Damian Lillard played college basketball for the Weber State Wildcats and earned third-team All-American honors in 2012.
67 Facts About Damian Lillard
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In October 2021, Damian Lillard was honored as one of the league's greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
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Damian Lillard won a gold medal on the 2020 US Olympic team in Tokyo.
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Damian Lillard sought to transfer when his coach did not return to the team.
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Damian Lillard went on to play for coach Orlando Watkins at Oakland High School, where he was First Team All-League his junior and senior years.
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Over his junior campaign, Damian Lillard averaged 19.4 points a night.
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Damian Lillard chose to attend Weber State in Utah in part because he wanted to get away from his violent Oakland neighborhood.
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Damian Lillard had received competing offers from schools including Wichita State, Saint Mary's and San Diego State.
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Widely regarded as the top point guard prospect in the country, Damian Lillard decided to skip his senior season to enter the 2012 NBA draft.
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Damian Lillard finished his college career as the No 2 scorer in Weber State history and the No 5 scorer in Big Sky history.
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Damian Lillard completed his degree in professional sales from Weber State University in May 2015.
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Damian Lillard was selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers.
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Damian Lillard became the first Trail Blazer to win an event at the NBA All-Star Weekend, winning the Skills Challenge.
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Damian Lillard participated in the Rising Stars Challenge during All-Star weekend and finished with 18 points, three rebounds and five assists in a game-high 28 minutes.
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Damian Lillard finished fifth in the NBA in 3-pointers made, 12th in points per game, tied for 16th in assists per game and tied for 23rd in free throw percentage.
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Damian Lillard was one of 10 NBA players to score 1,500 points, and he led all rookies in scoring, assists, field goals and free throws.
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Damian Lillard joined Oscar Robertson and Allen Iverson as the only rookies in NBA history to tally in excess of 1,500 points and 500 assists for a season.
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Damian Lillard became the fourth Trail Blazer in franchise history to win NBA Rookie of the Year honors and one of two to ever finish a season with at least 1,500 points and 500 assists.
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Damian Lillard started all 82 games for the second straight year and averaged 20.7 points, 5.6 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game.
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In Game 6 of the series, Damian Lillard became the first player to make a buzzer-beating shot to win a playoff series since Utah's John Stockton against Houston in 1997.
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Damian Lillard had a series-best game in Game 4 with a 25-point effort, helping the Trail Blazers win their sole game of the series.
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At the season's end, Damian Lillard was named to the All-NBA Third Team.
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Damian Lillard averaged career highs in points, rebounds, steals, and field goal percentage, but averaged a career-low 34 percent from three-point range.
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On February 8,2015, Damian Lillard was selected as a replacement for the injured Blake Griffin in the 2015 NBA All-Star Game.
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Damian Lillard shot 16 percent from three-point range during the series, hitting just 5-of-31 including going 0-of-6 in Game 1.
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On July 9,2015, Damian Lillard signed a five-year, $120 million contract extension with the Trail Blazers.
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On October 28,2015, Damian Lillard recorded 21 points and 11 assists in a season-opening win over the New Orleans Pelicans.
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Over his first 300 games in the NBA, Damian Lillard averaged 21.2 points and 6.2 assists per game.
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Damian Lillard had his 400th assist of the season, making him the first Trail Blazer with 400-plus assists in each of his first four seasons.
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Damian Lillard became the third Blazer to average 25-plus points, joining Drexler and Kiki Vandeweghe.
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Damian Lillard amassed a team-record 695 points in the Blazers' first 25 games of the season, eclipsing Clyde Drexler's previous mark of 681 in 1988.
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Damian Lillard ranked third in the NBA in scoring and tied for fourth in three-pointers made to go with 6.0 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 1.44 steals in 16 games.
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Damian Lillard became the fifth Blazer to score 2,000-plus points in a season.
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Damian Lillard finished the game on 2,575 career assists, moving him past Rod Strickland into fourth place on Portland's career assists list.
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Damian Lillard joined Clyde Drexler and Terry Porter as the only players in franchise history in the top 10 in scoring and top five in assists.
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Damian Lillard moved into seventh in franchise history in scoring with 9,753 points, passing Geoff Petrie.
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Damian Lillard became the eighth player to get 10,000 points and 2,500 assists in his first six seasons, joining Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Larry Bird, Nate Archibald, Pete Maravich, Dave Bing and Oscar Robertson.
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Damian Lillard scored 22 points in the third quarter before sitting out the entire fourth quarter.
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Damian Lillard shot 16 of 26 from the field with eight 3-pointers to go with 10-of-10 free throws.
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Damian Lillard passed Geoff Petrie's record of 30.4 points in March 1971.
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Damian Lillard never scored more than 20 in the series and was held below that three times.
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Additionally, Damian Lillard scored in double figures in his 184th consecutive game, breaking a tie with Clyde Drexler for the franchise record.
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Damian Lillard placed 6th in the 2019 MVP race, receiving 69 of the 1,010 available points.
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Damian Lillard returned to play in the last four Blazers' games before the NBA hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic; during this span, he averaged 20.8 points, 3.8 rebounds, 6 assists, and 1.8 steals per contest while shooting 40 percent from the field, 41.2 percent on 3-pointers, and 87.5 percent at the free-throw line.
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On June 30,2020, Damian Lillard was selected to be the cover athlete for NBA 2K21.
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Damian Lillard placed 8th in the 2020 MVP race, receiving 23 of the 1,010 available points.
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On February 17,2021, Damian Lillard scored 43 points and tied a career-high 16 assists in a win against the New Orleans Pelicans.
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Damian Lillard became one of only 12 players in NBA history to have 40 points and 15 assists in a game.
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Damian Lillard placed 7th in the 2021 MVP race, receiving 38 of the 1,010 available points.
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Damian Lillard became one of eight players all-time to score at least 40 points twice in his team's first three games of the season, a list that includes Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan.
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Damian Lillard joined James Harden and Stephen Curry as the only three players over the past 10 seasons with 10 or more 50-point games.
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Damian Lillard became just the fifth player in NBA history to score 60 points at least four times in the regular season, joining a group that includes Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, James Harden and Michael Jordan.
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Damian Lillard has 15 games with 50 or more points, sixth-most in NBA history.
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Damian Lillard wears the jersey number No 0, representative for the letter 'O' and his journey in life; from Oakland, to Ogden, and now Oregon.
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Damian Lillard's brother Houston, who earned a football scholarship to Southeast Missouri State after playing football in the junior college level at Laney College, is an Indoor Football League quarterback.
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Damian Lillard established a RESPECT Program to help high school kids in the Portland metro area graduate.
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In 2012, Damian Lillard signed a multi-year sponsorship deal with Adidas.
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In 2014, Damian Lillard negotiated a new contract with Adidas potentially worth $100 million over 10 years.
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Damian Lillard has a signature shoe line with Adidas, the "Adidas Dame".
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In 2017, Damian Lillard signed a sponsorship deal with Powerade, a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company.
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Damian Lillard has endorsement deals with Spalding, Panini, Foot Locker, JBL, Biofreeze and Moda Health.
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In 2019, Damian Lillard became one of a number of NBA players to sign a contract with Hulu to promote the streaming service's new campaign of adding live sports to their repertoire.
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Damian Lillard revived the Never Worry Picnic in Brookfield Park after his standout rookie season in 2013.
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In January 2021, Damian Lillard had his second and third child after his fiancee Kay'La Hanson gave birth to twins, a daughter named Kali and a son named Kalii.
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Damian Lillard began rapping mainly to hang out in the car of his cousin Eugene "Baby" Vasquez, who moved to Oakland from New York City in the early 1990s.
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On October 21,2016, Damian Lillard released his debut album The Letter O On October 6,2017, Damian Lillard released his second album Confirmed.
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Damian Lillard now has his own record label, Front Page Music, which includes Brookfield Duece in its roster.