Damian Lillard on first season with Bucks: I would probably have to rank it at the top, probably toughest year of my life

Damian Lillard shook his head. He stopped what he was doing. He made direct eye contact. “I would probably have to rank it at the top, probably the toughest year of my life,” Lillard told FOX Sports. Lillard’s life was upended about a year ago when the Portland Trail Blazers, the team for which he had played all 11 seasons of his career, stunned him by sending him to the Bucks in late-September after he requested a trade with the hopes of landing in Miami. A few days later, he filed for divorce from his wife and college sweetheart, Kay’La Lillard, with whom he shares three children. It was a dizzying time in his life, both professionally and personally.