During college, Damian Lillard married his sweetheart.
While attending Weber State University in Utah, the future NBA player met his future wife, Kay’la Hanson. He played with the Portland Trailblazers for 11 seasons before being moved to the Milwaukee Bucks in 2023. They dated for over a decade before getting married in 2021.
The point guard, playing off his nickname “Dаme Time,” posted photographs from the wedding to Instagram with the hashtag #ItsAboutDameTime.
In a 2022 video for GQ, Lillard addressed the topic of marriage while answering fan questions.
“It meant a lot to me,” he said of his wedding, even though he hadn’t always seen the point of marriage. To put it simply, “I’m cool with [the status quo].” He went on to sаy that Hanson and the three kids they had together are “the people that I can’t live without.”
In 2018, Lillard and Hanson became parents for the first time to a son, Damian Jr. Kalii and Kali, their identical twins, were born in 2021, only a few months before the couple tied the knot.
This is everything you need to know about NBA player Damian Lillard’s wife, Kay’la Hanson.
They first connected during their collegiate years.
They met as students at Utah’s Weber State University and quickly developed a romantic relationship. Even though he dropped out of college to try to make it into the 2012 NBA draft, he kept studying and earned a degree in professional sales in 2015. They sаy Hanson attended nursing school.
I knew Kay’La was the one a long time ago,” he told Ebony in 2021. When we were in school together, she looked out for me. She provided me with a car and a place to live and went out of her way to help me. As a young guy, Kay’La loved me despite my many defects.
She’s the boss at a nail spa.
Hanson is an entrepreneur despite having a degree in nursing. They opened Dipped Nails, a nail salon in the Portland area, in 2019. Their business partner is Brittney Coleman.
According to what Coleman shared with the Lake Oswego Review, “we are suρer excited” about the new business. We were on our way to the farmers market and thought, “This is great!”
