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Make way for the game! Damian Lillard Returns from afar after having been away from the field for a month due to a deep venous thrombosis. If the situation is now on the way to being settled, while the leader has stopped taking anticoagulants and has already resumed training, the blow of fate has plunged him into a big anxiety. From this misadventure, “Lady Time” has almost emerged more mentally experienced than physically.
When was he going to come back? What if it was the end of his career that was looming prematurely? Was his life at stake? So many questions that have haunted his last weeks and from which he was relieved to have been released.
“Of course, there are people who have very worse problems than those I had to manage, so I don't want to dramatize. But you never know, when something can happen and change your life ”, he said on Friday. “Guys like Chris Bosh had this problem. It's an additional thing to manage, something that can potentially end your career. So I think that we should not take the days, opportunities and things in life for granted ”.
Millions of unanswered questions
If the cases remain rare enough among professional athletes, Damian Lillard was disturbed by the memory of a personal drama: the death of one of his cousins of a pulmonary embolism during the Covid pandemic.
“During the covid, they could not hospitalize him because everything was on zoom, and he ended up making a pulmonary embolism and dying, then obviously, it is the first thing that came to my mind”he added, evoking the repercussions that it could have on him and which therefore exceeded the simple framework of basketball. “There have been millions of thoughts that have gone through my head, like 'What if this?” What if that? '. I panicked. My back started to hurt me, my chest started to hurt me, and I wondered: 'Can the clot circulate?'. I was wondering all kinds of things. ”
Fortunately for him, the situation quickly improved, and the leader All-Star was able to keep his head cold by recovering from the protocol, which worked rather well for his case.
“What doctors have continued to tell me is that I was not a 65 -year -old person who usually happens that kind of thing. It is rather: 'You are a 34 -year -old athlete, you are in good shape, your body is strong'. This is the language they used. But I would say that what made it different is that I was able to go there every week. It is not the usual protocol. When you are under anticoagulants, I have the impression that it is a longer process when you choose this path, when I came every week, I did analyzes, I spent ultrasound. I could monitor the evolution of the situation every week, to see if it was progressing a little bit or to make sure it happened as I wanted. ”
Finally, everything was quickly back to normal, and a month after his last game, Milwaukee is about to play his first playoff match against Indiana. As for his exact return to competition, nothing has yet been fixed: “The moment I feel that I can go, I go”.
| Damian Lillard | Percentage | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saison | Team | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | To | Pd | Fte | Int | Bp | Ct | Pts |
| 2012-13 | BY | 82 | 39 | 42.9 | 36.8 | 84.4 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 6.5 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 19.0 |
| 2013-14 ☆ | BY | 82 | 36 | 42.4 | 39.4 | 87.1 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 5.6 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 20.7 |
| 2014-15 ☆ | BY | 82 | 36 | 43.4 | 34.3 | 86.4 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 6.2 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 21.0 |
| 2015-16 | BY | 75 | 36 | 41.9 | 37.5 | 89.2 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 6.8 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 25.1 |
| 2016-17 | BY | 75 | 36 | 44.4 | 37.0 | 89.5 | 0.6 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 27.0 |
| 2017-18 ☆ | BY | 73 | 37 | 43.9 | 36.1 | 91.6 | 0.8 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 26.9 |
| 2018-19 ☆ | BY | 80 | 36 | 44.4 | 36.9 | 91.2 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 6.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 25.8 |
| 2019-20 ☆ | BY | 66 | 38 | 46.3 | 40.1 | 88.8 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 8.0 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 30.0 |
| 2020-21 ☆ | BY | 67 | 36 | 45.1 | 39.1 | 92.8 | 0.5 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 28.8 |
| 2021-22 | BY | 29 | 36 | 40.2 | 32.4 | 87.8 | 0.4 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 7.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 24.0 |
| 2022-23 ☆ | BY | 58 | 36 | 46.3 | 37.1 | 91.4 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 7.3 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 32.2 |
| 2023-24 ☆ | MIL | 73 | 35 | 42.4 | 35.4 | 92.0 | 0.5 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 7.0 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 24.3 |
| 2024-25 ☆ | MIL | 58 | 36 | 44.8 | 37.6 | 92.1 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 7.1 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 0.2 | 24.9 |
How to read the stats? MJ = matches played; Min = minutes; Shots = successful shots / tempted shots; 3pts = 3-point / 3-point attempted; LF = Successful free throws / tempted free throws; Off = offensive rebound; Def = defensive rebound; Tot = Total rebounds; PD = assists; FTE: Personal faults; Int = interceptions; BP = lost bullets; CT: against; Pts = points.
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