data-mm-id=”_w6kmb8yiz”>Damian Lillard put his stamp on Game 1 of the Lakers-Blazers series by hitting a shot from 35 feet. It was a warning of what was to come as the superstar put his team on his back and fended off the title favorites for a victory. And that, friends, may have been the last positive coda on Portland's season. Because since then, all LeBron James & Co. have done is beat the living snot out of their inferior opponents and served notice to the rest of the world that any championship will run through purple-and-gold-lined streets. Los Angeles' Game 4 rout was immediate and efficient. It should have come with a parental guidance trigger warning as things were far more out of hand than the final 20-point margin suggests. As if the thorough ass-kicking wasn&#…