Damian Lillard did all he could do. The rest of us? Maybe we could have done just a little bit more.
The 6-3 guard in his ninth season out of Weber State, averaging 29.8 points on 45 percent shooting, 7.7 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 1.1 steals while leading the Trail Blazers to a 18-10 so far this season, good for fourth-best record in the West and the fifth-best in the NBA, finished tied with Dallas guard Luka Doncic for second in voting for All-Star starters for the 2021 All-Star Game.
But Lillard lost out on the fan vote, which is the tiebreaker for All-Star starters, to Doncic, and thus, will have to wait to be selected as a reserve for the exhibition, which will take place in Atlanta on March 7.