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Damian Lillard’s Second Act In Portland Is More Than Just A Nice Story
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You’d be forgiven for briefly losing track of your place in linear time at the end of the third quarter of Tuesday night’s marquee matchup between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Portland Trail Blazers. How could this be 2026, with Damian Lillard nailing a quarter-ending buzzer-beater from the logo over a cadre of defenders? Clearly we had switched tracks and were now in the realm of Dame Time, or, barring the supernatural, 2019 again.
The Blazers coasted from there for a comfy 123-103 win, in which Lillard paced his team with 25 efficient points in just 24 minutes. Every part of that sentence would have been inconceivable as recently as 18 months ago.
