It hasn't been the easiest season for the Portland Trail Blazers, who have gone from dark-horse title contention in a brutal West to fighting on the fringes of the playoff race in a watered-down conference after losing four-fifths of their starting lineup in free agency this offseason. Yet as the Blazers scuffle through the early stages of their rebuild, and as they licked their wounds after a blowout loss at the hands of the defending champion Golden State Warriors, All-Star point guard Damian Lillard — who signed a five-year, $120-plus million maximum-salary contract extension this summer to be the linchpin of the next era of Blazers basketball — committed himself to sticking it out through the tough times, saying he plans to spend the rest of his career in Portland and that he looks forward to "what it will be like when we get through this." [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] While he waits for that "ultimate satisfaction," though, Lillard also thought it might be nice to give Blazers fans something to go nuts about in the here and now. Like, for example, a flamethrowing finish to Sunday's showdown with Kevin Durant, Russell...