5 Best Damian Lillard moments from his NBA career so far

#3 Damian Lillard putting his name and Wilt Chamberlain's on the same sentence in 2020

Damian Lillard #0 of the Portland Trail Blazers.

The 2019-20 NBA season was the best of Damian Lillard's career in terms of scoring average. The Portland Trail Blazers point guard put up an average of 30 points per game (66 appearances) on 46/40/88 shooting splits during the regular season.

On his way to averaging 30 points for the first and so far, the only time in his career, Lillard averaged over 50 points per game in the final three games of the regular season to put the Blazers in the NBA Playoffs.

Those three games included a 61-point night against the Dallas Mavericks, which was Lillard's third 60-point game of the 2019-20 NBA regular season, making him only the second player in NBA history to achieve that in a single season. The other player to do so was the extraordinary Wilt Chamberlain, so any diehard NBA fan can understand how big that is.

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#2 Series-clinching shot at the buzzer against the Houston Rockets in the 2014 NBA Playoffs

Photo Credit: Craig Mitchelldyer, USA Today Sports.

In his second NBA season, Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers made it to the NBA Playoffs as the West's fifth seed. The Blazers met with the Houston Rockets in the first round and after LaMarcus Aldridge got extremely hot in the first few games of the series, it was Lillard who had the biggest moment of the duel.

The sophomore, who won the Rookie of the Year award in the 2012-13 NBA season, had the first of many clutch moments in his NBA Playoffs career in Game 6 of the fight against Houston in 2014.

Lillard averaged 25.5 points, six rebounds and six assists per game in the first NBA Playoffs series of his career, but the big moment came when he sealed the series with a buzzer-beating three-point shot.

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#1 Game-winning, series-clinching three-pointer against the OKC Thunder in the 2019 NBA Playoffs

Damian Lillard #0 of the Portland Trail Blazers drives to the basket.

Damian Lillard willed the Portland Trail Blazers to third spot in the Western Conference after great regular-season performances. He averaged 26.9 points and 6.6 assists per game in the regular season, and the Blazers matched up against Russell Westbrook's OKC Thunder in the first round of the postseason.

In that first-round duel, Lillard averaged 33 points, four rebounds and six assists per game with 46/48/84 shooting splits.

Lillard was dominant throughout the encounter, but the biggest moment came in Game 5, when he hit an unbelievable three-pointer at the buzzer to end a postseason series with a game-winning triple once again.

Later on, Lillard guided the Blazers to the Western Conference Finals, but the Golden State Warriors handed them a sweep, guided by Stephen Curry.

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