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Bulls vet DeMar DeRozan gets out-Fox-ed for Clutch Player of the Year

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De’Aaron Fox beat out DeMar DeRozan and Jimmy Butler for NBA Clutch Player of the Year.

It was a nickname that DeMar DeRozan not only embraced last season, but rightfully earned.

“The King in the Fourth’’ finished second to only Joel Embiid in clutch scoring in the 2021-22 campaign, but in the last two minutes of games in which the score was within five points either way, no one was better as the veteran Bulls forward scored 85 points in those situations and shot 53.8% from the field.

DeRozan was the definition of clutch.