Travis Outlaw, Portland Trail Blazers (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
Before Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard took on the onus as the Portland Trail Blazers’ go-to guy, the term “Mr. Fourth Quarter” belonged to a different player.
At some point in between Brandon Roy’s rise as a feared late-game scorer and the moments prior to Damian Lillard effectively taking that torch to a higher pedestal, the Portland Trail Blazers associated the mantra “Mr. Fourth Quarter” with an entirely different player.
It’s easy to be fooled by the 9.6 points per game average, or the accumulation of just 26 starts over a seven-year span in Rip City.