It’s an image many in Rip City are familiar with: Portland Trail Blazers star point guard Damian Lillard arm in arm with protestors, crossing the Morrison Bridge, standing up for Black lives. In a recent episode of the Talkin’ Blazers podcast, Lillard spoke with Dan Sheldon regarding his experience, according to Lindsey Wisniewski of NBC Sports Northwest.
“We were in quarantine and we were just in the house,” Lillard told Dan Sheldon on the Talkin’ Blazers podcast. “And you know it was viral, it was protests all over the country, and I was aware of the protests in Portland.