With the Doc Rivers regime underway, the Milwaukee Bucks continue their road trip out west with a visit to the Portland Trail Blazers. For Damian Lillard, it will be assuredly be an emotional rollercoaster mixing pride in the things he accomplished as a Blazer and, crucially, the life he spent over a decade building with the new chapter he began writing last summer. While neither he nor Blazers fans may have expected a homecoming like this, a sense of mutual respect and admiration is likely to dominate pre-game festivities.
Where We’re At
Milwaukee is 0-1 under Rivers’s command, although their first outing ended with a respectable final score in a 107-113 loss on the road to the defending-champion Denver Nuggets.