If this summer taught Damian Lillard anything, it’s that he’s dedicated.
The Trail Blazers guard married his longtime girlfriend and the mother of this three kids, played in the Olympics despite withdrawing his name from consideration from the national team a few years ago, and worked on his second career in music.
He said the busy offseason centered him, because he acted on his convictions.
“All of those things that I stuck with is what has me here,” Lillard said Monday at the team’s media day. “What keeps me so invested here is I want to see it through. I want to see it happen. I mean what I say.”
There was speculation at the end of last season that Lillard might be looking to move on from the Blazers.
Lillard fueled rumors about his future in Portland following the team’s first-round elimination from the playoffs. He posted a photo of himself in street clothes at the Moda Center, and quoted the late rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle.