfernee Simons drilling a hook shot but Ayton had a chance to send the game to a second overtime. Damian Lillard, […]

The Brooklyn Nets fans at the Barclays Center did all they can to get the New Orleans Pelicans off their game on opening night. This included some pretty savage chants aimed at Pelicans star CJ McCollum, who himself admits to being affected by the jeers. At one point in the game, Brooklyn supporters started with […]

Damian Lillard doesn’t have time for doubters. The Portland Trail Blazers star endured a difficult season last year playing through a painful abdominal injury while watching as his squad fell short of the playoffs. Well, Lillard spoke to the media on Tuesday and delivered this fiery message to his doubters, per Sean Highkin on Twitter. […]

The Portland Trail Blazers made a nice splash this offseason, signing a number of different players, including defensive cog Gary Payton II, who just won an NBA title with the Golden State Warriors. Unfortunately, he’s also been dealing with a lingering core injury after a procedure in the summer and is still not really to […]

Damian Lillard has been the poster child for franchise loyalty in an era all about player empowerment. But the Portland Trail Blazers point guard did take a meeting with LeBron James last offseason that challenged his resolve even just a bit. In a recent piece by The Ringer’s Logan Murdock, the Blazers guard detailed his […]

Damian Lillard proved his commitment to the Portland Trail Blazers with a two-year max extension this past offseason. However, the Rip City faithful may have head coach Chauncey Billups to thank for convincing Dame to stay. The veteran guard had options for his future. He had a chance to join the Los Angeles Lakers before […]

Draymond Green has somewhat emerged as Public Enemy No. 1 right now following his physical altercation with Golden State Warriors teammate Jordan Poole. Most folks might say that he brought it upon himself after what they consider to be an unwarranted sucker punch on one of his younger teammates. For his part, however, Portland Trail […]

Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers took on the Los Angeles Clippers in the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle for their preseason opener. And as expected, the raucous Seattle crowd made itself felt very quickly. Chants of “SuperSonics” reverberated throughout the arena, as fans clearly miss the franchise that was surprisingly relocated to Oklahoma […]

SEATTLE, WA – When the LA Clippers landed Norman Powell and Robert Covington at the 2022 NBA trade deadline, many were caught off guard. The Portland Trail Blazers parted with a handful of weapons for Damian Lillard, and with Powell as well as Covington headed to Los Angeles, the Clippers were able to bolster their […]

Damian Lillard has done so much for the Portland Trail Blazers franchise in the 10 years that he’s been with the team. At this point, it’s only right that the six-time All-Star also be asked for his own creative input with regard to the direction the team will take from a branding standpoint. The Blazers […]

Portland Trail Blazers superstar Damian Lillard has been one of the best scorers in the NBA for a long time now. So much so that he is likely to surpass Naismith Hall of Fame player Clyde Drexler for the most points in franchise history this season. Entering the 2022-2023 season, Lillard is just 531 points […]

Damian Lillard is a fan of WWE. He once partnered with Ric Flair for a colorway of his Adidas Dame 7s, released a run of Dame 6s with a “Dame 3:16” motif to pay tribute to the Texas Rattlesnake, and was even a downloadable character in WWE 2K Battlegrounds. So naturally, with more and more […]

Portland Trail Blazers superstar Damian Lillard committed his future to the franchise this past summer, signing a two-year, $122 million extension that will keep him in RIP City through the 2026-27 season. He’s come a long way from being selected in the 2012 NBA Draft out of Weber State, a school not known for its […]

The Portland Trail Blazers missed the playoffs last season after their star point guard, Damian Lillard, suffered an abdominal injury, requiring surgery that caused him to miss significant time. The 2013 unanimous Rookie of the Year, Lillard is now 32 years old, and as much as Blazers fans would hate to admit it, time is […]

Shot-blocking, timely perimeter shots, and a good locker room presence: these are what come to mind when the name Serge Ibaka is brought up. An NBA champion with the Toronto Raptors back in 2019, Ibaka added yet another milestone to his name: surpassing Damian Lillard on the music charts. So move over Dame D.O.L.L.A, there’s […]

Damian Lillard is not a superstar. He’s also not on the same level as Kyrie Irving. These were the statements Bleacher Report’s Taylor Rooks made in a recent interview with Jayson Tatum, and her scorching hot take has garnered quite a bit of reaction. The mean streets of Twitter went all in on Rooks for […]

Boston Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum recently went on a tell-all interview with Bleacher Report’s Taylor Rooks. The All-Star forward dropped a handful of truth bombs that have already made all sorts of headlines: from his undisclosed injury in the playoffs to his “miserable” state after losing to Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors in […]

The clamor for the Portland Trail Blazers ownership group to sell the team has been slowly increasing in volume of late. The latest move to curtail the fan experience might push it even further that direction. The Blazers are reportedly planning to keep their broadcast team in Portland for away games. Instead of calling the […]

The Portland Trail Blazers entered the 2022 offseason under a ton of pressure to deliver on Damian Lillard’s wishes for a competitive squad. Now that the 2022 NBA draft and much of the offseason are pretty much done, the Blazers didn’t do too badly. To be honest, the Blazers made every effort to regain their […]

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard wants young hoopers today to know that there’s more to playing basketball. That is why he is doing his camp different to ensure that kids are well prepared mentally. Speaking during his Formula Zero camp, Lillard shared the common issue among young players today on how they lack humility. […]

Portland Trail Blazers superstar Damian Lillard wants kids to learn more than just basketball in his camp. Besides skills, he aspires them to have the characteristics needed to navigate their professional careers and even adulthood in general. On Friday while speaking on his Formula Zero camp–which hosts some collegiate and high school basketball players–Lillard criticized […]

Unlike a lot of players in the NBA, Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard has made his name in the shoe game with Adidas rather than Nike. Dame has his own signature sneaker and on Thursday, he offered a sneak peek into his latest release on IG:   View this post on Instagram   A […]

Damian Lillard’s desire to win a ring in Portland rather than team up with other superstars has drawn varying takes from fans and players alike. The latest to weigh in on Dame’s grind with the Trail Blazers is former NBA star JR Smith. Speaking during an appearance on Gilbert Arenas’ podcast, Smith admitted that he […]

Damian Lillard has expressed his intentions to stay in Portland with the Trail Blazers. His loyalty is admirable, but his health has been a question mark over the past few years. But Lillard recently dropped a truth bomb on his health heading into the 2022-2023 NBA season, via the Rose Garden Report. “I feel 100 […]

Damian Lillard has been an iron man for the Portland Trail Blazers for most of his career. He has suffered a few injuries here and there, but he never missed significant time for the most part. That all changed in 2021, however, when Lillard suffered an abdominal injury. Dame would miss a huge chunk of […]

The Portland Trail Blazers are the 2022 Summer League champions, but superstar guard Damian Lillard wasn’t aware of it until Trendon Watford showed him his MVP trophy. Lillard is away vacationing with his family, and so he only learned about the championship during an IG Live with Anfernee Simons. Watford hopped in on the stream […]

Portland Trail Blazers superstar Damian Lillard wants to be an all-time great. This is exactly why the six-time All-Star is channeling the greatest of all time, Muhammad Ali, in a recent offseason workout clip that has now gone viral. Here’s a look at Lillard putting on his boxing gloves to get a bit of mitt […]

Is this the best team the Portland Trail Blazers ever assembled around Damian Lillard? That might be a bold statement given Lillard played with LaMarcus Aldridge and reached the Western Conference Finals with CJ McCollum, but the Blazers are aggressively retooling around Lillard and hoping to become a legitimate contender. The team acquired Jerami Grant […]

Portland Trail Blazers superstar Damian Lillard has chimed in on the hotly contested GOAT debate. In his mind, Dame has no doubt as to who the greatest of all time is. For Lillard, it has to be none other than Michael Jordan. The Blazers stud explained his reason behind picking Jordan as his own personal […]

Damian Lillard is the epitome of loyalty in the NBA. The six-time All-Star has spent his entire career with the Portland Trail Blazers, and just recently he signed another big-money extension that will keep him in Portland through 2027. At this point, it’s hard to imagine Lillard leaving the Blazers at any point in his […]

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard officially signed his two-year $120 million contract extension on Saturday. He then held a press conference to address his new contract. During the press conference, Lillard was asked if he ever considered leaving Portland during his ten seasons with the team. “I think last summer there was a time, […]