Nine-time All-Star Damian Lillard returns to Rip City on a three-year, $42 million deal, making a homecoming to the team that drafted him and where he spent the first 11 years of his illustrious career.

Damian Lillard is going back to the place he never wanted to leave.

It appears Damian Lillard is back where he started. Lillard signed a 3-year deal worth $42 million to return to the Portland Trail Blazers, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday.