But DeRozan loves this city and this franchise, and re-signing with the Raptors has not always been a sure thing. In the end, there was no better option for the Raptors than DeMar DeRozan. “And for me, to be second all-time scoring, the most wins as a Raptor, that’s something — you might not see it now, but that’s a legacy. All season, the loudest screaming pulpit-holder at ESPN would bellow that DeRozan wanted to be a Laker, he wanted to go home, and it was just so much empty air, dissipating into the sky. “I never seen someone do something and said I want to do it that way,” DeRozan said at the end of the year, after the entire playoff opera was in the books.

Source: thestar July 01, 2016 11:26 UTC