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June 1, 2016
S PORTS
Lillard Earns All-NBA Honor
Portland Trail Blazers guard
Damian Lillard has been named to
the All-NBA Second Team, mak-
ing him one of the top 10 players
in the league.
Lillard, 25, averaged a ca-
reer-high 25.1 points this season,
just the fourth Trail Blazer in fran-
chise history to average more than
25 points per game. He also pro-
duced a career-best game average
of 6.8 assists and 4.0 rebounds
over 75 games.
In his fourth NBA season, Lil-
lard inished sixth in the NBA in
scoring and tied for eighth in as-
sists to become the irst Portland
player ever to rank in the top-10
in both categories. He also be-
came the franchise leader in three-
point ield goals, and his 229
three-pointers in 2015-16 broke
Portland guard Damian Lillard has been named All-NBA for the
second time in his career.
his previous franchise record for second All-NBA honor for Lillard
the most threes made in a single after being named to the Third
season. Last week’s award was the Team in 2013-14.
Jefferson
Relay
Team Pride
Jefferson High School’s boys
4X100 Relay team comprised
of Mason Williams, Nashon
Jefferson, Jeffrey Ward and
Romeo Akil.
C ervante p ope
t he p ortland o bserver
Congratulations to the boys
4X100 Relay team at Jefferson
High School for a successful sea-
son by pushing themselves to the
limit.
Despite a fair share of strife
amidst changes in the lineup and
two members dealing with sick
parents at home, the team banded
together runners Mason Williams,
Nashon Jefferson, Jeffrey Ward
and Romeo Akil to qualify for
both the Portland Interscholastic
League and the 6A state track and
ield championships.
The team out ran both Grant
and Wilson to make it to state, but
it was close. Jefferson’s 43.93 sec-
onds time was better than Grant’s
43.97 seconds, but it tied with
Wilson, making track oficials get
down to the brass tacks of milli-
seconds. Looking at the times at
hundredths of a second, the Dem-
ocrats ending time was 43.924
seconds to Wilson’s 43.929 sec-
onds.
The state championships were
held on May 20-21 at the Univer-
sity of Oregon in Eugene and the
Jefferson team ran a relay time of
44.63 seconds, placing them in 8th
place for their irst heat. The inish
was short of a title, but still a great
accomplishment.
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