DeMar DeRozan believes Toronto Raptors' title would have happened without Kawhi Leonard trade Via Mike_Ganter
DeRozan believes — and we’re not going to argue with the man — that championship would have happened whether Masai Ujiri pulled the plug on the deal that sent DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl and a first-round pick to San Antonio for Leonard and Danny Green.
There’s no question that James’ presence in the Cleveland lineup had been the biggest impediment for the Raptors’ path out of the East to that point. With James in the West on a rebuilding Lakers team, Smith suggested the Raptors with DeRozan and without Leonard, and with Dwane Casey still running the show, Toronto would have won a title.Article content
“It sucks that we couldn’t see what happened,” DeRozan began. “With me still being there, it changes the whole dynamic and everything. But I definitely felt that way. I congratulated all those guys for winning that championship; every guy that I played with. That country, that city, they deserved it.”
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