Right before he stepped onto the plane leaving Portland bound for Toronto Thursday afternoon, Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard turned to a team staffer to make his opinion know about an upcoming milestone.
Said Lillard: “I think it’s about time I got to 10,000.”
He evidently wasn’t kidding, as he wasted little time putting himself over that mark in Friday night’s game versus the Raptors at the Air Canada Centre.
By finishing a driving finger roll layup with 34.9 seconds to play in the first quarter of Portland’s 130-105 loss to the Raptors, Lillard scored the 10,000th point of his career, becoming just one of seven players in franchise history to eclipse the 10k in scoring.