We’re each the hero of our own stories, but you might sometimes feel it a bit more. Like you’re playing against the team that drafted you, like Zach Collins. Or for that matter like Drew Eubanks, putting a little more into screen and each rim contest against yiur former squad. But mostly if you’re Damian Lillard with a live dribble within 45 feet of the basket. For everyone else in the building, that sense of self gets a touch out of focus, at least in the few moments after another unconscious bomb from deep.
The Spurs went toe to toe with Lillard and the Blazers in the first half of their Monday-night, San Antonio ultimately falling, 147 to 127.