You may be currently thinking what I thought — gone are the years of watching the Raptors’ criminally underrated superstar rank beneath guys such as Khris Middleton and Robert Covington. We all knew what they didn’t, and despite chance after chance on the national stage to prove his naysayers wrong, DeMar DeRozan failed to deliver the performances that we all took for granted. Until he was traded.
And now he’s playing in San Antonio, ranked 30th in Sports Illustrated’s latest ranking of the top 100 players in the NBA. But, for all the dominating performances he showed Toronto, he’s not our worry anymore.