The Damian Lillard vs. Paul George and Patrick Beverley beef made its way from the basketball court to social media shortly after Lillard’s Portland Trail Blazers blew a winnable game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday.
Much to the delight of the Clippers’ George and Beverley, Lillard missed two free throws and a three-point attempt in the final 45 seconds of a 122-117 Los Angeles victory.
After the game, Beverley waved bye-bye to Lillard in the same fashion that he had waved bye-bye to George and Oklahoma City after hitting a three-point basket in Game 6 of a first-round series win over the Thunder in 2019.
After Saturday’s game, Lillard was asked about the reaction George and Beverley had to his failure at the end of Saturday’s game. Lillard responded by reminding the world that he had sent both Beverly and George home with playoff defeats.
In regards to Beverley, Lillard was referring to 2014, when his game-winning three-pointer in Game 6 against Houston ended the first-round series. Beverley played for Houston at the time.
Bleacher Report created a meme of Lillard and one of his quotes about George and Lillard and posted it to its Instagram account. That led to George and Beverley responding in the comments section of that post.
Beverley (patbev21) commented: “Cancun on 3 😂😂😂”
Paul George commented: “And you getting sent home this year 🤣 respect ✊🏾”
Lillard then clapped back to George, commenting: “keep switching teams ... running from the grind . you boys is chumps”
George began his career in Indiana before getting traded to Oklahoma City in 2017. The Thunder traded George to the Clippers last year.
George didn’t take too kindly to Lillard’s remarks and retorted that he had a more successful run at his first stop (Indiana) than Lillard has had in Portland.
No, none of this is very mature.
But it makes for great theater. Too bad we likely won’t get a Blazers-Clippers playoff series this year.
-- Aaron Fentress | afentress@oregonian.com | @AaronJFentress (Twitter), @AaronJFentress (Instagram), @AaronFentress (Facebook).
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