Portland Trail Blazers star point guard Damian Lillard is in the Western Conference finals for the first time of his career.
Making this trip even more special is that he’s from Oakland and will be playing the Golden State Warriors, a team he watched a lot of as a young kid.
On Monday he spoke to reporters about how he had season tickets a few times as a kid. He was then asked about his fondest memory about Oracle Arena and instead of talking about a game he played in he brought up a time when in the fourth grade he and his cousin saw the Warriors’ old mascot, Thunder, not all dressed up in his suit:
Gotta love Dame.
Here’s photo of the Thunder:
