After being sold from the Portland Trailblazers to the Milwaukee Bucks, NBA All-Star Damian Lillard reportedly filed for divorce from his wife of two years, Kay’La Hanson, a week later.
Lillard, 33, filed in Clackamas County Circuit Court, according to Willamette Week, citing “irreconcilable differences” in the relationship that led to “the irremediable breakdown of their marriage.”
The divorce lawsuit states that Hanson, 31, moved out of the family’s Portland home in Dec. 2022, while the NBA star remained to live at the house, according Willamette Week.
Ten years after meeting at Utah’s Weber State University, on September 4, 2021, the happy couple tied the knot in Santa Barbara.
They have three kids together: 5-year-old son Damian Jr. and 2-year-old twin girls named Kalii and Kali.PEOPLE has asked Lillard and her lawyer, Shawn Menashe, to comment on the situation.
Lillard was sent to the Bucks on September 27, a week before the transaction that rocked the NBA and involving three different franchises. Following the deal, the Bucks organization held a welcome rally for him, which the player and his wife both attended. Hanson notably missed out on all the fun.Lillard said that he proposed to Hanson during the 2020 NBA All-Star weekend in an interview with Ebony published January 2021. Without her knowledge, I secretly brought my entire family and hers to Chicago. I told her we were going to an NBA event for Valentine’s Day that was brand new this year. We showed up to the venue where I had a wall full of roses decorated with ‘Will You Marry Me?’ ” he explained, adding that he got down on one knee to pop the question. After that, “everyone from both of our families came together to help us celebrate.”The wedding took place in an outdoor setting on September 4, 2021, in Montecito, California. Lillard said to Ebony, “The minute she started walking down the aisle towards me, I felt even more overcome with love.”
NBA stars Draymond Green, Bradley Beal, and CJ McCollum were in attendance, as were musical legends Snoop Dogg and Common, who both gave performances at the after-party.