{"id":165973,"date":"2020-08-12T09:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T07:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=165973"},"modified":"2020-08-12T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T07:10:35","slug":"damian-lillard-matches-his-career-high-with-61-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/damian-lillard-matches-his-career-high-with-61-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard Matches His Career-High With 61 Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Lillard matches his career-high with 61 PTS, vaulting the Trail Blazers into the #8 seed out West.<\/p>\n<p>Per ESPN, &#8220;Put some respect on my f&#8212;ing name,&#8221; he said over and over again as teammates and coaches came to congratulate their hero.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s scoring spree was Lillard&#8217;s third 60-plus-point game of the season. He joins Wilt Chamberlain as the only players in league history with three or more 60-point games in one season (Chamberlain had 15 in 1961-62 and nine in 1962-63).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the most important game of our lives,&#8221; Lillard told TNT in an on-court interview after the game, looking ahead to Thursday&#8217;s game against the Brooklyn Nets. &#8220;Tonight was great. We said we need one win. We&#8217;re going to focus on one game. We got this one done. And that&#8217;s the most important one. We got to finish it out right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"715\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mTl6c2vlmW8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Put some respect on my f&#8212;ing name,&#8221; he said over and over again as teammates and coaches came to congratulate their hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[4866,2987],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-165973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-damian-lillard-en","tag-portland-trail-blazers-en-2","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165973"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=165973"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=165973"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=165973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}