Lillard is truly amazing.
Based on some of the posts on this thread, I'm going to give the "new NBA" another try and start watching a few games. To be fair, I pretty much always watch the finals, and sometimes the conference championship series depending on who is playing.
I'll get back to you about whether I think the NBA is back to as good as it was when I used to watch Jerry West and the Lakers take on the Celtics back in the day.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust