DAMIAN LILLARD NAMED NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

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    DAMIAN LILLARD NAMED NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

    Portland goes 2-1 as Lillard averages 36.3 points and 12.7 assists


    PORTLAND, Ore. (February 22, 2021)–Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard has been named the NBA Western Conference Player of the Week for the week ending February 21, it was announced today by the NBA.


    The Trail Blazers, who have won six of their last seven games, went 2-1 on the week with Lillard posting averages of 36.3 points (43.4% FG, 40.4% 3-PT, 94.7% FT), 5.7 rebounds, 12.7 assists and 1.33 steals. He led the league in scoring for the week and ranked second in assists.


    This marks the second time this season and 11th time in his career that Lillard has been named the NBA Western Conference Player of the Week. His 11 Player of the Week honors are the most in franchise history (Drexler – 10).


    Lillard began the week with 31 points (12-25 FG, 5-14 3-PT, 2-3 FT), seven rebounds and 10 assists at Oklahoma City on February 16. Portland trailed the Thunder by five points with 4:48 remaining in the fourth quarter before closing the game on an 18-2 run that featured Lillard making four three-pointers and assisting on two others. On February 17 in New Orleans, Lillard scored 43 points (14-28 FG, 7-16 3-PT, 8-8 FT) while matching his career high of 16 assists. With 16.5 seconds remaining, Lillard completed a three-point play on a driving layup to deliver a 126-124 Trail Blazers victory. He closed the week with 35 points, six rebounds and 12 assists against Washington on February 20. Lillard has recorded at least 30 points, 10 assists and five three-pointers in each of his last four games, which ties his own mark for the longest such streak in NBA history.


    For the season, Lillard is averaging 30.0 points (44.5% FG, 38.5% 3-PT, 93.5% FT), 4.5 rebounds, 7.9 assists and 1.07 steals. He leads the NBA in 30-point games (18), ranks third in scoring and is tied for eighth in assists.


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    Well deserved. Aside from the team laying an egg against the Wizards, he’s played damn near flawless basketball.
     
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    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    well, how many times has Luka been player of the week this year!?

    1 time!

    Dame? twice!

    all is well.
     
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    Make up call for the all star snub?
     
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    The MVP will work for that. Player of the week? Not so much sorry.
     
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    The MVP should play on both sides of the floor
     
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    Yet Curry is the only unanimous MVP of all time and Nash won MVP twice. So maybe that should be the case but it's not always.
     
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    I agree. But more than one player was named MVP and played limited defense.
     
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    Fan vote should just be abolished. It's a joke and should never be a decision maker for any sporting event.
     
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    "Dame Time" doesn't have an actual statistical definition, but clutch time does. In those moments -- when the score is within five points in the final five minutes of regulation and overtime -- Damian Lillard continues to rise to the occasion. He's second in the league in clutch-time points and is doing it on an absolutely absurd 61.5% from the floor and 58.8% from 3. He's 24-for-24 from the free throw line and is third in assists (15), and his team is 12-4, which is tied for the most clutch-time wins in the NBA. --Young

    This week: @PHX, @DEN, @LAL
    Source: ESPN
     
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    It's criminal, I tell ya.~
     
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    Small Markets really suffer. Commercials and Sponsors enable these stars.
     
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    Well, that settles it, Dame has passed Clyde as best Blazer ever. This week's discussion was more neck-and-neck than we realized prior to today.
     
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    Nice try at a consolation prize.
     
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    The All-Star game has and always will be a popularity contest that's tailored to entertain the fans. Sure maybe Dame "should" have started the game and there has been plenty of debate around it, but at the end of the day it sort of misses the point of what the event is even about.
     
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    Dame has won 4 playoff series in 8 years with 1 WCF loss
    Clyde has won 9 playoff series in 9 years with 2 WCF wins and 2 finals loss's
     
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    exactly what I was about to post.
     
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    Clyde had a WCF loss too. An embarrassing one as the #1 seed.
     
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    Also- Clyde could never beat Magic in playoffs. We made Finals in 90 cuz Suns beat Lakers for us. We made Finals in 92 cuz HIV.
     
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