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DeMar DeRozan: The MVP Candidate Fueling the Chicago Bulls

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The most surprising MVP candidate in the NBA this season basically spent a dozen years hiding in plain sight: DeMar DeRozan of the Chicago Bulls. Remembered by many as being the player on the other end of the Raptors’ Kawhi Leonard trade, DeRozan is having his best season yet at age 32. Now playing for the upstart Chicago Bulls, DeRozan isn’t just leading the 1st place team in the Eastern Conference: he’s feeding into a championship hunger that dates back to Michael Jordan and the 90s. Bulls beat writer Jamal Collier sat down with DeRozan, and he joins the show to share his story, and tells us what the mood is like in Chicago now that the Bulls are back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jamal Collier, where does this story begin?

0:10.4

Pablo, it's just a little over a week ago.

0:12.8

The Bulls had just beat Orlando Magic.

0:14.7

They'd won their eighth game in a row.

0:17.4

And Demar de Rosen was just really pissed.

0:19.8

Jamal Collier covers the Chicago Bulls for ESPN.

0:22.6

He went back to the locker room, just upset at his performance at a free throw line.

0:27.6

He missed a few down the stretch for the chance to close the game.

0:30.6

In the first half, when I missed a couple, I was like irritated as shit.

0:35.6

Then the second half and the way the game ended, I was just already frustrated.

0:42.6

Billy Donovan's addressing the team postgame, and Damar's already made up his mind.

0:46.3

He's going back out to the court.

0:48.0

He's going to shoot free throws.

0:51.2

Now, he grabs a player development coach for the Bulls to go out and shoot with him.

0:55.0

And somebody on his way out, they remind him, hey, there's a block cost game the next night.

0:58.7

They're flipping the court, United Center, from a basketball arena to a hockey rink.

1:03.8

I told one of the coaches, like, I'm going to go out and shoot free throws.

1:06.9

It was like, man, they're taking them the floor.

1:08.4

I said, well, I'm going shoot until, if I got to,

1:11.1

until all the floor are going.

1:13.8

And DeMarre's just like, you know what?

1:15.2

I'm going to shoot until the floor is gone.

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