The Portland Trail Blazers are in the middle of a crucial offseason following an impressive 2024-25 NBA season. While the team didn't make the playoffs, they di

At Damian Lillard’s homecoming game last January, it was a handmade sign held high by a little boy that earned the night’s most stirring ovation. “Get your ring,” the sign read. “Then come back home.” That syrupy sentiment was perhaps the only thing that made Lillard’s exit from Portland somewhat tolerable.

In the first quarter of his team's Game 4 loss to fall behind 3-1 in the series, Lillard went to chase an offensive rebound, but collapsed to the court and grabbed his lower left leg. The official diagnosis is a torn Achilles tendon.