If Ja Morant had a perfect return to play for the Grizzlies, the evening was also good for Damian Lillard. The leader's 40 points at 14/22 shooting including 7/12 at 3-points helped the Bucks (20-7) to take a walk against the Spurs, thus notching a fifth consecutive victory to get closer to Boston at the top of ballast.
A performance which also allows the former Blazer to join the 20,000 point club in the NBA!
At 33 years old, he is only the 51st player in history to reach this mark (in the regular season), with Damian Lillard being the 8th active player to achieve it, after LeBron James, Kevin Durant, James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Stephen Curry, DeMar DeRozan And Chris Paul.
Trust as a driving force
“I don’t want to pretend to minimize things like it’s nothing”, he reacted. “I know it’s important. This is a great accomplishment. There are few people who have succeeded. »
Now at 20,034 points, Damian Lillard will continue to climb the hierarchy. From the next match, he could overtake Antawn Jamison and Tom Chambers, while he only needed 794 matches to reach 20,000 points, making him the 17th fastest player to achieve this in the history.
“I look at what brought me to this result”continued Damian Lillard. “All the things I remember from high school and college, the doubts I faced in my career, before the NBA – what I wasn't supposed to be, what I wasn't wasn't supposed to accomplish, and just my mentality about it all. Sometimes you don't really see the light at the end of the tunnel. You just have to have confidence in yourself.”
