This is hard to wrap one’s head around.
DeMar DeRozan, who arrived in Toronto as a quiet teenager from Compton and grew into one of the great and beloved icons of the Raptors franchise, is now the oldest player on an emerging, youthful Chicago Bulls team.
The 32-year-old often played an old man’s game — footwork and savvy, a lethal mid-range game everyone knows he has but one that teams to this day can’t stop consistently — but to actually be the old man?
That’s an entirely hard thing for many to comprehend.