As a senior at Oakland High School, coming from the tough Brookfield neighborhood, Damian Lillard was so lightly regarded as a basketball prospect that his profile on the recruiting site Rivals, which ranked him just two stars out of five, didn't even include a profile photo
Lillard landed at Weber State, a small college located in Ogden, Utah, where he excelled. He skipped his senior year of college to enter the 2012 NBA Draft, where the Portland Trail Blazers selected him sixth overall. Still, there were doubters. But Lillard has since proved them all wrong; a Rookie of the Year trophy in your first season and an All-Star nod in your second tend to have that effect Read more...
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