Into the deadly serious NBA playoffs, DeMar DeRozan injects a bit of levity.
Trying to explain the mystifying fact that his Toronto Raptors have been chronically slow starters, the all-star guard likened his team to a recalcitrant old automobile.
“You ever have an old Regal?” DeRozan wondered on Monday afternoon. “You’ve got to start up and sit there for a while before you pull off, and you go on a little road trip but once you get going, your car feels like a 2016 Lexus or something.
“I think that’s just kind of our problem.