Following a complicated two-year tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks, Damian Lillard is finally heading back home to the Portland Trail Blazers. Lillard injured his Achilles late in the season, thus leading the Bucks to make the controversial decision to waive-and-stretch him.

Cutting through all the goodwill and excitement, what will Lillard’s reappearance really mean for the Blazers, though? That question has been asked multiple times in the Blazer’s Edge Mailbag. We’ll tackle it today.

Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard detailed the mental aspect of recovering from a torn Achilles.