Portland Trail Blazers guard {a href=”/search?find=”Damian+Lillard””}Damian Lillard{/a} will be heading to NBA All-Star weekend in LA to compete in this year’s 3-point contest on Valentine’s Day.

It will be one Lillard’s first times back on the court since he came back to Portland heading into this season.

Lillard is still rehabbing a torn Achilles tendon from last season’s playoffs when he was on the Milwaukee Bucks. This will mark the sixth time he is competing in the 3-point contest, with Lillard winning the event in 2023 and 2024.

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He leads the Blazers franchise with 2,387 three-point shots made in his 11 seasons on the team, and he ranks fifth in NBA history with 2,804 throughout his career.

Lillard is joining 2018 3-point contest champion Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns in the field, along with Charlotte’s Kon Knueppel, Philadelphia’s Tyrese Maxey, Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell, Denver’s Jamal Murray, Milwaukee’s Bobby Portis Jr. and Miami’s Norman Powell.

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If Lillard wins, he would join Larry Bird and Craig Hodges as the only three-time winners of the event, which will be held at the Los Angeles Clippers’ home in Inglewood, California.