PORTLAND, Ore. -- When he stepped out of the locker room, Damian Lillard adjusted his crimson vest and navigated the thin corridor in the belly of the Moda Center en route to the podium for his postgame press conference.
The hallway, no more than 10 feet wide, is packed with people postgame -- friends, families, teammates, team employees, agents, reporters -- and it's compounded by the fact the Denver Nuggets locker room is right next to the podium room. There always seems to be a crowd around Lillard anywhere he goes, and even after the game is over, never is a Nugget too far away.