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The Portland Trail Blazers' season has been a disaster, and Damian Lillard will no longer be a part of it. The Blazers are going to hold out their All-Star guard for the remainder of the season, according to TNT and Bleacher Report's Chris Haynes, with the team hampered by injuries and all but removed from postseason consideration. Lillard has been out since March 22 due to "right calf tightness," and will now be put down. There had been rumors that the squad was contemplating relocating last weekend, and it's easy to see why.
The Blazers' record sits at 32-43, good for 13th place in the Western Conference and a full five games back from the 10th-place Oklahoma City Thunder for the final spot in the play-in tournament. Even in a season where nearly every serious team in the West is in the mix, the Blazers are out of it with seven games left on their schedule.
Damian Lillard has been good, the Blazers have been awful
Lillard's play hasn't been the reason for that futility. The seven-time All-Star has been as good as ever, averaging a career-high 32.2 points per game on 46.3% shooting (37.1% from deep), plus 7.3 assists and 4.8 rebounds per game.
This season has also seen him score 71 points in one game, win the NBA All-Star 3-Point Contest and become the Blazers' all-time leading scorer, though he also missed some time early in the season with a calf strain.
The Blazers' bigger problem, as usual, has been the roster around Lillard, especially with this year's injury issues. In addition to Lillard, Jusuf Nurkić, Anfernee Simons and Jerami Grant — three players after Lillard on the Blazers' points per game leaderboard — have all been dealing with injuries over the last month.
There was also the issue with Gary Payton II, who was signed with big hopes last offseason, but whose injury issues are now the Golden State Warriors' problem.
It has been a very bad season for the Blazers and the team no longer has any real reason to stop it from being worse, though you might also wonder if this becoming too familiar a position for the man who was just shut down.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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