DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry are best of friends, fellow all-stars and Olympians. But DeRozan says the two Raptors had no relationship in their first year together in Toronto.
DeRozan was drafted by the Raptors in the first round (ninth overall) in 2009. Lowry was traded from Houston to Toronto in 2012.
“I don’t think I’ve ever said this publicly but he will tell you. My first year with Kyle, me and Kyle didn’t say a word to one another, we didn’t speak,” DeRozan told ESPN basketball reporter Adrian Wojnarowski on the Woj Pod. “We didn’t have a conversation, we didn’t hang out, we didn’t go eat, we didn’t sit next to each another.