Three Trail Blazers cracked Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Players list for the upcoming 2019-20 season. This year, SI’s Rob Mahoney placed a trio of familiar faces inside the league-wide rankings.
Unsurprisingly, Damian Lillard was the top ranking Blazers player. Mahoney explained that Lillard’s penchant for balancing lead-guard duties with carrying the load when needed is truly special.
Damian Lillard walks that line as well as anyone in the league. When Lillard gets hot, his game burns brightest. There are few propositions more terrifying for a defense than the Blazers guard bounding around a high screen after making a few shots in a row.