Ben Mathis-LilleyofBuzzfeed.comoffers 15 reasons everyone should be a Portland Trail Blazers fan. The list includes a number of Damian Lillard GIFs.

How about this nickname for Damian Lillard: "D-Chill" cause he's stone cold cool under pressure.

ESPN TrueHoop's Henry Abbott does some theorizing about the Blazers' early success, then has some Q&A w/ Coach Stotts.

Kirk Goldsberry's new (rather short) piece on the Blazers, including lots of shot charts

From the podcast: "...if a team has wise management, it has a chance — even if it's a franchise in an itsy-bitsy market. Can you believe that the four teams with the best records in the NBA are Indiana, Portland, San Antonio and Oklahoma City — representing four of the 10 smallest metropolitan markets in the league?" As I listened to this on the radio this morning, I thought he might be heading toward mentioning the Blazers, and sure enough he did. But he should have said Portland BEFORE Indiana!! :)

Damian is the most clutch player in the NBA right now. Look at poor Irving here? Irving gets all the highlights but down the stretch you'd be a fool to pass him the ball instead of Lillard. Is it time to start saying Dame is better than Kyrie? I think so. Kyrie *might* more talent but his shot selection and dumb ISO's aren't great.

I hope theres no plans to trade away any of our current rotation guys

With all this Lillard commotion -rightly deserved- lately, we shouldn't forget that Roy had his career high 52 pts 5 years ago. Man time flys

Batum gets a little love on the list of ignored players off the all star ballot