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Andy Nesbitt

This photo of Damian Lillard celebrating his game-winner quickly became a great meme

Damian Lillard showed everyone once again why he’s one of the best players in the NBA, as he calmly sank a 40-footer as time expired to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 118-115 and advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs.

His game-winning shot was a thing of absolute beauty and sent everyone in the arena into hysterics

It was very much like how he beat the Houston Rockets back in 2014, and he’s just the second player in the last 15 years to hit two game-winning 3-pointer buzzer-beaters to win a playoff game. The other player? LeBron James.

And this photo from the middle of his celebration says it all about how cool Lillard is:

Twitter had fun with it:

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