This isn’t anything important or revolutionary, I just wanted to share this.
The reason why I wanted to point out this part in DeMar’s book is because that moment he described was the moment that made me a DeMar DeRozan fan and Raptors fan by extension.
I remember watching this game as a 15-year old in 2017 – I was alone at home and someone had left the living room TV on and the Raptors-Knicks games was playing. That year, I was planning on getting into watching the NBA, since my brother had bought NBA 2K17. Mind you, I had no idea who was on the roster at the time; I knew some household names like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James and some former Raptors such as Chris Bosh and Rudy Gay, but no clue who anyone playing was. So when DeMar hit that fadeaway game-winner on Derrick Rose and skipped down the court with a smug look on his face, I vividly remember saying to myself “This guy’s good. I’m gonna follow this guy.”
This one moment had a big impact on my life thereafter. From that moment on, I decided DeMar was gonna be my GOAT. What Michael Jordan was to Kobe Bryant, and what Kobe was to DeMar, DeMar was that for me. It’s because of Deebo that I do small things, like wear silicone wristbands and primarily hooping in Kobe’s to bigger things like how I view mental health, making me comfortable with my own struggles (I had low self-confidence and poor self-esteem in high school) and why I even started playing basketball.
I know this is probably insignificant to 99.999999% of Raptors fans, I just thought it would be cool to share that, in what was a life-altering moment for me is mentioned in my favourite player’s memoir.
by J-x-3
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I was at that game. There was a loud mouth Knicks fan sitting behind us who shit talked our team and country the entire game. When Demar hit that dagger we let him hear it lol. Great times.
the 4th quarter comeback era raps were majestic to watch. We the fourth
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vp9blG0Ub0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vp9blG0Ub0)
His book looks amazing to read from this page alone.
This is awesome man and glad you and Demar share the memory. I too share this moment, my wife, then gf were actually at this game in NY, visiting on a vacation centred around going to MSG for the first time. Glad to read about it in Demar’s book, thanks for posting.
im serious, 16 year old me saw this and immediately started practicing this specific move in the gym, i get theres a segment of fans that have kinda turned on him in recent years but demar was my goat growing up, his dunk contest clips were insane