BLAZER LILLARD ERASES BAD PORTLAND MEMORIES

Ask any sports fan and they’ll tell you: are the most lasting memories of your team the wins or the losses?

Because once the fan base gets used to winning, the losing always shocks.

Every Cowboy fan knows this. The same with Oregon Duck football fans from 2010’s Auburn cheat game win. That was a bitter one.

How to banish bad team memories? Dame Dolla has the right answer. Blazer Lillard chased them all out.

Blazer Lillard?

Bad memory eraser Blazer Lillard

Who was the last Blazer who said he wanted to stay in Portland for the rest of his career and reset all of the team records?

He said it just before leaving town. I hope the Blazers take San Antonio down. But if they get Denver, there’s still a grudge to work.

I didn’t believe L.A. would reset team records if he’d decided to stay. Not good enough. Blazer Lillard is good enough, and more believable.

How believable? On the Jim Rome Show today he laid believable out.

I listened in the car and felt the hurt from Brandon Roy’s knees fade away.

The more Blazer Lillard I heard the less I heard from the disappointment the Blazers have poured on the court.

Greg Oden and his misguided Portland time didn’t seem so painful. Same with the Kevin Durant non-pick.

Arvydas Sabonis showing up a decade late? It’s okay Sabas.

Rasheed throwing a towel in his face? It’s in the past now.

Sam Bowie instead of MJ? It all points to Blazer Lillard now.

The last two bad memories recently erased?

Clyde Drexler leaving for his home town Houston and winning a title instead of sticking it out here? He was never comfortable in Oregon.

The title team of 1977 that could have run through the NBA for five more years? All good now.

Damian Lillard showed up like so many Blazers: First the hoopla, then modest success before they get traded away for not being more.

Blazer Lillard showed he’s all that. From his handles to his attitude, the man is a closer.

That he closed the season for OKC is almost too much to believe. For Portland Trail Blazer fans over the long stretch, Blazer Lillard did more than hit the last shot against the Thunder. He also drained one on the old Seattle Supersonics.

He is who he said he is, and he’ll be who we need to hang onto in the next round of NBA Playoffs.

After his show against the creepy faced triple double machine that is Russell Westbrook, everyone needs some Dame Dolla.

Dan Patrick has him on tomorrow.