Christmas Day didn’t end with one extra present for Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers. Instead they retreated from Utah with a loss in a game that was mostly in full control by the Jazz after the first quarter. However poor the day ended, Lillard detailed what it meant to play on Christmas Day with Eric Woodyard of the Deseret News prior to the game.
First, he beamed about celebrating his first Christmas with his son, Dame Jr.:
“I got up this morning with him and we was up for about two hours just messing around with high energy,” Lillard described during the Blazers’ shootaround.