{"id":114607,"date":"2025-08-03T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114607\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T03:21:09","slug":"damian-lillard-to-serve-as-gm-for-weber-state-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114607\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard To Serve As GM For Weber State Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damian Lillard<\/a><\/strong> is the latest NBA player to take a management role with his alma mater, announcing Saturday that he will become the new general manager for the Weber State men\u2019s basketball program (Twitter video link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Lillard was on hand for the school\u2019s annual Basketball Alumni Classic, according to Isaac Fisher of The Ogden Standard-Examiner<\/a>. After signing autographs for about 90 minutes, he addressed the crowd with the news of his continuing relationship with the university.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something that, my relationship with coach (Eric) Duft and this program means a lot to me, and seeing the success of the program means a lot to me,\u201d Lillard said. \u201cI feel like I can do a lot to help the program be successful, to help the players even individually continue to grow their careers past college, that\u2019s something that I\u2019m passionate about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Few details of the position were announced, but Lillard\u2019s association should bring prestige to the program, which competes in the Big Sky Conference and is coming off a 12-22 season. WSU issued a press release stating that Lillard \u201cwill work closely with the coaching staff and athletic department leadership to provide insight, mentorship, and guidance, using his experience at the collegiate and professional levels to elevate the program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lillard is one of the most accomplished players in Wildcats history, twice earning conference Player of the Year honors before declaring for the draft in 2012. He had 1,934 points and left school as the second-leading scorer in Weber State history and No. 5 all-time in the Big Sky Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the resources that I have, I\u2019ve got an opportunity to be able to create for the program, while they\u2019re in the program and even after the program, it\u2019s something I\u2019m excited about,\u201d Lillard added. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to doing that work, looking forward to continue to lift up the university, lift up the program. It\u2019s going to be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new arrangement with Weber State continues an eventful offseason for Lillard, who had his contract waived and stretched<\/a> by Milwaukee after suffering a torn Achilles in the playoffs. He wound up returning<\/a> to the Trail Blazers<\/strong> on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n

Stephen Curry<\/a><\/strong> started the trend<\/a> of active players helping to run college basketball programs in March when he became an assistant GM at Davidson. Since then, Trae Young<\/a><\/strong> (Oklahoma), Terance Mann<\/a><\/strong> (Florida State) and Patty Mills<\/a><\/strong> (Hawai\u2019i) have accepted similar positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard is the latest NBA player to take a management role with his alma mater, announcing Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,23229,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-114607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-damian-lillard","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114962686525435701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}