DeMar DeRozan becomes the 26th player to reach 26,000 career points.
DeRozan passing a ton of your favorite legends on the scoring list when he hangs it up.
ABA careers are factored in. Strictly NBA careers it be 23 players.
Flawed player on the basketball court to be sure but I think every team he’s played on has had some memorable moments with him. Really feels impossible to not love the guy.
I agree. He’s created a special career. It sucks this year is wasted with the Kings.
I love this guy fuck the haters
Seeing Lowry talk abt getting his jersey retired in Toronto had me thinking “oh then Demar should get his retired too.” But I forgot he wasn’t on that championship team :(
They retired VC’s jersey they’re 100% gonna retire Derozan’s.
As a Gen Z Torontonian I can say DeRozan has had far greater of an impact on my friends and I than VC. He was everyone’s favourite athlete in the city growing up.
I’m not so sure, Carter was more of a league wide phenomenon when he was a raptor but hey I’m all for it if they do
DeMar did way more as a Raptor and it’s genuinely not even close
More playoff wins
More playoff appearances
More winning in the regular season overall with multiple 50+ win season - including the franchise record of 59 games (Vince only ever got as high as 48 with us and one of those playoff appearances didn’t even feature him in the late season turnaround nor the postseason)
First ever Conference Finals appearance, something Vince never did in his career overall
Leader all-time in points score, among other franchise records
Always loyal to the team & fans
Fuck whatever nonsense Drake said about “tearing down his jersey if it ever goes up”, 10 and 7 both belong in the rafter
still does not mean demar is more league known than carter. nowhere close if thats what you are replying to
I’m replying to the notion that it’s unclear they’ll retire his jersey (Which leaguewide stuff doesn’t normally doesn’t factor into that. The Wizards didn’t retire Jordan’s jersey, Bulls didn’t retire Wade’s jersey etc.)
He’s absolutely getting it retired and it’s not a question
One promising sign is that no one has worn #10 on the raptors since DeMar left in 2018
100% man
We will, DeRozan is as loved as it gets in Toronto.
Cult hero
Good chance to hit 30k
I think that would get him in the HOF even if he hasn’t had any better accolades.
He’s definitely getting in. Not as a 1st ballot. But he’ll get in
Outside chance I’d say, he’d have to hang around until at least 40 yo. And sustain production through at least next year.
Can’t really see him getting more than 1000pts/ season after next year. Possible though!
say what you want about him but his durability+longevity scoring wise has been impressive
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Damn there’s a lot of people who hate Demar. It so random lol
There’s not a single hater comment in this thread lol…