It’s shaping up to be a busy All-Star Saturday night for the Portland Trail Blazers.
According to Yahoo! Sports’ Chris Haynes, Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard has accepted an invitation to compete in the Three-Point Contest at the 2019 All-Star Weekend in Charlotte, NC. The 6-3 point guard in his seventh season out of Weber State is shooting 37 percent on three-pointers and is seventh in the league in three-pointers made with 142 this season.
Lillard also holds the franchise mark in made three-pointers at 1,411 and counting. He was also the only player in the NBA to make a three-pointer in every one of his team’s game this season before sitting out Saturday night’s victory versus the Atlanta Hawks.