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Can DeMar DeRozan Change Our Views on Mental Health?

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Six years ago, a simple 3am tweet from All-star DeMar DeRozan inadvertently kicked off a new conversation about mental health in the NBA. And in the years since, he's embraced his role as a mental health advocate. Now, DeMar has launched a new web series, titled Dinners with DeMar featuring some of the likes of Draymond Green, Dwyane Wade, and Damian Lillard opening up about their own internal struggles. So today, our Jamal Collier takes us inside DeMar DeRozan's mental health journey, and how he's helping players around the league to up their game by elevating and advancing their minds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jamal, welcome to the program.

0:02.8

Please do tell me about this scene you witnessed in Los Angeles

0:05.8

at the University of Southern California last month.

0:08.8

Well, Clinton, it was two days after the NBA All-Star game.

0:13.6

And actually back in Chicago, the Bulls

0:15.6

are holding their first practice after the break.

0:18.9

But Demartre Rosen is not there. He is back in LA, back at USC, his alma mater, and students are filing in on

0:32.1

on campus to see DeMar not talk about basketball or play basketball or do anything really, you know, specifically basketball related.

0:40.0

It's to launch his new digital YouTube series, Diners with DeMar, a series that focuses on mental health.

0:49.0

Inspiration to others that it's okay to go through things to be vulnerable to break down be okay with

0:55.1

figuring yourself out speaking to other people being vulnerable to other people.

1:00.6

Based on your anecdotal view,

1:03.4

were most of them students, how many of them look like you, me, or DeMarr?

1:08.1

I would say probably a majority were student athletes

1:11.5

or just, you know, at least students of some kind.

1:13.2

Definitely a lot of young black faces in the crowd but these were people who

1:18.1

seem to all be eagerly filing in and eager to see what the discussion was going to be that day.

1:25.0

He leads a panel discussion with two of the student athletes, two basketball players,

1:31.0

one for the men's team, and one from the women's team from USC.

1:35.0

Damara is very clearly nervous on stage at this point.

1:38.6

I mean, this is, it's funny because it's for a guy who has taken last second shots, who's playing the

1:44.7

NBA for years, he can just tell he's a little bit out of his element. He's

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