He’s expected to decline the player option on the final season of his four-year, $38 million contract and become a free agent. The Raptors gave the Cleveland Cavaliers a better fight than most anticipated, pushing the veteran squad to six games in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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“My mindset has always been Toronto”. I always preached it. I was passionate about it when we was losing. I said I was going to stick through this whole thing, and I want to be that guy who brings this organization to where it is now.
The Raptors can pay DeRozan a lot more than any other team, because of the rules of the collective bargaining agreement.
“I don’t even remember tweeting it, but I meant that”, DeRozan said.
The future of the two-time all-star and team’s leading scorer looms large over the Raptors as they head into the off-season. The decision period, Lowry remembers, was “a fun stress”. The backcourt tandem of DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry can be considered one of the best duo in the league. This time, he doesn’t expect any stress.
Coach Dwane Casey said that is the challenge ahead of this team. And then I have to figure it out, we have to figure it out, what we do.
Toronto Raptors center Bismack Biyombo. They’d survived elimination twice, beating both IN and Miami IN seven games. “Starting or not starting, it doesn’t matter”. The only thing appealing to me is the things I’ve done in this organization and the things that can be done here.
Stotts also coached this season with a team option left on his contract and led the Blazers to the second round of the playoffs.
“I don’t think so”, he said.
“It’s not a serious concern, but its a concern”, he said. That team was disciplined.
Los Angeles Lakers is looking for a star who will carry over the team after Laker legend Kobe Bryant retired. As for the Raptors’ plans in regards to DeRozan, it’s sounding abundantly clear that he is the top priority for them in the offseason. “Throughout the summer, when you really look back on things or you get asked about certain situations that happened, you’ll start to realize, ‘Damn, we really did something'”.
DeRozan finished with 20 points. The Cleveland Cavaliers won 113-87 and advanced to the NBA Finals.
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Demar Derozan, in his post game interviews right after their season ended, stressed he loves Toronto and wants to be a Raptors lifer. Since the Lakers are set to have a multitude of room underneath the rising salary cap and need a star player while the 26-year-old guar hits the market and will likely demand a a max contract while also being a native of Compton, it seemed like a natural assumption to make.
