No Toronto Raptor knows Dwane Casey better than DeMar DeRozan does because they have been together since the day Casey got the job. They have lost together and won together, celebrated together and commiserated together, lived through the hard times believing that good times would come.
And, to hear DeRozan tell it, Casey is exactly the same guy today as he was in June 2011 when he became the eighth coach in franchise history.
“Case is Case, man; he hasn’t changed one little bit,” DeRozan says of the 60-year-old head coach. “Still wears sweatsuits, still wears the Seattle Seahawks shirt under his Raptors gear.