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For Lillard, The Chance To Play For Team USA Comes At Just The Right Time

For Damian Lillard, playing for Team USA at the upcoming 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo seems like what those of us who are not professional athletes would consider a “working vacation.”

Playing internationally for the first time in his career, Lillard will have will have to put in plenty of hard work and preparation if he is to help the United States bring home yet another gold medal in men’s basketball. And after spending much of last summer in the NBA Bubble in Orlando, he’ll once again be away from his friends and family for more than a month, an odious ask for those who already spend much of year away from home while crisscrossing the country during the NBA’s regular season.