MINNEAPOLIS – DeMar DeRozan grew up in Compton playing basketball in a park with a very simple rule:
“You want to go home with your ball? You’re going to fight to make sure that you play with your ball, and you take your ball home,’’ DeRozan said.
By the time the embarrassing 150-126 loss to the Timberwolves game came to an end Sunday night, forget leaving without their ball. DeRozan and the Bulls were leaving without pride, dignity, and anything that resembled any sort of fight left in them, continuing to sink in mud with no solid ground in sight.