SALT LAKE CITY — Numerous gifts were waiting for 8-month-old Damian Lillard Jr. from his parents when he popped up Christmas morning in Utah.
One of them was a height tracker to chart his growth, plus an assortment of other toys and presents from Santa Claus, as he celebrated his first-ever Christmas, before his father, Damian Lillard, had to take off for work.
“I got up this morning with him and we was up for about two hours just messing around with high energy,” Lillard described during the Blazers' shootaround. “He don’t know what today is, so he kind of just got up, he was playing with all his toys and that was it.