NEW YORK — There's a Western Conference point guard tearing up the NBA this season. He spent his college years at a mid-major. He was picked in the first half of the lottery. He spent the beginning of his career playing second fiddle to veterans before taking the reins.
He's now one of the league's best scorers and distributors, a pick-and-roll maestro, a pull-up three-point assassin, bursting through the paint whenever he wants. He's one of two players in the league with multiple 50-point games this season. He's one of two players averaging at least 30 points and four three-pointers per game since the All-Star break.
His name is Damian Lillard, and it's no wonder he keeps getting compared to Stephen Curry. Just don't make that comparison in front of Lillard himself—the last time that happened, Dame didn't take too kindly to it.
His teammates and coaches had his back.
"The answer was appropriate," Blazers wing Allen Crabbe said before a recent win over the Knicks in New York. "He wants to be his own player. I'm pretty sure everybody wants to be his own player ...
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