Appearing on the JD Bunkis Podcast on Sportsnet 590 The Fan on Tuesday, DeRozan was asked if he would like to finish his career as a Raptor. “You always want a poetic ending (in) that way,” he said. “Granted, most people don’t get to write their own ending. But what a better ending than being able to end where you start. Not just end, by just putting up the jersey. It has to be in a sense of me still being myself. “I wouldn’t want to come back and be (Hakeem) Olajuwon (who finished his Hall of Fame career as a Raptor for one season with hugely diminished numbers). It has to just make sense. You kind of want to go out like you came in. That’s what people kind of remember you as.”
Source: SportsNet
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Sacramento Kings rotation chart
There were already a lot of mouths to feed in starting lineup before DeMar DeRozan replaced Harrison Barnes. Injury recovery to Kevin Huerter and Devin Carter put Jordan McLaughlin in an elevated role with Mitchell gone.
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Sacramento Kings rotation chart
There were already a lot of mouths to feed in starting lineup before DeMar DeRozan replaced Harrison Barnes. Injury recovery to Kevin Huerter and Devin Carter put Jordan McLaughlin in an elevated role with Mitchell gone.
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DeMar DeRozan: “It was a different time when my dad was really struggling. There were so many times where there were certain games where Pop would come to me and ask me something, and he’d tell me after the game, ‘Just go home. We have shootaround in two days. You don’t have to be at shootaround; just be ready for the game.’ There were so many games I had in San Antonio where, in between games, I wasn’t there. I was tending to my dad. He allowed me to do that with no distraction, no nothing. He told me I didn’t have to worry about the media. And it was the coolest thing because there were so many moments I cherished with my dad during that time that Pop allowed me to do it with no issue at all.” -via YouTube / September 17, 2024
DeMar DeRozan: “In a lot of ways, I always was screaming out for help, and even with the tweet back in 2018, that was me kind of screaming out for help. Everybody always just thought I was always fine, upbeat, like everything was always smooth with me all the time. And, you know, I think I had just hit my breaking point. I hit a wall. And that’s what led me to be where we are today. So, this book is extremely emotional and tells a lot about my childhood. I wanted to express that more than anything, especially still playing, showing things in real life, in real-time because I’m still going through a lot of stuff that I went through when I wrote the book. There are still a lot of things I’m going through that I’m still trying to figure out and be better in, but for the most part, I just wanted to be an open book.” -via YouTube / September 17, 2024
DeMar DeRozan: “I remember getting trophies as a young kid. I’d be so excited to go home and put the trophy up, and he’d be like, ‘Nah, this whole row’s got to be filled with trophies.’ Enjoy that one trophy, but it just made me feel like I got to do more. I got to work more. I got to be better. I got to be better because he never wanted me to have that in my subconscious—that I did enough. Not even just with sports; he did it with life. I think that’s why, to this day, I try to be very respectful to others. I try to be a positive light. I try to be all these things because my dad used to teach these things to me more than anything.” -via YouTube / September 17, 2024