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Damian Lillard's nearest neighbors form a dense, tightly packed cluster — the top 10 scores span only 0.9629 to 0.9476, a range of less than two points — with no single entity pulling far ahead of the rest.
The composition of that cluster is where the real story sits. Six of the top 10 neighbors are fellow athletes: Jamal Crawford (0.96), Kevin Durant (0.96), Dwight Howard (0.96), Allen Iverson (0.95), Chris Paul (0.95), and Stephen Curry (0.95) — all NBA players. The remaining four break from that pattern in a consistent direction: NBA on ESPN (0.95) and NBA TV (0.95) are TV channels, NBA on TNT (0.95) is a TV show, and Ballislife.com (0.95) is a website. Every non-athlete in the top 10 is a basketball media property. The cross-kind presence here isn't random — it's a coherent second layer of the same sport, just in broadcast and digital form rather than player form.
What's notably absent from the top 10 is any musician, comedian, or TV personality, despite those subcategories appearing prominently further down the broader neighbor set. The top 10 stays tightly within basketball — players and the channels that cover them — suggesting an audience whose shape is defined almost entirely by the sport itself.
