{"id":778400,"date":"2018-06-26T23:14:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T03:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=778400"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:30:08","slug":"damian-lillard-gave-away-sneakers-from-the-back-of-a-u-haul-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/damian-lillard-gave-away-sneakers-from-the-back-of-a-u-haul-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard Gave Away Sneakers From the Back Of a U-Haul Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to give back to Portland, Blazers All-Star guard <strong>Damian Lillard<\/strong> held a sneaker giveaway for local youth on Monday. This was no normal sneaker giveaway though as Lillard announced it himself via his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dame_Lillard\/status\/1011423053178273793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a> and then drove the U-Haul truck that was carrying the kicks to Portland&#8217;s Irving Park.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, Lillard actually drove a U-Haul to his sneaker giveaway.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Maybe the best part of this: Dame drove the U-Haul himself! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ky2rqNAWr7\">pic.twitter.com\/Ky2rqNAWr7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_gluck\/status\/1011448811971989504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As you would expect, Lillard quickly ran out of sneakers but he then signed countless autographs and interacted with the large group of kids from the back of the truck.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He ran out of shoes to give away so now he\u2019s just signing autographs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4LWqalmF16\">pic.twitter.com\/4LWqalmF16<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_gluck\/status\/1011445358742814720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DameLoveTheKids?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DameLoveTheKids<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jim6RJC0qa\">pic.twitter.com\/Jim6RJC0qa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Portland Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trailblazers\/status\/1011462287893417984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lillard may have finished fourth overall in MVP voting but in Portland, he&#8217;s clearly the real MVP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to give back to Portland, Blazers All-Star guard Damian Lillard held a sneaker giveaway for local youth on Monday.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":778402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1204837],"tags":[1225462,1231869,1211937,1142],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Damian Lillard Gave Away Sneakers From the Back Of a U-Haul Truck | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where to buy Damian Lillard Gave Away Sneakers From the Back Of a U-Haul Truck shoes. 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