"I was praying for his downfall." -Damian Lillard
2025-26
Damian Lillard
POR · G · #0
r/NBA's 36th most loved player.
- Height
- 6′2″
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Age
- 36
- Born
- Jul 15, 1990
- Experience
- 13 yrs
- From
- Weber State
Verdict
36.9%40.8%22.3%
36.9%Negative2,262 comments
40.8%Neutral2,502 comments
22.3%Positive1,371 comments
−15Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=6,135 comments about Damian Lillard
Receipts
What the room said about Damian Lillard, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.MIN flair Exhibit 02Negative.OKC flair Dame looked like he was closing in on washed and is going to be two years older all while coming off a serious injury. He already couldn’t play D, now he’s going to be the biggest defensive liability in the NBA. Honestly would be surprised if he gets meaningful minutes with the talented young dudes ahead of him.
Exhibit 03Negative.DET flair They only played 2 playoff games together in 2 years, and Dame was fuckin awful in both of them. 11pts/6asts on 24% shooting lol
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Damian Lillard that cleared the classifier's confidence bar
and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.
Fans
Of what r/NBA says about Damian Lillard, his own Blazers fans are 23% negative, rival fans 38%, unflaired commenters 41%. Among the 6 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Bucks fans are hardest on him at 46% negative and Blazers fans kindest at 31% positive.
23.3%Own fansPOR flair · 889 comments
37.8%Rival fansevery other flair · 2,999 comments
41.0%Unflairedno flair · 2,247 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Damian Lillard are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Damian Lillard was talked about most on the front page: 3,155 of his 6,135 comments, −15 net sentiment against −15 across his season. His harshest room was news posts, −29 on 29% of his comments; his warmest the game threads, +17 on 6% of his comments. The front page ran 32 points harsher than the game threads, the reverse of the usual order: his season was a story off the court.
Game threads6% of his commentsWarmest25.342.5388
Front page51% of his comments36.621.53,155
Highlights9% of his comments29.638.4558
News29% of his commentsHarshest42.813.41,760
Method
A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about Damian Lillard; left out here: Post-game threads (199), Lowlights (24), Daily chat thread (17), Discussion posts (13), Injury posts (10). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Timeline
Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about Damian Lillard ran between 21% and 46%. His worst week was the week of Oct 20, 51% negative of 371 comments; his best the week of Feb 9, 51% positive.
Method
Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.
Games
Damian Lillard never dressed this season; the room still talked about him in 5 game threads with at least 20 comments each.