Damian Lillard stays plenty busy in his offseasons and 2021 is no exception, as the Blazers All-Star guard joined Team USA for the Olympics as they won gold and, while in Tokyo, he debuted his first track off of his upcoming album.

In addition to continued on-court work and advancing his music career, Lillard also looks to use his offseasons to give back. Lillard’s Visionary Academy, launched last year as part of the adidas Dame 7 release, is in its second year of working with student-athletes at 27 high school basketball programs (boy’s and girl’s) in L.A., New York, and Chicago. The program provides six players (three boys and three girls) selected from those schools with a local, paid internship each year, working with adidas, SLAM, Modern Notoriety, and In The Lab to work on sports media and digital marketing projects — with the help of an adidas basketball staffer as a mentor for each.