By signing a staggering $122 million two-year contract extension this summer, Damian Lillard further increased his already very significant career earnings.
The Blazers point guard has indeed touched 193 million dollars since his arrival in the NBA in 2012, and by 2027, he will add another 258 million in his wallet. The calculation is quick to do: 451 million dollars earned in fifteen years of career!
Has the player realized how much money is on his contract extension in July, or is there a time when money doesn’t really make sense when you’re already earning so much?
“We talk about it with my wife. It is enormous “answers Damian Lillard, who therefore leans towards the first option, for Andscape. “I also talked about it with my agent and with other people: it’s very important. I didn’t know what to do with this moment: post a photo on Instagram? I’m not just talking about this contract, by the way. It’s something I tell myself regularly. I’ve been so successful in the past decade that I’ve forgotten how I felt when the future was uncertain. »
Does he at least remember the first contract he signed after his Draft, ten years ago now? “I said to myself, at the time, that I was going to change the life of my family and my mother”, explains the All-Star.
His first three seasons, the former Weber State then earned “only” three million dollars a year, but they logically sheltered his mother.
“My senior year in college, we were talking on the phone almost every day and she was telling me things weren’t going well for her at work. She was stressed, they were threatening to fire her and it was affecting her health. I told him that the Celtics or the Jazz had come to see me at practice. I was trying to cheer her up because she was telling me about her problems. She lived in an apartment with my sister. So when I was drafted and everything was in place, I went home, we went to his job to tell him to quit and I helped him pack his things. It was one of my most memorable memories. »
| Damian Lillard | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saison | Team | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Fte | Int | Bp | Ct | Pts |
| 2012-13 | BY | 82 | 39 | 42.9 | 36.8 | 84.4 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 6.5 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 19.1 |
| 2013-14 | BY | 82 | 36 | 42.4 | 39.4 | 87.1 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 5.6 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 20.7 |
| 2014-15 | BY | 82 | 36 | 43.4 | 34.3 | 86.4 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 6.2 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 21.0 |
| 2015-16 | BY | 75 | 36 | 41.9 | 37.5 | 89.2 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 6.8 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 25.1 |
| 2016-17 | BY | 75 | 36 | 44.4 | 37.0 | 89.5 | 0.6 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 5.9 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 27.0 |
| 2017-18 | BY | 73 | 37 | 43.9 | 36.1 | 91.6 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 26.9 |
| 2018-19 | BY | 80 | 36 | 44.4 | 36.9 | 91.2 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 6.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 25.8 |
| 2019-20 | BY | 66 | 38 | 46.3 | 40.1 | 88.8 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 8.0 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 30.0 |
| 2020-21 | BY | 67 | 36 | 45.1 | 39.1 | 92.8 | 0.5 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 28.8 |
| 2021-22 | BY | 29 | 36 | 40.2 | 32.4 | 87.8 | 0.5 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 7.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 24.0 |
| Total | 711 | 36 | 43.7 | 37.3 | 89.3 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 6.7 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 24.6 | |
