Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard had to bow out of his team’s Game 2 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the 2020 NBA Playoffs. A finger injury cut his night short in an otherwise dismal affair.
After the game, Dwight Jaynes of NBCSports Northwest asked Trail Blazers Head Coach Terry Stotts why the team’s most critical player was still in the game with 1:44 left in the third period, Portland down 30. That prompted this response:
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