{"id":95005,"date":"2025-06-13T02:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/95005\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T02:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T02:16:16","slug":"damian-lillard-scores-14-points-in-return-from-deep-vein-thrombosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/95005\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard scores 14 points in return from deep vein thrombosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1714468\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1714468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/lillard-iso-784x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1714468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damian Lillard\u2019s return to action wasn\u2019t enough to help the Bucks avoid a Game 2 loss to Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Milwaukee guard Damain Lillard scored 14 points Tuesday in his first game back from deep vein thrombosis in his right calf, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/mil-vs-ind-0042400132\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">123-115 loss<\/a> to Indiana in Game 2 of the first-round series.<\/p>\n<p>Lillard was 4 of 13 from the field in 37 minutes, his first game action since March 18 and his first playoff game with Giannis Antetokounmpo, who had 34 points, 18 rebounds and seven assists.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal Siakam had 24 points and 11 rebounds and Tyrese Haliburton added 21 points and 12 assists to lead the Pacers.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana has won five of the last six playoff games between the teams and never trailed in this one. The Pacers had lost three of four regular-season games to the Bucks. The teams will meet for the 18th time in the last two seasons on Friday, when Game 3 is played in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Portis Jr. finished with 28 points, including six 3-pointers, and 12 rebounds for the Bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard\u2019s return to action wasn\u2019t enough to help the Bucks avoid a Game 2 loss to Indiana.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,20620,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-95005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-damian-lillard-injury","11":"tag-milwaukee","12":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","13":"tag-milwaukeebucks","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114673653200896506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}