Massive News Reported About Damian Lillard

According to Chris Haynes of Yahoo! Sports, Damian Lillard will undergo surgery on Thursday, and will be re-evaluated in six-eight weeks. The All-Star point guard has missed the last five games for the Portland Trail Blazers.

According to Chris Haynes of Yahoo! Sports, All-Star point guard Damian Lillard will undergo surgery on Thursday, and will be re-evaluated in six-eight weeks. 

The report from Haynes can be read here on Yahoo!, and his tweets can be seen embedded below. 

Yahoo Sources: Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard to undergo surgery tomorrow for an abdomen issue and will be re-evaluated in 6-8 weeks. https://t.co/uuEy0V3TWQ

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) January 12, 2022

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard will undergo surgery tomorrow to address his abdomen injury and he will be re-evaluated in 6-8 weeks, league sources @YahooSports.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) January 12, 2022

The surgery is for the abdomen injury that Lillard has been dealing with, and he had already missed the team's last five games.  

On January 5, the Trail Blazers gave an update on Lillard, which can be read here (tweet below). 

Damian Lillard injury update: https://t.co/TQmgU3RaXT

— Portland Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) January 5, 2022

After making the Western Conference Finals in 2019, the Trail Blazers have been trending downwards; they lost in the first round in the playoffs in each of the last two seasons, and are in jeopardy of missing the playoffs this season.      

They are 16-24 in 40 games this season, and 4-6 in their last ten games. 

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