It’s funny how relationships develop, funny and impossible to predict and the perfect local case in point is one of the great Toronto sports friendships of the modern era.
DeMar DeRozan was a quiet kid from California who saw an opportunity to make his lifelong mark on the Raptors franchise as he began his NBA career.
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Kyle Lowry was a somewhat recalcitrant veteran from Philadelphia, hardened by the business of basketball and figuring he’d do his two years of penance in Toronto and move on somewhere else.