You Needed to See it Twice: why Damian Lillard didn’t blow up the Lakers
Los Angeles Breaks the Curse
7 min readNov 5, 2018
Portland came into this game with a 34–8 record at home against the Lakers, since 1996, and dominated the Shaq-Kobe Three-Peat Lakers 13–3. More recently, Portland had won 16 straight games, and, as expected, ruined LeBron James’ debut as a Laker with a 129–118 victory. How did the Lakers…
