In honor of the NBA’s 75th anniversary, players were named to a team that featured the 75 best players of all time. Current Portland Trail Blazers’ star point guard Damian Lillard made the official NBA list, along with a few other notable Blazers. The Athletic is also curating its own list of the 75 best, and Lillard is named there, coming in at 68th. Jason Quick outlines what Lillard has accomplished from his youth to the present, starting with that milk crate on the telephone pole in Oakland.
“Even if you go there right now, you will see a bunch of nails in the pole,” Lillard said.