Another era of Spurs basketball is over, if the past three years even count as one. I’m not sure what classifies something as epochal beyond the amount of time that slowly passes and how it differs from what came before it, but I’m not pressed to define these last few seasons for their uncharacteristic lack of winning and the faces and names most associated with it. Anyway, DeMar DeRozan is now a Bull.
No Spurs fan was calling for DeRozan back in 2018 and, to be fair, he didn’t ask to be one, either. The move from his adopted home north of the border was collateral damage, the result of another star’s power play that left three parties—team, fanbase and the newly displaced DeRozan—trying to find new footing.