{"id":467379,"date":"2023-10-27T05:59:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467379"},"modified":"2023-10-27T05:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:59:05","slug":"lillard-notches-39-points-and-triumphs-in-bucks-debut","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lillard-notches-39-points-and-triumphs-in-bucks-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Lillard notches 39 points and triumphs in Bucks debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the Bucks traded for Damian Lillard in the past month, the franchise supported Dame to be himself when he plays for them, suggesting that he take control of matches in the crucial moments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">? THURSDAY&#8217;S FINAL SCORES ?<\/p>\n<p>Damian Lillard scores 39 and leads the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Bucks<\/a> to the win in his Milwaukee debut!<\/p>\n<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo: 23 PTS, 13 REB<br \/>\nBrook Lopez: 13 PTS (5\/7 FGM), 3 3PM<br \/>\nBobby Portis: 10 PTS, 6 REB<br \/>\nTyrese Maxey: 31 PTS, 4 REB, 8 AST <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YRHYgjXtO8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YRHYgjXtO8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1717756270680088627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, Dame\u2019s debut for the organization on Thursday night happened exactly as the Bucks had thought. Lillard notched 39 points \u2013 a record for points in a 1<sup>st<\/sup> match with the organization \u2013 including Milwaukee\u2019s final 11 points in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter to secure his team\u2019s 118-117 campaign-opening triumph against the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve communicated more than enough with guys, especially with Giannis Antetokounmpo, that I understand what was expected of me to do on the court,&#8221; Dame shared after the victory. &#8220;They&#8217;re supporting me to be the person to take control, make decisions, and had the pole position role about what\u2019s going to happen next in the crucial periods of the games.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the Bucks traded for Damian Lillard in the past month, the franchise supported Dame to be himself when he plays for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":467380,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17039,16726,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20017,17841,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Damian began with a victory his period in Milwaukee.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467383,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467379\/revisions\/467383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467379"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467379"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}