Blazers Rookie Damian Lillard ‘Don’t Mess With Statues No More’ Due to Fear Stemming From Wax Museum Visit

Damian Lillard is having a tremendous rookie season for the Portland Trail Blazers, but it’s his off-the-field antics that are providing more entertainment for NBA fans. After a trip to Washington, D.C. last week to play the Wizards, Lillard tweeted that he liked the city, but he was scared of all the historic statues that litter the nation’s capital. When reached for further comment by the USA Today, Lillard clarified his fear. “I’ve always been scared of historic stuff like that, Lillard explained. “If I see statues of Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. — all that stuff kind of gives me a funny feeling.” Lillard says that his fear stems from a visit to a wax museum two years ago, when he was playing with Weber State. “The last room was Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln — all these big-time historic people, and it looked just like them,” he said. “They had music playing in the room to set the mood, and it jus...