Damian Lillard is the main goodie of the NBA. There are at least 15 reasons to love the Portland leaderThe Goodie is the hardest status in the NBA.
A player should be an example to his teammates and regularly exceed the expectations of experts, but at the same time not bore fans with eternal victories or chewing a mouthpiece.
His basketball must be aesthetic and entertaining. But without the constant isolation and attempts to beg for the right to free throws.
He must crush his sworn enemies, but in no case do this on Twitter or Instagram.
Such a basketball player simply has to know how to communicate with the media, and has no right to throw words down the drain. And his favorite word when talking to journalists is “loyalty”.
Portland leader Damian Lillard is the most suitable for this status today. And there are at least 15 reasons to love him.
First, Lillard has dragged Portland back to the playoffs . Gritting his teeth, through the play-in, but the team from Oregon left the impudent young "Memphis" and the "Phoenix" overclocked at Disney behind. For Lillard and company, this is the seventh straight playoff.
The Trail Blazers have had the toughest season in 7 years. The loss of Nurkich and regular injuries to the rest of the players forced Terry Stotts to improvise almost the entire season - in every third game of the regular season, Portland had a new starting five (22 in total).
But even with a negative balance of victories and defeats, the Oregonians still managed to climb into the top eight in the West.
And all thanks to the fact that Lillard is able to break NBA records in hard matches . In the last three games of the 2019/20 regular season, he has amassed 154 points: 51 for Philadelphia, 61 for Dallas, 42 for Brooklyn. The total difference with which Portland won these meetings was only 7 points.
Lillard is the Bubble's MVP and the second most possession player.
Last season, Dame helped Carmelo Anthony find a second life . The Portland leader wanted to recruit Melo to the team in 2017 (
https://ua.tribuna.com/basketball/1055558878.html), campaigned for the veteran last summer, and in November 2019 happily accepted him into his team. Lillard's attitude towards Anthony as a senior respected comrade allowed the latter to successfully restart his career.
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