“It was a little bit scary,” Lillard said on Friday. “I think I’ve had a couple of surgeries in my career. I’ve had things I’ve had to deal with, you know, with an ankle or a knee, Achilles, calf, whatever it might be. But those are all things that you go to rehab, you deal with it like that, like an athlete would. “I’m thinking that’s what I was going into, and then you see a blood clot. Obviously, that’s a thing that can affect your life.”