It’s July 18, 2018. Maybe you know the date? DeMar DeRozan is just leaving a screening of The Equalizer 2 in his hometown of Los Angeles and picking up some food when he gets a call he never could have fathomed a moment earlier: that he has been traded from the Toronto Raptors to the San Antonio Spurs.
He may have never quite considered himself untouchable, but in his mind he had been all the Raptors had ever asked for: a star who wanted to be there and help bring glory to a beleaguered franchise that had only won one playoffs before and was all too used to its stars jumping ship in their prime.