Damian Lillard takes his birthday pretty seriously. Born on the July 15, 1990, the 6-3 point guard typically rents out a venue in downtown Portland sometime around the middle of his birthday month to throw a party celebrating another trip around the sun. Friends and Lillard’s extended family are always in attendance, seeing as how it’s one of the few times of the year in which he has some time to entertain off the court.
But this year, there was no Lillard birthday bash. No acquaintances trying to get added to the list at the last second, no busses full of Lillard’s cousins, aunts and uncles party-hopping from one location to the next.