Want to know about Damian Lillard’s effect on the city of Portland? Ask Blazer’s Edge podcaster Tara Bowen-Biggs. That’s what ESPN’s Kevin Van Valkenburg did in a piece on the aftermath of Lillard’s series-winning shot against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Van Valkenburg spends the first part of the article describing the razor-thin margin between Lillard and NBA immortality, which moments like the buzzer-beater help to thin.
In his seventh season with the Blazers, Lillard has long been one of the league’s most entertaining scorers -- lurking around the edges of superstardom, but never truly cementing his status there until he hit the shot that became the GIF Watched Round the World.