Damian Lillard bangs on Lakers, leads Blazers to 30th win (Ball Don’t Lie)
Since entering the NBA in the 2012 draft, Damian Lillard has established himself as the type of player who's exceedingly comfortable on big stages and in pressure-packed moments, especially when the clock's ticking down in the closing seconds and he's got to make a play to deliver his Portland Trail Blazers a victory. He's become about as deadly a late-game option as the NBA has to offer, delivering dagger after dagger . (After dagger after dagger after big huge giant flippin' dagger .) Sometimes, Lillard throws those daggers, like some kind of Colin Farrell-as-Bullseye , from a couple of steps behind the 3-point arc. Sometimes, though, he decides to get up close, like some kind of Colin Farrell-in-"In-Bruges," and end things right in your mug. The Los Angeles Lakers got just that sort of personal touch late in the fourth quarter on Sunday night: [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] We respect your desire to get up in Lillard's kitchen 40 feet away from the basket, Ronnie Price — especially after giving Dame off-ball space allowed Nicolas Batum to find him on a back-cut alley-oop earlier in the game, and especially after suffering a...
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