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Bernard James was the oldest player drafted in an NBA draft, being 27 years old at the time of the draft. [2] The draft contained seven players who combined for 10 championships as well as having Anthony Davis and Damian Lillard both named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021. [3] Six players have participated in an All-Star Game.
Lillard was selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers. In the season opener against the Los Angeles Lakers on October 31, Lillard recorded 23 points and 11 assists to join Oscar Robertson and Allen Iverson as the only players in NBA history with at least 20 points and 10 assists in their NBA debut.
The 2012–13 Portland Trail Blazers season was the 43rd season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The off-season saw the team draft a pair of first round draft picks, future All-Star Damian Lillard was taken sixth overall and Meyers Leonard was taken 11th overall.
Lillard's 32.2 points per game and 64.5% true-shooting clip last season were both career highs. He added 7.3 assists and 4.8 rebounds in 36.3 minutes a night for a 33-win team.
Portland also received Houston's second-round draft pick in the 2012 NBA Draft. Portland then traded forward Gerald Wallace to the New Jersey Nets for center Mehmet Okur, forward Shawne Williams, and New Jersey's first-round, top-3-protected pick in the 2012 NBA draft. All four players acquired in the trades held expiring contracts, meaning ...
Damian Lillard is ready to smell the roses in his emotional return to Portland on Wednesday night. ... The company signed Lillard in 2012 when he was the No. 7 pick in the draft, and his first ...
Lillard has been with Adidas since he first joined the league in 2012. In 2014, he signed a 10-year deal reportedly worth up to $100 million. That deal expired this offseason, per Charania.
The draft selections and transactions, including trades involving picks on draft night or at a previous time. - this is an incomplete sentence, and I'm not entirely sure what it means The first 14 picks in the draft belong to teams that miss the playoffs; the order was determined through a lottery.