NBA star Damian Lillard, a co-owner of a Toyota dealership that opened in Oregon final month, is providing to assist eating places on the town which might be having a tricky time coping with a brand new spherical of restrictions in response to surging circumstances of COVID-19.

Lillard, who performs for the Portland Path Blazers, invited each restaurant in McMinnville, Ore., to promote the dealership a $100 reward card.

“We’ll take the playing cards from all of the superb institutions and donate them to an area nonprofit to allow them to distribute them to households in want this vacation season,” he wrote from the Instagram account of Damian Lillard Toyota in McMinnville.

Oregon’s governor instituted a statewide freeze via Wednesday, Dec. 2, on indoor and outside eating, leisure venues and gymnasiums.

Lillard took over a Toyota dealership about 35 miles southwest of Portland with accomplice Brian Sanders, an skilled dealership supervisor who additionally heads a charity known as A Working Household’s Christmas.

The dealership has pingpong tables and basketball hoops within the showroom and serves custom-designed doughnuts to honor Lillard’s “0” jersey quantity. Staff put on Lillard’s “Dame” line of Adidas footwear.

Prospects who be a part of the shop’s VIP membership get most well-liked entry to Lillard appearances, and he plans to ask 40 random clients to be his visitor at a Path Blazers recreation annually.