Damian Lillard silenced an Orlando heckler

Magic fans, next time maybe we should just keep quiet.

We knew going in that, with D.J. Augustin at the point, the Magic were going to have a hard time containing Damian Lillard. And the responsibility for failing to do so falls entirely on the Magic’s poor defensive performance in the Blazers 128-114 win.

But it turns out that Lillard’s explosive second-half performance, where he scored 34 of his 41 points, was motivated at least in part by a heckling Magic fan seated behind the bench.

“They had a guy behind their bench that kept running his mouth,” Lillard said during his postgame interview on the Blazers television broadcast. “He kept running his mouth and running his mouth and I told him,…